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New ideas for work and play : what a girl can make and do / by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8160
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, Lina, author.
- Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amusements.
- Games.
- Handicraft for girls.
- Genre:
- Craft books.
- Activity books.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 391 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company.
- Other Title:
- What a girl can make and do
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.
- Contents:
- What a girl can make. What a girl can make with hammer and saw
- Possibilities of an Easter egg
- A paper Easter
- Vacation work with nature's materials
- Collections
- Original Valentines
- Vegetable animals and fruit lanterns
- Pasteboard models for a home drawing class
- Quick ink pictures
- Moving toys
- Home-made pyrotechnics
- Monotypes
- Priscilla rugs
- A peanut Noah's ark
- A flower feast
- Basket-weaving
- An "Abe" Lincoln log-cabin
- Queer things on paper and blackboard and how to put them there
- Home-made musical instruments
- What to make of empty spools
- Christmas decorations
- Christmas devices
- Picture writing and sign language
- What a girl can do. Statuary tableaux
- Witchery
- Living alphabet
- Odd gardens
- Active games
- Expensive games with little or no expense
- Basket ball
- Some of our out-door neighbors and where to look for them.
- Notes:
- Illustrated title page.
- Publisher's advertisements on 4 unnumbered pages at end, with running title: The Beard books for young people.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8160: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 1913996
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