Friday, August 18, 2017

Our Place in Space (1959)


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I blogged about this back in 2009 but have gone back to re-scan it and expand on the contents.  This is one of my favorite 1950s space comics and also part of a great set of give-aways from General Electric.
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General Electric, Educational Relations Dept. Illustrated by George Roussos. Our Place in Space. Schenectady, NY: Pictorial Media, Inc. (16 p.) 25 cm. Softcover.  “General Electric Adventures in Science” series, PRD-7-2. 1959.

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Friday, August 11, 2017

Space travel: A Milliken Full Color Transparency Book (1968)


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Another beautiful classroom item. In the dark ages (1960s) classroom would use an overhead projector to show various pictures of interest. This is a book of transparencies that could be used for classroom instruction about space travel. The images are beautiful and simple.

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Space Travel. Edward Ortleb and Richard Cadice. St. Louis, Miss. : Milliken Pub. Co., 1968. "A Milliken full color transparency book" 12 overhead transparencies : color + 4 duplicating masters + notes (5 pages)

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 A special "slice" of what they thought the future would bring. 
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There was also a couple of "ditto" masters to test knowledge of the material:

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