The deacon's masterpiece, or, The wonderful one-hoss shay : production material.

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The deacon's masterpiece, or, The wonderful one-hoss shay : production material.

Pencil, ink & watercolor dummy with proof taped in for text. An illustrated version of the nineteenth-century American poem about a remarkable horse carriage.

Illustrations: 1 item.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7853248

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Galdone, Paul

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Paul Galdone was born circa 1907 in Budapest, Austria- Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1921. Galdone studied art at the Art Student's League and New York School for Industrial Design . He served in World War II in the U.S. Army, Engineers. The author and illustrator of children's books also was employed as a bus boy, electrician's helper, and fur dryer, in addition to four years in the art department at Doubleday (NY). His work was awarded runner up for the Caldecott Medal ( Eve T...