On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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May, Mary Quite Contrary
Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library
6 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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One Foot Up, the other Foot Down
Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library
7 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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The Dutch colonial house : its origin, design, modern plan and construction
Aymar Embury II, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
iv, 108 pages, [64] pages of plates : frontispiece, illus., plans. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. The country house library; a series of architectural books for the layman "Illustrated with photographs of old examples and American adaptations of the style" The genesis of the style -- Materials -- The treatment of the roof -- Doors and windows -- Plan -- The treatment of principal rooms -- Furniture and decoration. Decorated cloth cover binding illustrated with large vignette of a house, and a partial view of the lawn with two cypress trees in the fore-front. Cover illustration signed G. H. (George W. Hood) Special Collection copy from the Julian L. Peabody collection, transferred from the RISD Museum. Signed in pencil on front endpage: Julian L. Peabody, 389 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C. Peabody collection no. 459.
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Afternoon Dress of Courtuld's English Crape
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and John Redfern
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Flatware: Second Division
Reed & Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
155 pages : illustrations . At head of title: General catalog (in four divisions). "Catalog no. 47B." Includes indexes of silver patterns. "The University Press, Cambridge, Mass."-- page [156]. Case binding. Purchased from the V. Stephen Vaughan Collection.
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Hotel Sherman (Original location: Drawer 17)
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Folder contains 1 item list, 18 drawings on trace, 5 drawings on trace glued to card stock, 1 drawings on vellum, 4 drawing on paper, 5 renderings on card stock, 7 p. die lists, 2 blueprints Note: renderings are lovely!!!! folder shows sketch to finished objects nicely.
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Hotel Sherman (Original location: Drawer 17)
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Folder contains 1 item list, 18 drawings on trace, 5 drawings on trace glued to card stock, 1 drawings on vellum, 4 drawing on paper, 5 renderings on card stock, 7 p. die lists, 2 blueprints Note: renderings are lovely!!!! folder shows sketch to finished objects nicely.
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Hotel Sherman (Original location: Drawer 17)
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Folder contains 1 item list, 18 drawings on trace, 5 drawings on trace glued to card stock, 1 drawings on vellum, 4 drawing on paper, 5 renderings on card stock, 7 p. die lists, 2 blueprints Note: renderings are lovely!!!! folder shows sketch to finished objects nicely.
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Hotel Sherman (Original location: Drawer 17)
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Folder contains 1 item list, 18 drawings on trace, 5 drawings on trace glued to card stock, 1 drawings on vellum, 4 drawing on paper, 5 renderings on card stock, 7 p. die lists, 2 blueprints Note: renderings are lovely!!!! folder shows sketch to finished objects nicely.
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Hotel Sherman (Original location: Drawer 17)
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Folder contains 1 item list, 18 drawings on trace, 5 drawings on trace glued to card stock, 1 drawings on vellum, 4 drawing on paper, 5 renderings on card stock, 7 p. die lists, 2 blueprints Note: renderings are lovely!!!! folder shows sketch to finished objects nicely.
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Slater Park, Moonlight on the Lake, Pawtucket, RI
Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland ME: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Waterfront, Providence, RI
Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland ME: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Soldier's Monument, Providence, RI
National Art Views Co., NY City: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Sterling Silver Knives, Forks and Spoons
Reed & Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
48 pages : illustrations. Catalogue ; No. 34 Catalogue (Reed & Barton) ; no. 34. Includes prices. Includes index (page 48). Paper cover, stapled. Purchased from the V. Stephen Vaughan Collection.
