San Diego Normal School student's binder of manuscript notes, construction examples & Milton Bradley samples, ca. 1913-1917 (incl. 1913 Kindergarten Supplies catalog)

Half-size cloth notebook binder with material for Manual Arts Training compiled by Gladys Sloan (b.1892), a student at the San Diego State Normal School. Contains reference material for teaching clay, basketry, and cardboard construction. Fifteen example cardboard cutouts are mounted to the pages such that they can still be folded into their intended shapes, including various boxes, wall pockets, and a toothpick holder. The manuscript notes include several bibliographies of manual arts reference books, with a few additional notes on the dramatic arts and play.  The binder also contains rare Milton Bradley sample materials: including bullseye construction paper, plain drawing papers, and 5 swatch tags for jute, raphia, carpet warp, macramé and rug yarn samples. A full 1913 Kindergarten Supplies catalog is mounted at the back. A loosely inserted five-page syllabus for a basket-making course taught by Nell K. Wills during the 1917 UCSD summer session instructs students to maintain a cache