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'Teacher's Manual for the Prang Course in Drawing for Graded Schools, Books 1-6', by John S Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter S Perry, was published by the Prang Educational Company in Boston, New York and Chicago in 1897.

A full copy of this work can be accessed online here.

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Analysis

Paperfolding is used:

1. To construct models of a hollow cone, a cube, a square prism, a square pyramid, and a hexagonal prism from irregular templates.

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2. To construct an envelope from an irregular template

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3. To construct a Mailing Envelope from an irregular template

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4. To construct a basket from two irregular tempates

The text also refers to a 'box with a separate cover' made in a similar way.

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5. To construct a paper box - The Catherine of Cleves Box - from an irregfular template

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