One scrapbook created from a completed drawing exercise book entitled American Kindergarten Book for Designing, Drawing and Painting. Volume Third- Polygons, manufactured by Miss E.M. Coe, New York, "Originator of American Kindergarten System", not before 1876. The scrapbook is 24 unnumbered pages in length; the polygon exercises have been drawn and colored in pencil and crayon. Images and poetry, cut out from magazines and newspapers, as well as several chromolithograph images, are mounted to the pages. There is ms. writing in ink and pencil throughout. "John E. Robens, from Cousin Emily" is written in ms., in ink, at the bottom of the front cover. "75 [cents cymbol]" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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