Hendrik Willem Van Loon typescript and illustrations, 1917.

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Hendrik Willem Van Loon typescript and illustrations, 1917.

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Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944) was a journalist, historian, radio personality, writer, and illustrator. He published more than fifty books in his lifetime on history for a children and adults. This collection includes a typescript for "A Short History of Discovery" (1917) with original color illustrations.

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944

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Hendrik Willem van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Holland on January 14, 1882. He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch and began working for the Associated Press in New York City, Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Warsaw. His son Henry Bowditch van Loon was born on June 22, 1907, and Gerard Willem van Loon on January 16, 1911. Hendrik van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911, and in 1913 his book THE FALL OF THE DUTCH REPU...