Cartoon drawings, ca. 1905-1945.

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Cartoon drawings, ca. 1905-1945.

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Pen and ink humorous cartoons drawn by Clare Victor Dwiggins and 5 caligraphic renderings of poems by August Derleth. The cartoons include original drawings (one is oversize) for the book "Oliver, the Wayward Owl" and photostats of printer's proofs of drawings, probably for the book "Bill's Diary."

38 drawings (4 folders)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924310

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Derleth, August, 1909-1971

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August William Derleth, 1909-1971, was an author. Although Derleth's literary strengths are exemplified in his nostalgic writings about the Midwestern prairies, he is best remembered for his "weird" fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. From the guide to the Derleth mss., 1958-1965, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly) American author. From the description of Typed letters signed (108) : Sauk City, Wis., to Edw...

Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 1874-1958

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Dwiggins was born in 1874 in Wilmington, OH; in 1890, began work as a cartoonist, drawing for the St. Louis post dispatch, New York journal, Philadelphia inquirer, North American and telegraph, and international syndicate; became art editor for publisher M. Walter Dunne; illustrator for Crankisms (1901), Brevities (1903), and Completed proverbs (1904), all by Lisle De Vaux Matthewman, and for Whimlets (1903) by Samuel I. Stinson; author of Rubáiyát of an egg (1905) and The skull toast book (19...