A Boatload of Pictures to Color

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Description: One coloring book entitled A Boatload of Pictures to Color, illustrated by Corrine and Bill Bailey, published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, and New York, copyright 1938. The title page reads: A Boatload of Pictures drawn for you by Corinne & Bill Bailey. This is a large, novelty coloring book that is 48 unnumbered pages in length. There is a storyline of text accompanying the pictures, written as if the reader was a passenger on a cruise ship. The illustrations are of things, people, equipment and sights associated with cruises and ships. The front and back covers are a single image of a large, modern ship sailing through the water. The cover illustration is signed "Bill Bailey." The insides of the front and back covers are blank. Many of the illustrations have been colored in with crayon. "April 5, 1939, Bruce C. Tibbetts" is written in ms., in purple crayon, on the inside of the front cover.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938
Call number: ephKAEE
Creator: Korzenik, Diana (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Diana Korzenik, August 1997.; transferred from Huntington Art Reference Library, May 2000.; purchased from Mike Kaplan, October 2000.
Associated people: Korzenik, Diana, (1941-); Abbott, Jacob, (1803-1879,); Abbott, John S. C. (1805-1877,); Bartholomew, William N. (1822-1898,); Coe, Benjamin H. (1799-1883,); Coe, E. M. (1862-1944,); Cross, Anson K. (1818-1894,); Hodgman, Carolyn S., (1803?-1887,); Knudsen, Carl Wilhelm, (1882-1942,); Morgan, Lucius B., (1807-); Nutting, B. F. (1887-1969,); Sarg, Tony, (1836-1886,); Schuster, Sigismond,; Shaw, Ruth Faison,; Smith, Walter,; Spofford, Mabel,; Spofford, Mabel,; Wright, Wynna,
Associated organizations: Faber-Castell (Firm); American Crayon Company.; Binney & Smith Co.; D. Appleton and Company.; D. Lothrop & Company.; F.W. Devoe & C.T. Raynolds Company.; Eberhard Faber Pencil Company.; Ginn and Company.; Grout & Putnam.; Ivison & Phinney.; J.L. Hammett Co.; J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.; Joseph Dixon Crucible Company.; L. Prang & Co.; Little, Brown and Company.; McLoughlin Bros.; Milton Bradley & Co.; P.P. Caproni & Brother.; Prang Company.; Raphael Tuck & Sons.; Saalfield Pub. Co.; Transogram Company.; Wadsworth, Howland & Co.; Weber Costello Company.; Winsor & Newton.; Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth AG.
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