Archive: Good & Gone

Personal photograph album and scrapbook of 1950s bodybuilder Alex Pilin

[vernacular photography, physique photos, physical culture, bodybuilding]

Major's Panorama of the Alphabet

Momberger, William [ABC, juvenile]

1892 Kindergarten Teacher's Album of Pricking and Sewing (Froebel Gifts 11 & 12)

[Froebel Gifts; Kindergarten album]

Paper Cutting (student album of kindergarten work, Froebel Gift #13)

[Froebel album, student work]

Archive of 18 manuscript weaving pattern drafts by a woman in Texas, ca. 1840-1860s

[manuscript, textiles, weaving]

Album de Pliages et de Tissages / Pliage Froebel 1792-1852

[Froebel, student work]

The Theory of Color in Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry

Bezold, Wilhelm von; Edward C. Pickering, S. R. Koehler (trans.)

San Diego Normal School student's binder of manuscript notes, construction examples & Milton Bradley samples, ca. 1913-1917 (incl. 1913 Kindergarten Supplies catalog)

Sloan, Gladys [teaching ephemera, sample books, Milton Bradley]

Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead

(Ilonka Karasz, games)

Box 13 Associates Album of Photographs and News Clippings, Cincinnati Fire Department 1930s-1950s

[firefighting, emergency response, disaster photography]

Alphabets Plain Ornamented and Illuminated: A Selection from the Best Ancient and Modern Styles, Particularly Adapted for the Use of Painters, Engravers, Marbleworkers and Illuminators

L. Prang & Co.

1871 Draughtsman's Alphabets. A Series of Plain and Ornamental Alphabets Designed especially for Engineers, Architects, Draughtsmen, Engraves, Painters &c.

Esser, Hermann

Tissage! 1916 Manuel Pratique [album of paper weaving]

[industrial arts, manual training]

故實叢書: Rekisei fukushoku kō / Thoughts on Historical Clothing (5 volumes)

Tanaka Naofusa 田中直房

Collection of 30 "Little quilt hands I made, 1931-1932"

[folk art]

Album of 50+ Froebel Gifts - paper weaving, decorative stitching, embroidery patterns

[Froebel kindergarten album]

Illustrated manuscript by a 15-year-old orphan at the Monastery of St. Claire in Aurillac, France

[manuscript, calligraphy]

Collection of 22 woven paper pockets and heart-in-hand love tokens, ca. 1927

[folk art]

Der praktische Familien-Färber: enthaltend alle gebräuchlichen Färbereien, für Wolle, Baumwolle, Leinen, Seide, Tuch, Kleidungsstücke u.f.w. Nebst einem Anhang von Rezepten für Seise, Tinte u.

Kuder, Salomon [Solomon]

GIANT PICTURE PRINTER (An ARNOLD ARNOLD Toy)

Arnold, Arnold F. [games, art education]

Progressive Architecture Manifesto [cover title: one, two, three]

Biltin Toker

Dick's Book of Alphabets Plain and Ornamental: Containing Elegant Ancient And Modern Designs For Plain And Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals And Illuminated Initial Letters For The Use Of Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen &c

[lettering, alphabets]

A young woman’s illustrated letter to her sister in a birch bark booklet

[manuscript letter]

Cours d'arpentage - 1861 Illustrated manuscript course notebook

Joseph Lafay

Alphabet & Kindergarten Building Blocks

[educational toys, alphabet blocks]

Home Economics class portfolio, household accounting and textiles

[vocational education, manual training, student work]

The Visual Instructor Creative Play Equipment [Chautauqua Industrial Art Desk]

[learning aids, education]

Crochet Lace & Tatting Album by Hazel L. Broman (1899-1982)

[textiles, sewing album]

Compositional design and color theory drawings

[made by hand]

Kokon Meibutsu Ruiju - Meibutsugire no bu

[textiles, decorative arts] Matsudaira Harusato (Fumai)

裁縫教科書渡邉辰五郎編纂 / Saihō no kyōkasho (Sewing Textbook, 3 volumes)

Tatsugoro Watanabe 渡辺辰五郎 [sewing ephemera, vocational training]

Eckels Anatomical Aid, with original chart drawings (Heirloom anatomy guides from a family of undertakers)

Eckels, H. S. [Howard Samuel]

Peter Puzzlewig's Comic Round Game of Alliteration (Alliteration; or, a Prime Plan and Merry Method of producing a Plain and Perfect Pronunciation) ABC card game

[juvenile, ABC]