Clare Briggs Cartoon Collection : cartoons.

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Clare Briggs Cartoon Collection : cartoons.

A collection of fifty-eight cartoons with the majority donated in 1987 by the artist's family.

3 boxes : (6 linear feet)

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Briggs, Clare 1875 - 1930.

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Clare A. Briggs was an early American comic strip artist who rose to fame in 1904 with his strip A. Piker Clerk. Briggs was best known for his later comic strips "When a Feller Needs a Friend," "Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling?" and "The Days of Real Sport". While attending the University of Nebraska for two years, he studied drawing and stenography. One of his art instructors was an editor with Western Penman, where his first published drawings appeared. On July 18, 1900, he married Ruth ...

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