BIB_ID
451652
Accession number
MA 23884.3
Creator
Newsome, Effie Lee, 1885-1979, author.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, the Elisabeth Ball Fund, and the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2023.
Description
1 item (26 pages) : illustrations ; 30.6 x 23 cm
Provenance
Estate Dr. James K. Hill, sold by Wechsler's, Capital collections auction, lot 52, March 10, 2023; Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, 2023.
Summary
Layout for Effie Lee Newsome's unpublished collection of children's poetry, "Child and nature, a children's reader", consisting of twenty-six pages on recycled Howard University calendar pages from 1941, with text block compositions and rough pencil sketches for illustrations by James Lesesne Wells, with notes and page references. Newsome's volume of poems, along with Wells's illustrations, was evidently intended for publication by Carter G. Woodson's The Associated Publishers in Washington, D.C.
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