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Fairy Tale Pictures

Print
1960 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This set of Fairy Tale Pictures helped children learn to read in a East London primary school in the early 1960s.
The educational publishers Macmillan & Co. produced many sets of brightly coloured classroom pictures from the 1920s, many in partnership with Ella Ruth Boyce. Popular illustrators created vivid and lively images to bring the accompanying printed books to life.
This set was found in a school cupboard in the 1980s, by which time teaching methods had moved on, and the posters were considered dated and old fashioned.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 14 parts.

  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
  • Educational Prints
TitleFairy Tale Pictures (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Colour prints on paper
Brief description
Educational Prints; Set of colour prints from the Fairy Tale Pictures series, edited by E R Boyce, printed by Macmillan & Co, England, 1960
Dimensions
  • Single print width: 53.3cm
  • Single print height: 43.2cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
Fairy Tale Pictures, edited by E.R. Boyce (At bottom left on each print.)
Credit line
Given by Nicholas Munns
Object history
These prints were used at Winsor School, East Ham, from 1961. The series had an accompanying book, also called 'Fairy Tale Pictures' which described the stories.
The donor was a teacher at this school in the mid-1980s, by which time the posters had been put in storage and considered 'far too dated'. Fellow teachers told him that the posters were used to support the Gay Way teaching scheme in the early 1960s.
Association
Summary
This set of Fairy Tale Pictures helped children learn to read in a East London primary school in the early 1960s.
The educational publishers Macmillan & Co. produced many sets of brightly coloured classroom pictures from the 1920s, many in partnership with Ella Ruth Boyce. Popular illustrators created vivid and lively images to bring the accompanying printed books to life.
This set was found in a school cupboard in the 1980s, by which time teaching methods had moved on, and the posters were considered dated and old fashioned.
Associated objects
Other number
0333000587 - ISBN
Collection
Accession number
B.402:1 to 14-2012

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Record createdFebruary 19, 2013
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