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(Gus)
    • Creator: Prospect School and Center for Education and Research
    • Date Created: 2008-09-11
    • Description: (Gus’) original collection in the Archive spans 8 years, 1972-1980, ages 5 years and 4 months to 13 years and 4 months. The full collection contains 870 items, which are reproduced on microfiche in the Reference Edition. Houses and dwellings are prominent in (Gus’) work, often elaborated with strong color applied in contiguous blocks or patterns ofstripes or grids, with variations in chimneys and other elements that indicate the form is a structure for variation. Ghosts, monsters, robots, and vehicles appear in his work, although with inattention or ambiguity as to setting or narrative. He experiments with ways of using visual media to represent invisible forces in physics and spirit. In pictures and stories, sports and popular culture are a motif. In stories, as well as in visual work, there can be a shift from the particular and present, to a more ambiguous space/time. An implied largeness is worked, as it were meditatively, through ordered repetition and variation of color or elements. Number, pattern, and color are important and serve as means of relationship, though relationship may also be conveyed by, for example, a tree leaning into another. The largeness and general absence of story or continuous action evoke a sense of archetypal forms or ideas and of incipience, beginning, or promise. Non-figurative work is particularly abundant at ages 8-9, 10-11, and 12-13. The quantity of visual work falls off in the last two years of the collection, but suggests involvement with large ideas of space, time, and spirit. His production of writing increases somewhat. In writing and in visual works, he explores themes of world citizenry and personal self-determination. His writing style remains lean, spare.
    • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work


    (Mick)
      • Creator: Prospect School and Center for Education and Research
      • Date Created: 2008-09-11
      • Description: (Mick’s) original collection in the Archive spans eight years, 1975-1983, ages five to thirteen. The full collection contains 2,511 items, which are reproduced on microfiche in the Reference Edition. (Mick’s) persisting preferences include multiple fields of action covering vast expanses, sometimes covering both sides of a large sheet of newsprint; overviews, often with huge sky and tiny figures; and cross-sectional views depicting actions on the surface of the water and below; in writing, stories may be told from two perspectives. Gesture and intensity is depicted in energetic activity with favored motifs being sports and physical activity including kickball, skiers, motorcyclists, soldiers, Vikings, explosions, bursts, and swirls of brilliant color. Action often exceeds the boundaries of the page and ground lines tend to be omitted. In counterpoint, there is a penchant for precision and detail as in maps, diagrams, football grids, insignia, uniforms, and equipment. In play with this attention to detail is an emphasis on practice in both visual and written work. Vikings have a storehouse for their supplies and practice their swordplay. (Mick) himself practices forms and shapes that serve multiple purposes: an extended “v” shape, upright or on its side used for the legs of kicks and the prow of a ship. Ships, houses, and trees recur across the collection. Writing about animals introduces most directly an element of sweetness that can be inferred elsewhere. Humor, verbal play, visual jokes, and verbal facility span the collection. Later works, especially landscape paintings, have a lyricism not visible earlier. Writing as a preferred medium takes off at age nine, producing adventure stories, drama, and descriptive writing.
      • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work


      1. Ants in His Pants
        • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-
        • Date Created: 1998
        • Description: This collection includes 111 color cartoon images from the book Ants in His Pants. Giangreco, M. F. (1998). Ants in his pants: Absurdities and realities of special education. Corwin. (out of print, 2019).
        • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education


        2. Flying by the Seat of Your Pants
          • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-
          • Date Created: 1999
          • Description: This collection includes 105 color cartoon images from Flying by the Seat of Your Pants.
          • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education


          Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1900
            • Date Created: 1900
            • Description: The 1900 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. There are also maps of two areas located outside Burlington, Queen City Park in the town of South Burlington and Dr. W. Seward Webb's farm in Shelburne.
            • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont


            Fire Insurance Maps of Essex Junction, Vermont
              • Creator: Sanborn Map Company
              • Date Created: 1894-1922
              • Description: This collection contains large-scale maps of Essex Junction, Vermont produced by the Sanborn Company from 1894-1922 to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The fire insurance maps provide a detailed record of the village’s development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The village of Essex Junction was located at the intersection of major east-west and north-south roads and the junction of six railroads. The insurance maps show the residences, businesses, industries, public buildings, churches and rail yard in the village center. They also include industrial and power generation facilities located south of the village on the Winooski River. The colored 21 x 25 inch sheets show building footprints, construction methods and materials, size and number of floors, and uses. They also indicate streets, railroads and trolley lines, property boundaries, street numbers, water systems and fire hydrants. Each map set includes a detailed key that lists the symbols used to indicate building features. The 1910 and 1922 sets include an index sheet showing the mapped area and sheet numbers, a list of streets and addresses, and a “specials index” of businesses and organizations. 1928 and 1962 insurance maps for Essex Junction and Essex Center are available in UVM Special Collections. More information about Sanborn fire insurance maps is available here - http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/sanborn/
              • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont


              Fire Insurance Maps of Essex Junction, Vermont, 1922
                • Date Created: 1922
                • Description: The 1922 fire insurance maps sheets for Essex Junction, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map Company to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. Maps provide expanded coverage of residential areas in the village and show a concentration of industrial enterprises in the village along the railroad tracks, shifting away from the Winooski River where an electric generating plant was located.
                • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Essex Junction, Vermont


                Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont, 1899
                  • Creator: Sanborn Map Company
                  • Date Created: 1899
                  • Description: The 1899 fire insurance map sheet for the central part of the village of Richmond, Vermont was produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. An inset shows the Vermont Condensed Milk plant.
                  • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont


                  Fire Insurance Maps of St. Albans, Vermont, 1884
                    • Creator: Sanborn Map Company
                    • Date Created: 1884
                    • Description: The 1884 fire insurance map sheets for the village of St. Albans, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The maps record the extensive railroad facilities west of Main Street, manufacturing and industrial enterprises located nearby, the city’s commercial center along Main Street, and the churches, courthouse and academy located east of Taylor Park. The maps also include residences in the central section of St. Albans.
                    • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of St. Albans, Vermont


                    Fire Insurance Maps of St. Albans, Vermont, 1901
                      • Creator: Sanborn Map Company
                      • Date Created: 1901
                      • Description: The 1901 fire insurance map sheets for the city of St. Albans, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The maps record the extensive railroad facilities west of Main Street, manufacturing and industrial enterprises located nearby, the city’s commercial center along Main Street, and the churches, courthouse and academy located east of Taylor Park. The maps also include residences in the central section of St. Albans.
                      • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of St. Albans, Vermont