GRASSMOOR/ CENTRAL GIRLS' SCHOOL./ CAMPS in DERBYSHIRE./ Rowsley. 1928.
Minnie Bowen (fl.1928)
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Measurements
Drawing book - 281 mm (height); 185 mm (width), Leaflet - 206 mm (height); 132 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671374
Summary
A cardboard covered drawing book with a binding covered in brown and orange paper. The title is handwritten in black ink or paint on the front cover. The binding encloses a grey paper bound book on which is printed in black ink 'The Derby Series Drawing Book' enclosed by a foliate border with an artists palette with a picture of the 'Buck in the Park'. The book contains a number of hand drawn maps and illustrations along with hand written descriptions of days out in Derbyshire. It has thirteen pages.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by N. C. Cresswell. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the front cover of the outer binding: 'To be returned to 2./ JR Cresswell' On the front cover of the book: 'FERNWOOD,/ 60 ASHOVER ROAD,/ OLD TUPTON,/ NR. CHESTERFIELD.' On the front cover of the book: 'THE/DERBY SERIES/ Drawing/ Book/ School/ Name/ Class/ Date/ Copyright Design./The Central Educational Co. Ltd. School Supply Contractors, Derby.'
Makers and roles
Minnie Bowen (fl.1928), author Grassmoor Central Girls School , compiler