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The Christy book of drawings : pictures in black and white and color

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    The Christy girl

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  • Little Wonder Pictures to Color and Draw: Easy Steps for Children in Coloring and Drawing

    Little Wonder Pictures to Color and Draw: Easy Steps for Children in Coloring and Drawing

    Visual Materials

    One boxed drawing set entitled Little Wonder Pictures to Color and Draw: Easy Steps for Children in Coloring and Drawing, copyright 1923, manufactured by the Platt & Munk Co., New York. This set is comprised of one drawing book of approximately 100 pages in length and colored crayons, all housed together in a paperboard box. The drawing book contains images for copying and coloring. Nine colored crayons are present; they have been used. The copyright date on the title page of the drawing book is 1921; the date on the top lid of the box is 1923. Some of the images within the book have been copied and colored.

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    Cotton, Robert Christie. Ledger book, 1903-08

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists primarily of essays, notes and treatises by Robert Christie Cotton (b. 1885) on various topics written during his active army service and later as editor of the U.S. Infantry Journal. It includes articles and essays on the Philippines, China, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Mexican border, and World War I, among other topics. Many of the documents are typewritten.

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  • Pretty Picture Drawing Book

    Pretty Picture Drawing Book

    Visual Materials

    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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