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 Birds to Paint, published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio, 1910. The front cover features a parrot with a yellow head. On the back cover is a child's writing; the name "Louise" can be read. Thirty images of various birds are included, six of which have an identical color image. These color images were meant to guide the student in the use of color. The first page describes the book as: "a paint book for boys and girls which supplies sketches ready to color." Most of the images have been filled in with crayon rather than watercolor.
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One painting book entitled Animals to Paint, published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio, 1910. The front cover of the book depicts a lion family; the name "Gerald" is written in ms., in pencil in the upper left-hand corner. The book consists of twenty-four outline images. The first page describes the book as: "a paint book for boys and girls which supplies sketches ready to color." and gives instructions on the use of watercolor. There book consists of twenty-four images of various animals, six of which have an identical color image meant to guide the student in the use of color. Most of the images have been filled in with crayon rather then watercolor.
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One painting and drawing book, copyright 1955, entitled Objects to Color or Paint, published by Platt & Munk Co. This book is 12 unnumbered pages in length and is comprise of outline images to paint. The front cover is a color image of an apple against a green background. "No. 068 B, Copr. MCMLV, The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., Made in U.S.A." is printed across the bottom of the front cover. The back cover contains the last image intended for coloring. Printed on the inside of the front cover are "Practical Instructions for Coloring With Paints or Crayons." There are 14 pages (including both sides of the back cover) of color and outline images for coloring. Some of them include a clock, a bed, socks, a dress and a television. None of the images have been colored. "25" (price) is written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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One painting book and manufacturer's advertisement by O.C. Harn, entitled The Dutch Boy's Jingle Paint Book, published by National Lead Company, copyright 1921. The front cover shows Dutch Boy, carrying his paint bucket, pointing to the title of the book. The back cover features the Dutch boy trademark. The recto of the first page advises boys and girls to remember the slogan "save the surface and you save all" in order to be better prepared as adults to keep their homes "looking nice and new." The back inside cover has a long explanation "[f]or the Grown-Ups" that the book "is published also in the hope that thru [the children] we will succeed in interesting the grown-ups in surface-saving with Dutch Boy white-lead." The book contains twenty images, of which nine are color and nine are identical outline images. Each outlined image was to be filled in using the complementary color image at its side as a guide. In the center of the book are squares of watercolor with overlays of tissue paper. Some of the images have been filled in using these watercolors, others have been filled in with both watercolor and wax crayon. On the bottom edge of the back inside cover, stamped in purple ink, are the numbers "96448 ORD 1178 21."
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One painting book entitled The Artistic Painting Book, published by International Art Publishing Co., Ltd., London and New York. The book has a hole (as in a palette) cut through the upper-left hand corner. The front cover shows a young lad painting a landscape at an easel. The back cover depicts two song birds on a thorny branch with berries, overlooking a farm. The book contains 69 pages of images, both in outline and complementary color image formats. The majority of the images have no complementary color image, so presumably the student was to paint the image as instructed by a teacher or parent. The majority of the images have been filled in, using watercolor wax crayon (or colored pencil), and chalk. Many of the outlines are very light and some were traced over in pencil prior to being filled in. One image of two girls has been labeled "Elfrida" and "Beatrice" and the title page has been copied, in wax crayon or color pencil, on the inside front cover. In the upper-right corner of the title page has been written, in pencil, "6 Full Color Plates #40 amu/22--."
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One painting and drawing book entitled Little Folks' Painting and Drawing, published by Charles E. Graham & Co., New York, ca. 1900. The series title is 0701--Paint Book Series. The front cover of the book shows a little girl holding a palette of watercolors in one hand and a page of her paintings in the other. The back cover repeats the title of the book and features an image of two children asleep in a meadow and watched by four rabbits. The book contains twelve images, some printed in outline, others color printed to show color schemes. Most of the outlined images have been filled in with wax crayon. In the upper right-hand corner of the front cover in pencil is "50 [cents] 6448".
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