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Something Pretty to Paint

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Description: One painting book entitled Something Pretty to Paint, published by Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1915. This book is comprised of 10 plates, some chromolithographs and some lithographs, of perforated cards, largely containing floral images and Biblical verse. The chromolithographs are samples, and the images in outline form are intended for coloring and sending. Each leaf of the lithograph cards is perforated along the inner edge, and each leaf is comprised of four separate cards, with perforations in between. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a girl in a pink dress holding her landscape painting. The back cover is blank. "Printed in Bavaria, 399" is printed at the bottom of the front cover and of the title page. "$4805amo/10-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1915
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Little People's Pictures Painting Book: Father Tuck's Little Artist Series

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One painting book entitled Little People's Pictures Painting Book: Father Tuck's Little Artist Series, published by Kaufmann & Strauss Co., New York, ca. 1910. This 24-page painting book is comprised of lithograph images for painting and tracing and chromolithograph plates as samples. "Father Tuck's Little Artists Series" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover. The front and back covers are chromolithographs; the image on the front cover is of a boy, seated on the floor, in front of a painting he has created. The image on the back cover is of a child's drum toy. "Instructions for Little Artists" are printed on the inside of the front cover, and more information about color is printed on the inside of the back cover. "12.50" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the inside of the front cover.

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Father Tuck's Butterfly Painting Book

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One painting book entitled Father Tuck's Butterfly Painting Book, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., ca. 1910. The front cover features six butterflies against a blue sky; the lower left corner bears the series title "Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series." The back cover features the company's trademark and "No. 3093" in the lower left-hand corner. The book has 12 pages of butterfly and moth images, some in outline, some in color. The pages are perforated to allow easy removal from the book. Many of the outline images have been painted in using watercolor.

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Pretty Pets Painting Books. Six Kinds, All Different

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One set of painting books entitled Pretty Pets Painting Books. Six Kinds, All Different, published by Saml. Grabriel Sons & Company, New York, ca. 1910. Only three of the six remain; these are Nos. 1, 4, and 6. Each of the books is 22 unnumbered pages in length (including the insides of the front and back covers), and contain a combination of outline images for coloring or painting and their color prototypes. The number of each book is printed in the lower right-hand corner of the front cover, opposite the publisher's name in the lower left-hand corner. All of the images for coloring are of children, and some of the images are repeated within each book. Most of the images in each of the three booklets have been colored, in crayon or in watercolor. The embossed ownership stamp of "Lillian F. Loveitt, 344 Preble Street, South Portland, ME" is on the front cover of each of the three books, and on some of the interior pages of booklet No. 1. Two of the three booklets also contain names of children depicted written below the image (in ms.), presumably Lillian Loveitt wrote these. The booklets are each in a protective envelope, but were originally housed in paperboard box. The lid is illustrated with an image of three children. "No. 820" is printed on a side of the box. Accompanying these three books are three additional painting books from a separate series, published by Saml. Gabriel Sons and Company entitled Kindergarten Drawing Book, Nos. 3, 4 and 5. Each of these books is 10 pages in length (including the insides of the front and back covers), and contain black and white outline images printed over graph paper, for copying and coloring. The color illustrations on each of the three front covers are against a graph paper background, as with the interior images. Each of the books also contain the embossed ownership stamp of Lillian F. Loveitt on the front cover. Each of these books has been used, to some extent.

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The Hiawatha Painting Book

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One painting book entitled The Hiawatha Painting Book, published by the Prang Company, 1913. The front cover features a Native American standing in profile before a setting sun. Twelve painted images depict scenes and illustrate the story of Hiawatha. On the back cover of the book are "helpful suggestions on the use of water color paints"; these note that "important latent talents might be discovered" if a child had access to watercolors and describe how a child might mix colors to produce the desired effect on the images printed within the book. Each page is perforated, allowing for easy removal. On the first blank pages Christmas tags and a calendar have been copied in watercolor. A short religious poem and the name "Herman W. Lane, Hampton, N.H." have been written in ms., in pencil.

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Home Painting Book

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One painting book entitled Home Painting Book, published by McLoughlin Bros., Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1930. The book is comprised of a series of double illustrations; for each set, one image is printed in color, the other is printed in outline form. The outline image was meant to be painted. On the front cover is a color illustration of two children picking flowers. A collage of colored chalk against a black background borders the principal illustration. "McLoughlin Bros. Inc., Springfield, Mass." is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover; "2044, made in USA" is printed in the right-hand corner. The back cover is blank. The endpapers are illustrated with geometric designs. Directions for using the book and mixing paint colors are on the recto of the first page. The illustrations are printed on one side of each leaf. Some of the images within the book include scenes of playing children, animals, flowers and food. Few of the images have been filled in.

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The Easy to Paint Book

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One painting book, copyright 1932, entitled The Easy to Paint Book, by Helen Schwarz, published by Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin. This book is comprised of 48 unnumbered pages of colored and black and white illustrations for painting. The front cover features an orange, white and black illustration of three children looking at a painting book. The same image appears on the back cover along with the title "The Painting Book." Printed on the inside of the front cover are "Instructions for Painting Book"; the last of which is "NEVER put your brush in your mouth." Printed at the bottom of the inside front cover: "W684. Copyright 1932 Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, Printed in U.S.A." Throughout the book, illustrations appear as pairs of colored and uncolored images. Many have been filled in with watercolor.

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