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  • Announcement: Turner Picture Studies and Picture Study Prints

    Announcement: Turner Picture Studies and Picture Study Prints

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    One order form entitled Announcement: Turner Picture Studies and Picture Study Prints, published by Horace K. Turner Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1910. This 4-page form (1 sheet folded to create a 4-page leaflet) organizes images for sale by school grade, from Grade 1 through "Fourth Year High." The last page is the actual order form, with a printed date of "190_". A pencil ms. note at the bottom of the last page reads "1935". This form was laid into a catalog entitled Turner Art Catalogue, HEH RB# 603411.

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  • Picture Studies for School Use

    Picture Studies for School Use

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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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  • Adult Life Enrichment, State University Extension Class: This Changing World of Ours

    Adult Life Enrichment, State University Extension Class: This Changing World of Ours

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    One flyer entitled Adult Life Enrichment, State University Extension Class: This Changing World of Ours, published by Massachusetts Department of Education, Division of University Extension, Boston, Massachusetts. It is Vol. XIII, Whole No. 22, October 21, 1940. This 6-page leaflet is an advertisement for an extension course offered November 1940-January 1941. The dates of each lecture and brief, illustrated biographical sketches of each of the speakers are given. A typed mailing address is printed on the first page: "Jennie V. Ruth, 1 Marchant St., Gloucester, Mass 4B-25".

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  • Official Register of Harvard University, Harvard Summer School: An Unusual Program for Teachers of Art

    Official Register of Harvard University, Harvard Summer School: An Unusual Program for Teachers of Art

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    One flyer entitled Official Register of Harvard University, Harvard Summer School: An Unusual Program for Teachers of Art, Vol. XXXVIII, April 4, 1941, No. 15, published by Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941. This 8-page brochure is an advertisement for a program offered by Harvard Summer School. In it are listed the courses offered, a description of the art workshop, the staff, facilities, social life, fees and credits, and an address to write for further information. Accompanying this brochure is a business reply postcard to subscribe to the Official Register of Harvard University. Also accompanying this leaflet is a mailing envelope addressed to "Miss Mabel Spofford, Supervisor of Drawing, Public Schools, Gloucester, Mass."

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  • Easy Pictures for Slate Drawing

    Easy Pictures for Slate Drawing

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    One drawing book/leaflet entitled Easy Pictures for Slate Drawing, published by Lyon Manufacturing Co., New York, ca. 1860. This item is a promotional advertisement for several products: Lyon's Magnetic Insect Powder; Mexican Mustang Liniment; Hagan's Magnolia Balm; Plantation Bitters and Lyon's Kathairon. On one side of this 10-page accordian-folded leaflet there are 5 advertisements (four of which with woodcut illustrations); the other side consists of the front cover (printed in red, black and white) and four "pages" of white-on-black illustrations, made to look like slate drawings. The images for copying include domestic and farm animals. All of the pages are unnumbered. "4-" (price) is written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

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  • Pretty Picture Drawing Book

    Pretty Picture Drawing Book

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    One drawing book/manufacturer's advertisement entitled Pretty Picture Drawing Book, published by M. F. Tobin, Publishers, New York, ca. 1910. This is a promotional advertisement for Besse, Bryant & Co., Clothiers, Hatters, Furnishers of Worcester, Massachusetts. The book is comprised of 6 leaves of lithograph illustrations, which are various images of children playing outdoors and with toys. There are leaves of tracing paper bound in between each image; some of the images have been traced onto the tracing paper. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a young boy in a blue suit, holding a pug dog in his lap. The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, are textual advertisements for Besse, Bryant & Co. "M.F. Tobin, Publisher, N.Y." is printed at the bottom of the front cover. "$5-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the inside of the front cover.

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