Edwin Tunis Papers 1961

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Edwin Tunis Papers 1961

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Collection contains five original black and white illustrations for the children's book, Frontier Living.

5 illustrations

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6616028

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Tunis, Edwin, 1897-1973

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Edwin Tunis was born in Cold Springs Harbor, N.Y., on Dec. 8, 1897. He studied at City College in Baltimore and the Maryland Institute of Art and Design. He served as a pilot during World War II and then returned to Maryland Institute where he worked as a furniture designer and in advertising drawing layout copy. His typographical design talent led to work for printers (brochures and direct mail material) and later to illustrating for Grosset and Dunlop and A.P. Putnam's Sons. For Maryland's Ter...