Thursday, December 6, 2018

The Term Border Is Fairly Comprehensive (1903)

Lewis F. Day, Pattern Design : A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy, Planning, & Evolution of Repeated Ornament (London: B.T. Batsford, 1903), 220.

Monday, December 3, 2018

The Kiln at Dale Was Situated Just Outside the Abbey Gate-House (1890)

John Ward. “Notes on Encaustic Tiles, Dell Abbey and Morely, Derbyshire.” The Reliquary Quarterly 4 (Jan.–Oct. 1890): 220.

Sunday, December 2, 2018

Thus the Child Learns Measuring and Its Value in Designing (1912)

Austin Craig, “Stick Laying,” Primer of Industry (New York: World Book Company, 1912), 17.

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Every Part of a Room Has Its Possibilities for Beauty (1901)

Chesire Lowton Boone, “Clay Working in the School,” Year Book of the Council of Supervisors of the Manual Arts Volume 5 (Worster, Mass.: The Davis Press, 1901) 70.

Friday, November 30, 2018

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Livestock Marks & Brands (1902)

Van Dersal's Stock Growers Directory of Marks and Brands for the State of North Dakota, 1902: comprising an alphabetical list of names of all live stock companies and individual live stock raisers, showing the recorded marks and brands of each one as they appear on the books of the state recorder of marks and brands : a complete directory of all the recorded brands in the state : also a complete classified directory of sheep and wool growers as compiled from the tax list of the various counties (Bismarck: Sam’l Van Dersal, 1902), 197.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

As a Man Signs His Name to Every Letter He Sends out, so the Baker Puts His Mark on Every Loaf of Bread He Makes (1612, 1901)

Emil Braun, The Baker’s Book: A Practical Hand Book of the Baking Industry in All Countries, Volume 1 (New York City: Emil Braun, 1901), 17.

Friday, June 8, 2018

Rosette Designs for Wood Carving (1883)

Ben Pitman, “Rosette Designs for Wood Carving,” The Art Amateur 9 (September 1883): 81.

Friday, March 9, 2018

A Designer of Outstanding Originality Is the Designer Who Can See Much in Nature (1914)

“The Editorial Point of View: Design in Teaching,” “Plate 5: Six Interpretations of a Composite Flower,” School Arts 13 (April 1914): 562

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Based upon the Pentagon Which the Student Should Contruct from Memory (1912)

Edith Cary Hammond, Industrial Drawing for Girls: Design Principles Applied to Dress (New York: Redfield Brothers, Inc., 1912), 33.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Far from Being Alarmed at His Sight, Beauty Was Delighted (1858)

J.R. Plancé “Beauty and the Beast,” Four and Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected from those of Perrault, and Other Popular Writers (London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858), 272.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

“Men Are Deceivers Ever, Aren’t They Miss Noakes?” “How Should I Know Child,” She Replied Rather Curtly (1891)

Elizabeth W. Champney, Witch Winnie’s Mystery: Or, The Old Oak Cabinet:The Story of a King's Daughter (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1891), 290.

Friday, February 16, 2018

He Told Her of the Errand on Which He Had Come (1905)

“Rabbi Phil,” Illustration by Sydney Cowell, The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 196.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Curly-Locks Hardly Knew What to Make of It (1905)

Millicent Burbridge, “Curly Locks: A Story for Young and Old,” The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 1301.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Let’s Waste No Time on the Outskirts of Friendship (1916)

Mary Heaton Vorse, “The Judgement of the Thortons,” Illustration by W.S. Corrow, The Century 92 (May 1916): 87.

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Coasting (1898)

A.B Frost, “Some Bicycle Pictures” Scribner’s Magazine 23 (May 1898): 607

Friday, February 9, 2018

“Tom,” Whispered Mrs Nichols, “Here Is an Occasion for the Display of Moral Courage to Serve as a Pendant to Your Physical Bravery of the Morning. Cheer Up.”

Robert Grant, “In Fly-Time,” Illustration by C.D. Gibson, The Bachelor’s Christmas and Other Stories,” (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 142.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

The Proposal (1891)

Frank R. Stockton, “The Squirrel Inn—V,” The Century 42 (September 1891): 702.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

I Do Not Want to Go, Mamma (1880)

“This Is the Way, Walk Ye in It,” Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 48 (December 1880): 690.

Monday, February 5, 2018

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Burly Felt a Pleasant Shock as Her Eyes Met His (1913)

Julian Street, “At Liberty,” Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, Everybody’s Magazine 28 (January 1913): 51.

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Figurines of a Male and a Female Personage from the Walpi Flute Altar (1894)

Jesse Walter Fewkes, “The Walpi Flute Observations,” The Journal of American Folklore 7 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894), 287, plate 1.

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Here Are Two Marbles for Eyes (1906)


Clarence Franklin Carroll and Sarah Catherine Brooks, The Brooks Primer (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906), 63.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Pioneer (1888)

“Wonders and Beauties,” Chicago: an Instructive and Entertaining History of a Wonderful City with a Useful Stranger's Guide  (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1888),  183.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

The First Snowfall (1931)

“The First Snowfall,” From an etching by Charles W. Dahlgreen, The Rotarian 39 (December 1931): 4.

Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Indian Dog Train Was Used When the Snow Was Too Deep or Too Soft to Uphold Horses (1915)

Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, Together with a Narrative of the Human Experiences and Changing Social Conditions That Accompanied This Economic Conquest of the Continent  (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), 54.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Jan Went Through the Ice into the Black Water (1918)

Howard R. Garis,  The Curlytops Snowed In or Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds, Illustration by Julia Greene (New York: Cupples and Leon Company, 1918), 108.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

The Snow Has Drifted over Their House till Only a Tiny Mound Appears (1903)

Dallas Lore Sharp, “Mus’Rattin’,” A Watcher in the Woods, Illustration by Bruce Horsfall (New York: The Century Co., 1901), 43.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Then, Wearily and Drearily / Across the Moorland Wild, / Half Numb’d With Frost (Her Pathway Lost) / Paced on the Wilder’d Child (1855)

Jane Krewdsen, “Katie Lee: A Scotch Story,” Aunt Jane’s Verses for Children (Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1855), 12.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

In the Sketch Below, the Different Degrees of Distance Have Been Well Expressed (1905)

Hugo B. Froelich and Bonnie E. Snow, “The World in White,” Text Books of Art Education, Book VI (New York: The Prang Educational Company, 1905), 8.