Fairy Tale Pictures
Print
1960 (published)
1960 (published)
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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.
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
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| Parts | This object consists of 14 parts.
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| Title | Fairy 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 |
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| Production type | Mass 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Other number | 0333000587 - ISBN |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | B.402:1 to 14-2012 |
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| Record created | February 19, 2013 |
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