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Educational toys, consisting chiefly of coping-saw problems for children in the school and the home

Petersen, Louis C · 1920 · Peoria, Manual Arts Press · 7 pictures

Educational toys by Louis C. Petersen, published in Peoria by the Manual Arts Press in 1920, is a practical handbook of coping-saw projects for children at school and at home. Its pictures pair plain black-and-white photographs of finished wooden toys, such as a deer on wheels, with simple cut-out line drawings of faces and bodies, which suggests clear, flat shapes a designer could adapt for toy or cutout graphics.

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