Frank Bond illustrations and signature, 1880-1885.

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Frank Bond illustrations and signature, 1880-1885.

The collection includes five original pen and ink drawings by Bond for William Lightfoot Visscher's book, Black Mammy, A Song of the Sunny South, published in 1885, the first book of poetry printed in Wyoming. Each drawing illustrates a scene of comfort from the old American South; also includes an autograph card with Bond's signature, dated January 1880.

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Bond, Frank, 1856-1940

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Frank Bond was an American illustrator, statesman, and cartographer. Born in Iowa and educated at the State University of Iowa, he moved to Wyoming, and became active in local politics, serving as a member of the first Wyoming legislature. He later moved to Washington, D.C., where he was chief clerk of the General Land Office and later worked for the United States Geographic Board. Bond was an active illustrator, painter, and ornithologist, and drew numerous maps, including an often-reproduced m...

Visscher, William Lightfoot, 1842-1924

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