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Shepherd’s Improved Transparent Slates, With Rotating Copies
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Shepherd's Improved Transparent Slates, With Rotating Copies
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One glass drawing slate manufactured by C.C. Shepherd, New Jersey, patented March 2, 1874. The glass slate is missing. Remaining is the wooden box frame and the scroll, which contains images and words for copying.
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Shepherd's Improved Transparent Slate
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One framed glass drawing slate entitled Shepherd's Improved Transparent Slates, with Rotating Copies, ca. 1874. The glass slate is contained within a wooden frame, and forms the top of a box-like apparatus. Within the box is a scroll containing images and words to trace and copy. The two ends of the scroll emerge from the right-hand side of the box. A portion of the end of the box is hinged to allow for removal (and cleaning) of the glass slate, and probable storage inside the box. Mounted to the underside of the box is an illustrated sheet which shows the use of the slate and the box. The title is printed at the top of this sheet. Directions for cleaning the glass are also given, and "Patented March 2, 1874" is printed at the bottom. Several letters, written in pencil, are still evident on the glass slate.
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Portable Slate Desk
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One stone drawing slate patented by C.C. Shepherd, ca. 1877. The slate is contained within a wooden frame, which is supported at one end by a hollow wedge, used to store rectangular slats, which function as drawing cards with white and black illustrations. On the underside of the wedge is a paper label which reads: "Portable Slate Desk." The copy is placed in a direct line of the focus of the eye, so as to enable the pupil to see the Copy, and the execution of the same. ... Patented January 1877. C.C. Shepherd." At the top of the slate are slots where the rectangular slats slide in.
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Transparent Slate
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One glass drawing slate contained within a wooden frame. A paper label mounted on the front of the frame reads Transparent Slate, ca. 1885. An additional piece of wood, with a wooden brace, holds the slate into the frame. A paper label of instructions is mounted onto the back. Accompanying the slate are 11 engraved images for copying. Some of the images include an umbrella, people dancing, an American flag, and two men smoking Virginia tobacco from long pipes. Neither a manufacturer's name nor a date are given.
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The Cross Transparent Drawing Slate
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One glass drawing slate entitled The Cross Transparent Drawing Slate: for Public Schools and all Students of Drawing, manufactured by Ginn & Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, ca. 1893. A cardstock label with directions for use is mounted behind the slate itself, which is contained within a wooden frame. "Patents. February 7th, 1893. November 14th, 1893. Patents Pending." is printed below the title.
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Slate Drawings, Useful & Instructive
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One manufacturer's advertisement book entitled Slate Drawings, Useful & Instructive, published by Belding Bros. & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1910, "compliments of Balding Bros. silk thread." This promotional piece for Balding Bros. silk thread contains 12 unnumbered pages of white-on-black illustrations designed to look like chalk drawings on slates. The inside of the front cover promotes this edition of Belding Bros. & Co.'s Drawing Book. The inside back cover contains illustrated instructions for crocheting a "four-in-hand scarf crocheted from Belding's silk." The title on the front cover is within a drawing slate frame.
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