A Collection of Instructional Booklets on Slate-Pictures and Drawing for Children

1860s. Booklets with designated drawing spaces have been carefully used by children. Light to moderate wear.. A popular occupation for children in the 1860s was learning to draw from line drawn examples. We are presenting a collection of 12 booklets exemplifying this childhood occupation. All but two, are from the 1860s. They include

Four (4) fold-out promotional brochures titled "Easy Pictures for Slate Drawings" presented by Lyon Manufacturing Co. makers of cosmetics and patent medicine. They include Birds, Common Things, Varieties and Figures. Illustrations on one side and promotion on the reverse.
Three (3) versions of Slate-Pictures for the useful self-employment of young children. Two are printed by Moore & Nims. Troy NY. 1860. 16 pp. They are 00 and III. The third is a replica of 00, printed in brown and beige and without publisher information.
The Drawing card sets introduced the notion of scene and section drawing.
Coe's New Drawing Cards for Schools, No. 6. D.Appleton & Co. NY. 1860s. A series of 18 cards (animals and landscape) Card 1 including instructions are lacking.
Bartholomew's Progressive Drawing Cards No. 1. Published by Cyrus G. Cooke. Boston. Applied label to folder containing four of eight examples.
Progressive (Erasable) Drawing Tablet. Manufactured by the American Tablet Company. Boston. 1866. 8 pp. Illustration of girl drawing on cover. Examples and (erasable) spaces for drawing throughout. General instructions back cover.
Introduction of Ellipses, Curves, Arcs and other geometric elements.
White's School Series of Industrial Drawing - Free Hand No. 2 Edited by H, P. Smith. Ivison, Blakeman & Co. NY. 1878. 16 pp. With examples and space to draw. Inside covers provide instructions. Back cover promotes Spencerian Pencils and Rubber. Book has been used by Anna Haas.
Slate Drawings - Useful & Instructive. c1880. 16 pp. Another promotional piece given by Belding Bros Silk with the same format of white on black and product advertising surrounding the images, but 20 plus years after the originals. Instructions inside front cover. The largest piece. White's School Series of Industrial Drawing measures 7" x 9".