1916 – SELF-MADE PICTURES FOR CHILDREN, OR CUT-OUT JOURNEYS TO FAMOUS PLACES

1916 – SELF-MADE PICTURES FOR CHILDREN, OR CUT-OUT JOURNEYS TO FAMOUS PLACES – Painted and Described by C. DURAND CHAPMAN

Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. Pictorial front board, hardcover measuring about 12 inches by about 9 3/4 inches, with edge wear to boards and a few tears. An activity books that has been read, but never used by cutting out and assembling the pieces. From the instructions, “There are ten permanent pages on which are the backgrounds with stories, and ten detachable pages of cut-out parts.”

The parts, once cut out, are to be pasted to complete the pictures of these ten properties:
1 – Mount Vernon, Virginia – The home of George Washington
2 – The White House – Washington, DC
3 – Ann Hathaway’s Cottage – Shottery, Warsickshire, England
4 – Longfellow’s Home – Cambridge, Massachusetts
5 – Windsor Castle – The Home of the Kings of England
6 – Niagara Falls – USA
7 – Venice – Pearl of the Adriatic
8 – Arlington, Virginia – The Home of Custis and Lee
9 – Valley Forge, Pennsylvania – Washington’s Headquarters
10 – The United States Capital – Washington, DC

EXTREMELY UNCOMMON – PARTICULARLY IN THIS UNCUT, AND UNUSED CONDITION