The Scrapbook Story of Peter and Polly
I found this old scrapbook several years ago at a sale in Jacksonville, Illinois. I barely even looked at it when I bought it. But, when I had a better chance to look it over, I discovered it had a rhyming story about two kids growing up, and is told with pictures from the 30's and earlier, and is 96 pages long. With a little research, I learned Peter and Polly were paper doll characters from the early 30's McCalls magazine and assumed this was where the author got the names.
And then, I found a Washington Post web site with a report on a book by Jessica Helfand entitled, "Scrapbooks: An American History". It shows an interesting part of her book explaining how Peter and Polly scrapbooks got their start back in the 1,800's by kids wanting to role model after their parents by cutting out pictures of furniture and people and arranging them on blank pages of a book and sometimes writing in captions telling a story as their scrapbooks unfolded. These scrapbooks, were sometimes called Peter and Polly books and were actually early romantic novels usually having the same plot. Boy meets girl (except, in the scrapbook story I found, it starts out, two babies are born on the same street), they play and go to school togather. They fall in love, and get married. Then the last page usually has them at the alter, sailing away on their honeymoon or holding their newborn baby.This scrapbook story has the same basic plot, but, this scrapbook story is told with rhymes that completely capture the mood of the pictures. There is a bottom line on one of the pages that I couldn't read all of. I only new it ended in "them". So, I showed it to several people to help me come up with a good last line , ending in, "them". By far, the best ending came from a brilliant young friend of mine who was accidently killed at a tea cup rally in Oklahoma City a few months ago. his name was Cameron Rodguis. He came up with, "Draw loved ones close and cherish them." Kind of a nice legacy really. Because, that was the kind of person Cameron was. You can see it below.
If you are interested in scrapbooks, then you will want to read Jessica Helfand's book on early American scrapbooks. If you have one of these early "Peter and Polly" scrapbooks, or any scrapbook with a story, I'd like to hear about it.
I scanned the scrapbook, and with the help of Photoshop, "fixed" the pages, which were falling apart, and replaced the orginal and sometimes hard to read, hand written rhymes, with my own text. After spending a lot of time on this project and with the help of my friend, Laura, I put it on a CD and made nice labels for it.
I will send you the complete 96 page Scrapbook Story of Peter and Polly, on CD for $5.00 plus$1.00 shiping.
Send check or money order to: Bob Hawk, 6150 Polly Ave., Naples, Fl. 34112
Or, E-mail me at: bobhawk@ascrapbookstory.com for questions or comments.
Click on the front cover below, to see the pages I have loaded. You may also see most of it on Youtube.
Black Walnut lumber For Sale
If you are looking for Black Walnut lumber of any size or amount, Email randykr@wildblue.net for prices.
Hedge Apple Seeds For Sale
Send me $5.00 to the above address for a packet of 20 Osage Orange Tree seeds. Or if you would like to start a hedge row, send $20.00 for hundred seeds.
Candle Nut Trees for sale
The Hawaiian state tree. Fast growing, hardwood, makes an excellent shade tree, which produces nuts that were used by the early Hawiians to time events by putting a row of then on the center of a palm tree leaf and lighting one end. They knew how much time elapsed, by how many nuts were used. The nuts are also used in making, jewelry and medicine. $20.00 for 2foot high trees. Larger trees available. Check the internet for more information on them.
Bali Painting For Sale
I am selling the most beautiful Bali painting in the world. The artist is Gusti Putu Sana. There are two pictures of it on the next page. I figured out from surfing the net that in the 16th century the king had a dream that his castle would be destroyed in it's present location. So he had it moved to another part of the island and this is what the natives are doing in the painting. And then, one day, I noticed who everyone was looking at and could see that it was also about the different sexual desires. The young boy and girl, are looking fondly at each other. The two older ladys staring at each other.The guy in the corner has his eye on the young boy, and who knows what is going on with the third lady and the strange little guy in front of her. I found this painting at a yard sale and had it several years before I could discover who painted it. It was signed "16 St pt Sana". I found a Mr. Chris Hill on the net who told me that the artist's name was, I Gusti Putu Sana. Mr. Hill is author of a book called "Three generations of Bali painters". he told me he knew the artist personaly, and if I would email him a picture of it, he would show it to Mr. Sana, the next time he went to Bali. I asked him to ask Mr. Sana, if I was right about what the people in the painting were doing and if it was about the different sexual desires. a few months went by and I got an email from Mr. Hill. Said he had been to visit Mr. Sana and had shown him the picture of my painting. He said Mr. Sana told him he had painted it and was glad to see it because he didn't keep records of his older paintings, and, that the people were moving the castle, but didn't comment about the sex angle I read into it. Mr. Hill also sent me a picture of Mr. Sana with his son and, a picture of a painting simular in composition but, not in style, like mine. I have seen several hundred paintings by Balinese painters of all ages and schools, including several by Gusti Putu Sana, and none of them even come close to being as nice as mine. This one has everything going for it. The people are doing something, faces are looking down, takes place at night, and, it teaches a lesson about life. I have included some pictures of it on the next window. Click on the picture below and see if you don't agree that it is the most beautiful Bali painting you have ever seen. It mea.ures 25x33 inches and is on cloth. The price is $35,000.
I also have other art for sale as shown further down, including,
MAXFIELD PARISH advertising poster, advertising Edison Madza Lamps for $6,000.
COKE cardboard sign by Sundstrum with a circus scene for $4,500.
PAUL PARROT SHOES advertising poster for $200.00.
William Heaslip lithograph "Bailing Out" ed/100. $2,000.
If you would like to see any of these last posters, email me and I'll bring them with me to the Fleamasters Flea Market in Fort Myers, Fl. It is on Martin Luther Blvd. about a mile, east off I-75. I'm in the Grand Pavillon, on the north east side. You can find anything at this flea market. There's great produce, tools, clothes, shoes, antiques, collectabes, video games, Asian art, books, candy, cars, furniture, good food and beer. The list goes on. I found a wonderful thing there. A mosquito zapper. Mosquitos don't have a chance with this thing. It looks like a tennis raquet made out of plastic and strung with electrified wire. I have had these things before and they usually worked pretty good, but not that dependable. This thing I got out here is powerful. It comes with built in, rechargeable batteries and works so well, you start wishing for more mosquitos. I beleive they could save thousands of lives in third world countries. .
Web address for sale
Buy www.deerone.com for $20,000. and get www.deerone.net for free!
ALSO
www.bobfromillinois.com OR www.bobfromflorida.com $20,000 each
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