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VOCATIONS [Cover Title - Handmade School Project Book]
VOCATIONS [Cover Title - Handmade School Project Book]
An attractive handmade book, a school project of Fay E. Ring (b. 1925) of Franklin, New Hampshire circa-1940, on the subject of labor. Part scrapbook of illustrated clippings, part original manuscript on the state of work in the United States in general and in the small city of Franklin, New Hampshire (population about 6,500 at the time) in particular. From the introduction:
"Why People Work - People work so that their brains and body can not become idle. Work amuses one, no matter what kind it be. If people get in jail for stealing something just for the sake of not working to get that article, they can learn eventually what it means to work instead of just being idle."
Brief essays on the history of work mounted to the pages include titles like "How Human Wants Have Changed" ; "Present Economic Problems" ; "Service Rendered the World by Manual Labor" ; "Effect of the Industrial Revolution too Women Workers" ; etc... Tables intricately executed in white album pen one naming more than 50 careers and their local practitioners and another listing historical inventors and inventions are a book highlight. Contents are undated and the book is not explicitly identified though we are confident in naming Ring as its maker as it was acquired alongside a separate, identified project bearing their name, grade, and date (eighth ; 1939-1940).
[RING, Fay E.] : [Scrapbooks] : [Education] : [Labor]. VOCATIONS [Cover Title - Handmade School Project Book]. [Franklin, New Hampshire]: [ca. 1940]. Approximately 13" x 10" handmade album. Multiple varieties of paper pasted over thick, lightweight boards with a stabbed string binding through two holes at upper margin. Small printed labels arranged around an elaborate cut paper title decoration to front: 'VOCATIONS.' 35 construction paper leaves. Three with manuscript print in white album pen, 10 with mounted notebook leaves with manuscript text in ink, the balance either blank or with mounted illustrated clippings notated in white album pen. Contents to rectos only, all versos blank. Mild general handling wear. A few printed labels in cover title decoration perished along with the "I" in VOCATIONS. Tiny corner creasing to several leaves at lower right. Overall sound and intact given fragile production ; about very good.
An attractive handmade book, a school project of Fay E. Ring (b. 1925) of Franklin, New Hampshire circa-1940, on the subject of labor. Part scrapbook of illustrated clippings, part original manuscript on the state of work in the United States in general and in the small city of Franklin, New Hampshire (population about 6,500 at the time) in particular. From the introduction:
"Why People Work - People work so that their brains and body can not become idle. Work amuses one, no matter what kind it be. If people get in jail for stealing something just for the sake of not working to get that article, they can learn eventually what it means to work instead of just being idle."
Brief essays on the history of work mounted to the pages include titles like "How Human Wants Have Changed" ; "Present Economic Problems" ; "Service Rendered the World by Manual Labor" ; "Effect of the Industrial Revolution too Women Workers" ; etc... Tables intricately executed in white album pen one naming more than 50 careers and their local practitioners and another listing historical inventors and inventions are a book highlight. Contents are undated and the book is not explicitly identified though we are confident in naming Ring as its maker as it was acquired alongside a separate, identified project bearing their name, grade, and date (eighth ; 1939-1940).
[RING, Fay E.] : [Scrapbooks] : [Education] : [Labor]. VOCATIONS [Cover Title - Handmade School Project Book]. [Franklin, New Hampshire]: [ca. 1940]. Approximately 13" x 10" handmade album. Multiple varieties of paper pasted over thick, lightweight boards with a stabbed string binding through two holes at upper margin. Small printed labels arranged around an elaborate cut paper title decoration to front: 'VOCATIONS.' 35 construction paper leaves. Three with manuscript print in white album pen, 10 with mounted notebook leaves with manuscript text in ink, the balance either blank or with mounted illustrated clippings notated in white album pen. Contents to rectos only, all versos blank. Mild general handling wear. A few printed labels in cover title decoration perished along with the "I" in VOCATIONS. Tiny corner creasing to several leaves at lower right. Overall sound and intact given fragile production ; about very good.