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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
One catalog entitled Catalogue of the Perry Pictures, by Eugene Ashton Perry, published by Perry Pictures Company, Boston and Malden, Massachusetts, 1908. This catalog is 32 pages in length, and contains primarily black and white illustrations, which are images of art reproductions for sale. Reproductions are organized by category, and size and price. Laid in are several order forms and additional price sheets, as well as a mailing envelope for ordering. Accompanying this catalogue is a mailing envelope in which it was mailed; it is from the Perry Pictures Company, printed in red and black ink, and addressed, in ms., to "Miss Mabel Spofford, 8 Cherry Street, Danvers, Mass." The front cover of the catalog is decorated; the insides of the front and back covers contain the history of the Perry Pictures Company and ordering instructions.
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One price list entitled Industrial Art Materials, published by Atkinson, Mentzer & Company, Chicago and New York, ca. 1892. The double-sided price list offers items such as pencils, paper, wood blocks, colored drawing papers, and the publisher's art books. This item was laid into Illustrated Catalogue of Wadsworth, Howland & Co., 1892.
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This collection contains approximately 700 pieces of ephemera that along with more than 500 separately cataloged books form the Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education representing the evolution of art education in the United States from mainly 1800 to 1950. The collection was assembled by Massachusetts professor Diana Korzenik over a period of nearly three decades, and the ephemera is composed of instructional materials (e.g. art instruction manuals, art reproductions, drawing books, drawing cards, painting books, penmanship books, etc.), objects (e.g. boxed painting sets, drawing slates, models, drawing desks, colored pencils, crayons, paint, etc.) and non-instructional materials (e.g. promotional materials, scrapbooks, coursework by Korzenik's students, catalogs, etc.). With the exception of the Mabel Spofford archive, which she purchased as a whole, Korzenik pursued each item individually with the aim of assembling frequently overlooked and misunderstood material.
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Three price lists: one (and its duplicate) for art reproductions by the George P. Brown & Co., Beverly, Massachusetts, ca. 1924. They are entitled Brown's Famous Pictures for February, March and April and Brown's Famous Bible Pictures. The former was issued as a double-sided single sheet; the latter as a 6-page price list. All three items were laid in a Brown & Co. Catalog, HEH RB #603406. The two single-sheet price lists are illustrated with a single row of images across each side of the leaf. Below the title and images reproduction cards are listed for sale and grouped by categories, for example: Washington Pictures, Dickens Pictures, Lincoln Picture; Thanksgiving and Christmas Pictures. Brown's Famous Bible Pictures is illustrated with a single image on the first page. This publisher's price list also groups images by category: 'The Life of Christ'; 'Old Testament Pictures'; 'Christmas Pictures'; 'Easter Pictures'; 'Madonnas'; 'Miniature Bible Pictures'. An ink stamp indicated a price change. "May 1924" is written in ms., in pencil, on the first page of this list.
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Two envelopes of art reproductions ("proof sheets") of photographed examples of student art work. The "proof sheets" were mailed from James Parton Haney to Mabel Spofford; the brown paper mailing envelopes accompany each set of sheets. Env. 7 contains 18 "proof sheets"; these are photographic sheets, each containing reproduced art examples by art students. Included are images of signs, magazine covers, posters, advertisements, book covers, textiles and other items. Many of the individual art examples are signed by their creators, and most are dated 1919 or 1920. The "proof sheets" are in black and white. Env. 8 contains 12 "proof sheets" of art examples by art students. Each sheet contains several reproduced examples of work. Included are images of decorative and advertising posters for a variety of events, plays, and lectures. Most of the items are signed by their creators, and are dated 1921. The "proof sheets" are in black and white. Title supplied by cataloger.
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One price list/advertisement entitled Picture Studies for School Use, published ca. 1935-1940 by F.A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, New York. At the top of the front cover of this publisher's advertisement is "Instructor Picture Study Series." This advertisement and price list is a single sheet, folded into 6 pages. It is illustrated with black and white sample images, and is printed in black and orange. It states that reproductions are available both in miniature and in a larger format (9 3/4 in. x 12 3/4 in.), provides a list of subjects available, and categorizes some of the images into appropriate grade levels.
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