Papers, 1856-1994 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1856-1994 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232009246

Collection includes business contracts, correspondence with publishers, agents, etc.; fan mail; scrapbooks; published cartoons and comic strips; original artwork; Little Lulu products such as paper dolls, crayons, hair bows, mittens, etc; comic books in English and various foreign languages; early drawings including those in high school yearbooks and literary magazines; family autograph albums and Bible; motion pictures of Little Lulu Kleenex advertisements; etc.

15.5 linear ft. (16 file boxes, 5 folio boxes, 9 folio+ boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 supersize folder, 4 photograph folders, 14 motion pictures, 1 audiotape, 2 phonograph records)

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 7096728

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Thompson, Ruth Plumly, 1893-1976

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Ruth Plumly Thompson was born in Philadelphia in 1891, and died April 6, 1976. Family difficulties made her choose to work as a free-lance writer rather than attend college. As a child she had made up fairy tales for her brother and sisters and continued with that writing as an adult, editing children's pages for newspapers and magazines. Upon the death of L. Frank Baum in 1919, his publisher asked Thompson to continue writing books in the Oz series which she did for many years. Biographical Sou...

Marge, 1904-1993

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A cartoonist best known as the creator of Little Lulu, "Marge" was born Marjorie Lyman Henderson, the first of three daughters of Bertha Brown and attorney Horace Lyman Henderson. She grew up on a farm in Malvern, Penn., attended the Friends' School in West Chester, and graduated from Villa Maria Academy in 1921. She and her sisters drew throughout childhood and while still in high school she sold cartoons to the Philadelphia Ledger. An early mentor was Ruth Plumly Thompson, author ...