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Title: French Canadian monk with book
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Partly painted wood-carved figurine depicting a white-haired smiling, rubicund monk in full habit with cowl and skullcap, holding an open book in both hands while glancing slyly to his left.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-077

Title: Bedtime story
Date: 1949
Description: Glossy bone-china figure group in soft shades of pink, white, yellow, green and blue depicting a young girl and boy.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-120

Title: Mexican bishop with book
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Finely modeled, vividly painted clay figure depicting a bishop in full vestments, carrying an open book in both hands.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-067

Title: Nursemaid with book
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Glazed painted pottery figure depicting a seated nursemaid with doll-like features, wearing a lavender-colored dress, white pinafore, and pink cap, reading a book held across her lap in both hands.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-018

Title: Terrier reading
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Small wood partly painted carving depicting a terrier wearing wire spectacles reading an open book placed on a separate slant-top stand.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-005

Title: View 1
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Large glazed figure group in subdued colors depicting six children of various ages, three girls and two boys seated on a bench and one boy standing behind, all sharing the book held open on the laps of the two girls in the middle of the group.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-001a

Title: Balinese woman with scroll
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Intricately carved figure in honey-colored wood depicting a seated Balinese woman in traditional headdress and costume, reading a scroll held in both hands.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-157

Title: Page 2
Part of: Bellingham Plywood Corporation - Bellingham, Washington
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Another exterior shot of the corporate headquarters
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Related Collection: Galen Biery papers and photographs
Local Identifier: bieryscrapbook13_02plywood02

Title: Italian boy with book
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Miniature partly painted wood figurine depicting a boy in shorts and a lime-green shirt holding an open book in both arms.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-179

Title: Santa Claus
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Unglazed painted biscuit-ware porcelain figurine depicting Santa Claus seated on a chair, with his bundle of gifts by his side, smiling out at the viewer while holding a tablet or book in both hands.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-022

Title: Woman reading with baby in her lap
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Partly painted Southern States folk art wood carving depicting a seated woman wearing a full bonnet hunched over a baby held in her lap, reading an open book she holds in front of the child.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-009

Title: Beatrix Potter's Tailor of Gloucester
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Glazed painted porcelain figurine depicting Beatrix Potter's character, the Tailor of Gloucester, perched on a spool of cherry-colored twist, reading an issue of "The Tailor & Cutter" held open in both front paws.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-098

Title: Elf with book
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Lightly glazed painted pottery figure depicting a standing grinning elf wearing a pink jacket, polka-dot bow tie, and blue peaked cap, holding an open book in both hands.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-017

Title: Congolese religious figure
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Replica of Congolese sculpture depicting either a European missionary in full clerical garb or a Westernized African cleric, reading (or reading from) a book held open in both hands.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-154

Title: 1949 Construction
Date: 1949-1950
Description: ca. 1949
Digital Collection: Campus History Collection
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Campus History Collection
Local Identifier: CHC-PA_1949-0004

Title: African American preacher gesturing
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Small Southern States folk art wood carving depicting a white-haired African American preacher in a cut-away coat, bending into his sermon, gesturing actively with his left hand and holding an open book in his right.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-010

Title: Black Americana preacher
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Black Americana painted wood carving of a racially stereotyped African American preacher, wearing wire spectacles, dark cut-away and red bow tie, standing with an open book held in both hands.
Digital Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Local Identifier: Mathes1999-008

Title: 1949 Synva Nicol With Students
Date: 1949
Description: In back, standing: Patricia Schwalm; middle, head turned right: Leslie Levin; with Miss Nicol: Sharran Swaim. Published in Klipsun, 1949, p. 26
Digital Collection: Campus School Collection
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Campus School Collection
Local Identifier: CSPC_1949-0047

Title: Bellingham Plywood Corporation - Bellingham, Washington
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Undated album of photographs of the interior of Bellingham Plywood Corporation showing workers, machinery, and manufacturing processes.
Digital Collection: Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Related Collection: Galen Biery papers and photographs
Local Identifier: bieryscrapbook13_02plywood

Title: View 1
Date: 1940-1949
Description: Steel telescoping rod (convertible); expands from 98 - 210 cm.
Digital Collection: Fly Fishing Objects and Images Collection
Type of resource: three dimensional object
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Fly Fishing Objects & Images Collection
Local Identifier: FFC_2009_004a

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