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Indoor and outdoor handicraft and recreation for girls / by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8169
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, Lina, author, illustrator.
- Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, author, illustrator..
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amusements.
- Games.
- Handicraft for girls.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature.
- Activity books.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 357 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Handicraft and recreation for girls
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904
- Contents:
- Spinning
- Weaving on a home-made loom
- A ball of twine and what may be made of it
- An armful of shavings, and what to do with them
- Primitive reed curtains
- Things to make of common grasses
- Possibilities of a clothes line
- How to weave a splint basket
- Modelling in tissue-paper
- Nature study with tissue-paper
- A new race of dolls
- An indian encampment on a pastry-board
- A toy colonial kitchen with fac-simile colonial furnishings
- Little paper houses of Japan
- Some odd things in Russia
- Pottery without a potter's wheel
- Baby alligators and other things of clay
- Funny little apple toys
- Marvel pictures
- Egg games for the Easter holidays
- May day amusements
- Hallowe'en revels
- The magic cloth and what it will do
- Finger plays for little folk
- How to arrange fresh flowers
- Open air play-houses
- Keeping store
- A frolic with the roses
- A straw ride picnic
- A paper chase.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8169: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. "Her book" bookplate with no name on front pastedown. Ink inscription on front and rear free endleaves: Lena Kemp.
- OCLC:
- 361979
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