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Drawing book of original drawings created by Wynna Wright
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One drawing book of original drawings, untitled, created by Wynna Wright in 1908 and 1909. The drawing book is 38 unnumbered pages in length, and contains pencil drawings of women, a few of which have been colored with watercolor. Some of the drawings are labeled. The book is bound in gray cloth; "Wynna Wright 1908, + 1909." is written in ms., in pencil, on the front cover. "Wynna Wright, 8 years old, June 13, 1908" is written in ms. on the first page. A bookseller's label, "G.J. Esselen, Successor to Mrs. J.C. White, 19 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass." is mounted to the lower left-hand corner of the inside back cover. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Parquetry Blocks
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One set of wooden parquetry tiles entitled Parquetry Blocks, manufactured by Milton Bradley & Co., of Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1920. The set is comprised of 150 small wooden, colored blocks in a variety of shapes and a sheet of printed instructions. The sheet is illustrated with sample designs, and is labeled "4352 Parquetry Blocks." It reads, in part: "These interesting tablets are made of wood and colored in the six colors. They are also of assorted forms, the diamond and half square." The six colors of the wood tiles are red, yellow, blue, orange, green and purple. The set is housed within a paperboard box that has a colored label mounted to the top lid. Mounted to the underside of the bottom lid is a distributor's label which reads: "G.J. Esselen, Successor to Mrs. J.C. White, 19 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass." On one end of the top lid is pasted a handwritten label "Parquetry."
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Our Washington as the Artist sees It: 20 sketches of impressive beauty in the national capital, series No. 1
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One portfolio of 15 unbound images, by J. B. Himmelheber, published by Grafico, Washington, D.C., comprised of images of buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. The set of plates are laid into a brown paper portfolio that is illustrated with an image of George Washington. Some of the images included in the set are: the Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, Columbus Memorial Fountain, The White House, The National Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and the Library of Congress. A description is printed on the verso of each plate.
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Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten, 1905-1906
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One scrapbook of original artwork created by Abbie Gilbert. Written on the front cover, in ms. is Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten, 1905-1906. The scrapbook is 36 pages in length, and is covered with two pieces of heavy cardboard, and bound with yellow ribbon ties. It contains 8 examples of colored paper weaving, 8 examples of yarn sewing (pictures and designs sewn onto paper), and 13 original crayon drawings, all created by Abbie Gilbert. All of the crayon drawings are either titled or labeled, in ms., in an adult's hand. The first page contains an image of Friedrich Froebel, with a ms. label below, reading: "Friedrich Froebel. Founder of the Kindergarten." The last page contains 3 mounted Perry Pictures images. Accompanying the scrapbook is a postcard image of a kindergarten. The label on the verso reads "Bennington's experimental kindergarten, the brainchild of German educator Friedrich Froebel, uses his blocks and ideas of 'directed play' that revolutionized education. 1896."
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The Applied Arts Summer School, Chicago, Illinois
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