Bird Children: The Little Playmates of the Flower Children by Elizabeth Gordon
date: label: date made
content: 1930
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content: Volland
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content: Each page of <i>Bird Children: The Little Playmates of the Flower Children</i> contains a four-line rhyming stanza that introduces a specific bird species. The color illustrations depict each bird with a child’s face and arms. The colorful, lithographed cover contains drawings of “bird” children and “flower” children on both the front and back.
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content: Elizabeth Gordon was an author of children’s literature and pioneering female journalist. She was educated in the Maine public school system and attended the University of Minnesota. Gordon contributed articles to a variety of newspapers and journals, and was editor of the Children’s Tribune, Minneapolis, from 1901-1904. She was a member of the Illinois’ Women’s Press Association and the Southern California Women’s Press Club. She authored numerous illustrated children’s books, including the popular <i> Bird Children and Flower Children</i> series.
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content: M.T. Ross was a successful American illustrator and cartoonist. He worked as a cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun during the post-World War I years. His notable children’s works include the <i> Bird Children and Flower Children</i> series which he illustrated. Ross moved to Southern California in 1926 to work for RKO and other studios as a set designer.
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content: German-born Paul Frederick Volland founded the P.F. Volland Company in Chicago in 1908. Originally intending to publish greeting cards that would compete with the European dominated industry, by 1917 Volland had transformed the company into a nine-acre plant that issued calendars, and books for adults and children. Due to Volland's vision of publishing high quality, mass-produced books, his books for children were highly successful. The publisher is best known for its <i>Raggedy Ann and Andy </i> series begun in 1918 and still in print today. Volland was forced to abandon the book business in 1934 during the Great Depression. However, Volland’s children’s books remain highly collectible due to their high quality and rarity.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: United States: Illinois, Joliet
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3049.13
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content: 2017.3049
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content: 2017.3049.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
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content: instructional materials
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content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 6 in x 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 15.24 cm x 1.27 cm