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 painting book entitled Happy Moments Crayon and Painting Book, published by Goldsmith Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, copyright 1926, Series Number 646. The cover illustration, signed by George Lawson AA, shows an organ grinder with his monkey, a mother and her son, and two children dancing. On inside cover is the subtitle "With many pictures of Animals[,] Children at play, Circus scenes[,] and Mother Goose". There are 47 pages of images, some of which have been color printed to demonstrate color schemes. Some images have been colored in using wax crayon, and at least one has been painted. The front cover illustration is signed "Geo. Lawson AA."
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One painting book entitled Art Studies for Little People: Landscapes, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1902. The title page reads: Object Painting Book. This book is comprised of 8 leaves of chromolithograph plates: half in full color and half in dull green and black tones, intended for coloring by the student. The front cover is a chromolithograph of a house on a hillside, and cherry trees in bloom. "Copyright 1901 by McLoughlin Bros., New York" is printed in the lower left-hand corner. The back cover is blank, except for the Mother Goose logo in the lower right-hand corner, and "No. 83 1/2" printed below it. The inside of the front cover is illustrated with a palette containing 5 colors. "Directions for Using the Colors Printed on Other Half of Cover" are printed on the inside of the back cover. The title page, which bears a different title from that on the front cover ("Object Painting Book"), is decorated with line drawings. "Copyright 1902" is printed at the bottom of the title page. The images in the book are accompanied by rhymes and poems. None of the images have been colored in.
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One painting book entitled The Dutch Boy in Story Land: A Paint Book for Girls and Boys, by O.C. Harn, published by National Lead Company, copyright 1925. The front cover shows Dutch Boy carrying his paint bucket, being greeted by Mother Goose at the head of a parade of fairy tale characters. The back cover features a hand that has made a broad brush stroke within it is the admonition "'Save the surface and you save all' Paint & Varnish." The front inside cover has the copyright information; the inside back cover bears the Dutch Boy trademark and locations of company offices in the United States. The title page shows the Dutch Boy heading into a book with the following rhyme "Into the stories you have read/ He took his famous Dutch Boy Lead,/ And all the characters were glad/ To greet the Dutch Boy Painter Lad." There are 14 images in the book, 7 in color and 7 in outline, plus the front and back-inside covers, and the title page. Each outlined image was to be filled in using the complementary color image at its side as a guide. Some of the images have been filled in using watercolor. There are four perforated tabs at the end of the book--probably where the Decorative and Protective Painting booklet, mentioned on the front cover, would have been included before its removal for use by adults.
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One joint drawing and tracing book entitled Great Big Drawing and Tracing Book, published by McLoughlin Bros., Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1928. This book is comprised of 8 leaves of illustrations for tracing, copying and coloring, and 8 leaves of tracing paper. The front and back covers are chromolithograph illustrations; the front cover features a boy drawing and a girl at play, the back cover illustration is of a seated child drawing. Above her are the words: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." "510" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover. The illustrations within this book are grouped by category, and each leaf is labeled: "Little Folks Friends (toys); Feathered Friends; Four Footed Friends; Fruits and [has been cut out]; The Farmer and the Goose (signed by Rhoda Chase); Towser and the Snow Man (also signed by Rhoda Chase); and Mothers Sewing Circle." Many of the images have been traced and colored in. "Alice Brown, Dec. 25, 1928" is written in ms., in pencil, at the top of the back cover. "Alice Brown" is written in ms., in pencil, at the top of the front cover.
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Rare Books
A collection of traditional Mother Goose nursery rhymes featuring four pages of movable illustrations
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Visual Materials
One drawing book entitled Drawing Horses, by Victor Perard, published by Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York and Chicago, copyright 1944. This book is 64 unnumbered pages in length, and provides step-by-step instructions for drawing horses and similar animals, such as mules and donkeys. All of the images are in black and white, and most pages contain at least some instructional text. The front cover is printed in brown on green paper; it features several images below the title from within the book. The imagery on the back cover is a duplicate of the front cover. "$1.00" is printed in the lower right-hand corner of the front and back covers. The inside of the front cover is blank; the inside of the back cover is a publisher's advertisement for "Pitman Art Series by Victor Perard." Laid inside the front cover are two newspaper clippings, dated 1951 and 1947 respectively.
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