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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  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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  Andrews' Slate Drawing Book

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  One drawing book entitled Andrews' Slate Drawing Book, revised by Prof. Duncan McGregor, drawings by A.F. Brooks, and published by A.H. Andrews & Co., Chicago, copyright 1878. Fourth edition. Cover title reads: Andrews' Progressive Slate Drawing Book: Containing all the pictures on Andrews Noiseless Drawing Slates, for Schools and Families. Front cover also has publication information: Chicago: A.H. Andrews & Co., 1878. Front cover has a decorative border. On the back cover is an image of a framed drawing slate which reads "Andrews Patent Noiseless Drawing Slate". A notice on the verso of the title page, in part, states that "Prof. Duncan McGregor, President of the State Normal School, Plateville, Wis." This book has 38 numbered pages, 29 of which are illustrated, and the remaining pages contain text. The first 2 and last 2 pages are blank and unnumbered. The inside back cover contains advertisements for school equipment and furniture, and an applied label for "Baker, Pratt & Co., School Furnishers, Importers, Booksellers, and Stationers, 142 & 144 Grand St., New York." The images proceed from simple to more complex.

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