Oral history.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Paste-up Dummy (stripping dummy) #490-0 #884 of Raggedy Ann and the Hoppy Toad by Johnny Gruelle (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., n.d.) Little color classics, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 13, 1978 with Mr. M.W. Hamilton in Petal, Mississippi. Hamilton was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1909 and lived in the area until his death in 1990. He worked as a mechanic, electrician and...
From the Ray Cruz Papers.; Dummy pages (pp. 17 & 20) from Judith Viorst's Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday (1978), with illustrations by Ray Cruz; 20 x 7 1/2
From the Ray Cruz Papers.; Dummy pages (p. 6-7) from Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's What Are We Going to do About Andrew (1980), with illustrations by Ray Cruz; 13 1/2 x 9
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; First two pages of hardcover "sketch dummy" from Jan Pienkowski's ABC Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (1993). 22.5" x 8" x 10"
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Pop-up dummy page featuring a phosphorescent painted skeleton which glows in the dark from Jan Pienkowski's I'm Not Scared (1997). 9.5" x 11"
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Page (p. 2) from hardcover dummy with hand-colored spreads and pasted text from Jan Pienkowski's ABC Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (1993). 22" x 6.5" x 11"
From the Flavia Gag Papers.; Flavia Gag's illustrated dummy page with printed text from Belva Norene Slate's unpublished book Ronald Raccoon [undated]. 7" x 7.5"
From the Berta and Elmer Hader Papers. Thumbnail dummy in graphite of THE BIG SNOW by Berta and Elmer Hader (New York: Macmillan, 1948). THE BIG SNOW is the winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal.
