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Title: Portable Slate Desk
Creator: Shepherd, C.C., manufacturer
Shepherd, C.C., publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
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Description: One stone drawing slate patented by C.C. Shepherd, ca. 1877. The slate is contained within a wooden frame, which is supported at one end by a hollow wedge, used to store rectangular slats, which function as drawing cards with white and black illustrations. On the underside of the wedge is a paper label which reads: "Portable Slate Desk." The copy is placed in a direct line of the focus of the eye, so as to enable the pupil to see the Copy, and the execution of the same. ... Patented January 1877. C.C. Shepherd." At the top of the slate are slots where the rectangular slats slide in.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 10 1/2 in. W x 7 1/4 in. H ; 26.5 cm. W x 18.5 cm. H
Identifier: Box 65
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/6888
Subject: Drawing Slates: Stone
Source: Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education Ephemera
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Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Korzenik, Diana, 1941-, former owner.

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