I stupidly didn't buy this book last month in Utah, even when I held it in my hand--and snapped a couple of cheap shots of it with my camera. But I'm trying to make up for my blogging sins, and I'll update these images with better ones as soon as I can.
Meanwhile, Gospel Lessons For Little Ones was the mid-60s edition of the nursery teacher's manual, published by the Deseret Sunday School Union."
"Wood - pine, painted cream enamel with pale green trim on legs. Portable height varied according to size of children"
It must be that self-sufficient, Mormon Pioneer spirit that just assumes everyone will be building their nursery furniture, storage, and even the blocks, from scratch. And that they'd know how to taper a table leg, round a chair top, and brace a bench without further explanation.
And here, even if no one ever uses these jpgs to make their own blocks, I want better pictures to show off these S's, which are awesome, the Mormon moderne version of an illuminated manuscript
The Mormons seem to have borrowed that Font off Frank Lloyd Wright!