Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
One drawing book/manufacturer's advertisement entitled Child's Drawing Book, published by Vose & Sons Piano Co., Boston, ca. 1910. The front cover shows two girls sitting on a rug, one is holding a drawing slate, the other is drawing on a slate. The back cover image is of a child, sitting on a cliff above the ocean, painting on a canvas; above the image is printed "Piper & McIntire, 888 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire." The book, a promotional piece for the Vose Piano company, includes advertisements for the company's pianos on the inside front and back covers, and two images of Vose pianos within the book itself. Eight images in outline, along with tracing paper overlays, are present. None of the images have been filled in. The first image has been partially traced in pencil.
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One drawing book entitled Drawing Book of Butterflies, published by (compliments of) L.M. Brock & Co., Lynn, Massachusetts, ca. 1910. This drawing book is a promotional piece for Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam. It contains 8 pages of black and white images of butterflies and tracing paper in front of each page, for copying. The front and back covers are chromolithographs; the front cover features several butterflies and paint brushes, the back cover image is a little girl in a pink hat, standing next to a vase of roses. The inside front and back cover feature promotional and advertising text. Some of the images have been traced onto the tracing paper, and some of the traced and original images have been colored in with crayons.
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One drawing book entitled Little Darlings' Drawing Book, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London, ca. 1900. The chromolithograph image on the front cover shows a young girl, with a rabbit in her lap, drawing in a book; the lower-left corner bears the series title Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series. The back cover features a girl running next to a hoop. The company's trademark and "No. 3625" are in the lower left-hand corner above design and printing locations--England and Germany, respectively. The book has 16 pages of outline images, and tracing paper overlays. The images depict children at play, or are scenes from children's stories and are variously signed "MB", "EH". "M Bowley" or "Edith Taylor"; some are unsigned. Seven of the outline images have been filled in using colored pencils or crayons; others have been traced. Across the top of the front cover, the name "Miss Hazel Wheeler" has been written in pencil. Inside the front cover, also in pencil, is "Hazel Wheeler. Christmas 1904." On the back cover, in the upper right-hand corner, is a price sticker with "8--" written in ink.
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One joint drawing and tracing book entitled Drawing and Tracing Book: Boats and Houses, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1898. The cover title reads: Drawing and Tracing Book: Boats and Houses. This book is comprised of 8 lithograph plates of images for drawing and tracing. The front and back covers are chromolithographs; the front cover features a bespectacled little girl, seated at a table, painting in a coloring book. The back cover reads: "First lessons in drawing for children" and has a decorative, floral design below the words. The publisher's statement is in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover: "Copyright 1898, McLoughlin Bros. New York." The images inside the book are the same as those in Box 33, env. 03. These images have been traced in pencil and colored in with crayons. "Helen A. Bailey" is written in ms., in pencil, across the bottom of the front cover.
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One joint drawing and tracing book entitled Drawing and Tracing Book: Boats and Houses, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1898. The cover title reads: Drawing and Tracing Book. This book is comprised of 8 lithograph plates of images for tracing and drawing, with 8 leaves of tracing paper bound in. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a boy and a girl in a rowboat. Both are wearing hats, and the little boy is rowing like a gondolier. The back cover is a green and white mesh pattern. The images for tracing are of various types of boats and houses. "81" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover. None of the images have been traced or copied. "Bertie from Emily Jan. 11-1911" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the title page. "2.50" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the title page.
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One drawing book of original drawings entitled Drawing Book, created by Anna Warner in 1870. The book was manufactured by Nison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co., New York. The book is 10 leaves in length, and contains original pencil drawings, some of which are labeled. The book is bound in a yellow paper cover, and the front cover is illustrated with a lithograph scene of two men, one of whom is drawing and the other is painting. This scene is framed by large drapes held open by cherubs. Most of the pencil drawings are of building structures and houses; DK's accompanying note describes them as "formula drawings, with personal labels; 'our house'; 'our school house'." "Anna E. Warner, Batania [?] Drawing Book, N. York, Sep. 1, 1870." is written in ms. on the inside front cover and at the top of the front cover.
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