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A Pirate of the Air, The Officers Menagerie, Free Lunch, Illustrations for Scribner's Monthly (XVIII, No. 5, September 1879, p. 645)

Catalog Data

Illustrator:
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924  Search this
Collector:
Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City  Search this
Publisher:
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, USA  Search this
Medium:
Printed in black ink on paper
Dimensions:
30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Type:
ephemera
Ephemera
Object Name:
Ephemera
Made in:
USA
Date:
September 1879
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Article clipping from Scribner's Monthly on the history on Sandy Hook. Three images. In the top illustration, a man runs after a flying bird that has stolen a piece of cloth from him. In the middle illustration, a man and woman look into a menagerie. In the bottom image, a group of pigs eat the fish caught by a fisherman, who looks on in distress.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
Accession Number:
1938-57-1070-51
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Data Source:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42bb21cee-7fe7-4bc8-b22d-4313f7161eea
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1938-57-1070-51