Entire surface is dirty with grime and could use a complete cleaning. Spots of unknown accretion all over surface. Mild and fine cracks in paint, especially on left half of painting. Canvas is loose in TR corner, due to apparently poor stretching of ca
"Sanctioned by the Council of Public Instruction, Quebec, for the elementary and model schools, protestant and Catholic and as a general English reader in French schools"
Various cracks all over surface which appear to be pressure cracks from where the paint couldn't stretch, and cracked instead. Canvas in also loose. Frame has multiple small cracks and chips in the gild.
The Manitoba Department of Education presents : young Manitoba listens : a schedule and guide book of School Broadcasts which will be repesented in co-operation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, October-May 1956-57
The English reader : or, Pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers, designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments, and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue, with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading