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Hector "Thomas Maybank" Webb: Children's Illustrator
Hector Thomas Maybank Webb (1869-March 27, 1929) was a British children's Illustrator and artist who frequently signed his work simply as "Thomas Maybank".
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Alcohol, The Enemy of Life: A Look Into 1926 Viewpoints on Alcohol During the Prohibition and Temperance Movement
Alcohol, The Enemy of life is a historic article published in a children's encyclopedia in 1926 during the mid-point of the Prohibition.
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How Our Letters Come to Us: The History of Mail and The Post Office
This article, titled "How Our Letters Come to Us" is our very first entry from Volume 8 of the 1926 Book of Knowledge Children's Encyclopedia and gives us a fascinating look at how the postal system worked nearly 100 years ago.
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The Shut-In Society / The Vermont Sunshine Society
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Jennnie M. Drinkwater Conklin
Jennie M. Drinkwater Conklin (April 14, 1841 – April 28, 1900) was a writer born in Portland, Maine.
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James Lane Allen
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Author and Editor: An 1891 Op-Ed. on The Frustrations of Publishing by Ella Ricker
Author and Editor, an opinion article by Ella W. Ricker, talks about the frustrations of rejection as a writer in 1891.
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Forsaken, Poem by Ella W. Ricker
Forsaken is a poem by Ella W. Ricker, published in the Granite Monthly, 1883.
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Arcadia, Poem by Ella W. Ricker
Arcadia is a poem by Ella W. Ricker, published in 1885.
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Ella W. Ricker: The New England Poet The World Forgot
After stumbling across a poem by Ella Ricker in a 1923 magazine, I had to find out: Who was she? And why had I never heard of her?
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By The Sad Sea Waves, Poem by Ella W. Ricker
This is a beautiful poem by Ella W. Ricker, published in 1878.
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