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Making tin can toys

Thatcher, Edward, Thatcher, Isabel · 1919 · Philadelphia London, J. LIppincott company · 14 pictures

A 1919 Philadelphia and London instruction book by Edward and Isabel Thatcher, aimed at home craftspeople and children, explaining how to make toys from tin ccans. The pictures are plain black line drawings of tools and parts, including a file, a ringed can end, a lettered component and a dimensioned tapered strip, showing how a designer might use simple diagrammatic technical drawing with labels and measurements.

Toys

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