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This volume, which may have belonged to a Scottish teacher, contains pencil drawings of everyday objects and notes related to instruction in art and geography.

This volume, which may have belonged to a Scottish teacher, has pebbled covers, with the title "Sketch Book" stamped in gold on the front. The first section, "Specimen course for Second Year Higher Grade," contains 6 pages of pencil drawings. The subjects include books, plants, household items, a shoe, a water tank, an umbrella, a broom, a basket, and a hand. The final page of drawings includes the note: "Complete course with interiors & outdoor work."

The second part of the volume is a 2-page chart titled "Geography. Scheme of Work," with tables of geographical subjects for students at various levels. Each month's course included the study of a country or geographical region, a "practical" subject, and a "physical" subject. The areas represented are primarily European nations; British colonies such as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India; North and South America; Asia, and Pacific islands. The teacher offered practical instruction in navigational concepts, the use and creation of maps, and surveying, and offered instruction on various geological topics such as the Earth's atmosphere, climate, and physical features such as volcanoes and glaciers.

The Elmer Neill sketchbook, dating between 1893 and 1896, contains pencil, ink, and crayon/pastel drawings likely produced as educational exercises. Also in the volume are manuscript maps of North America, South America, and Africa, as well as calligraphic drawings of birds.

The Elmer Neill sketchbook, dating between 1893 and 1896, contains pencil, ink, and crayon/pastel drawings likely produced as educational exercises. Also in the volume are manuscript maps of North America, South America, and Africa, as well as calligraphic drawings of birds. The drawings in this volume include landscapes, geometric shapes, animals, flowers, a woman outside a log house, a ship, and others. The name Elmer Neill appears once.

This volume is an educator's guide to utilizing Louis Bail's drawing charts for educating young students in the art of illustration.

This volume is an educator's guide to utilizing Louis Bail's drawing charts for educating young students in the art of illustration. The Teacher's Guide, a Key to Bail's Drawing Charts is intended to accompany a series of 20 illustrations which comprise a basic education in illustration, from understanding different types of lines to drawing from nature.

Bail wrote a general preface to his text, offering a general introduction to his system and stating his goal to "rid mankind of a large class of loungers" by producing a greater number of skilled laborers. This manuscript draft of the book contains detailed lesson plans, each accompanied by several illustrative pencil drawings providing examples of the desired products of each lesson. The system has specific goals for each grade level, and though the author recommends starting artistic education as early as possible, the book also includes comments on teaching older students.

The back of the volume also contains additional illustrations (labeled "Plate No. 1" through "Plate No. 11," the first ten in ink) and penciled designs that have been drawn or pasted in, but appear unrelated to the Teacher’s Guide.

• 1 (Charts 1-3): Dots, spacing, types of lines (vertical, horizontal, oblique, broken), right angles, triangles, and proper finger, wrist, and hand motions for drawing lines
• 2 (Charts 4-5): Inch spacing, drawing motions, dividing lines into equal parts, and drawing squares
• 3 (Charts 6-7): Inch spacing, drawing motions, more complex applications of squares and line division
• 4 (Charts 8-10): Curved lines and ellipses
• 5 (Charts 11-13): Applications of curved lines and ellipses
• 6 (Charts 14-16): Shading, drawing leaves from nature
• 7 (Charts 17-20): Simple ornamental forms, combination and repetition of curved lines, ellipses, and scrolls, embellished leaves and flowers, drawing from memory, and independent simple designs
• 8: Geometrical drawing and perspective
• 9: Drawing from natural objects, beginning with geometric solids and progressing to more complicated models; including shading and designing ornaments.

An undated petition from eighteen men requesting admittance to the first parish in Plympton, Massachusetts, appears on the first page of an otherwise empty nineteenth-century blank book produced by Tappan & Whittemore of Boston, "Wholesale dealers in School Books, School Stationery, Drawing, Letter, Writing and Fancy Paper, Envelopes of every description, Slates, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, Quills, Wafers, etc." It has printed covers with illustrations of Boys and girls fishing, boating, and flying kites on a riverbank, and "Lessons In Drawing" with sixteen various images of fruit, animals, body parts, and a house and boat.

An undated petition from eighteen men requesting admittance to the first parish in Plympton, Massachusetts, appears on the first page of an otherwise empty nineteenth-century blank book produced by Tappan & Whittemore of Boston, "Wholesale dealers in School Books, School Stationery, Drawing, Letter, Writing and Fancy Paper, Envelopes of every description, Slates, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, Quills, Wafers, &c." It has printed covers with illustrations of Boys and girls fishing, boating, and flying kites on a riverbank, and "Lessons In Drawing" with sixteen various images of fruit, animals, body parts, and a house and boat.