Camera-ready drawing, entitled Mary Worth
date: label: date made
content: undated
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ernst, Ken
label: author
content: Saunders, John Allen
notes: label: Description
content: Mary Worth, also titled Mary Worth's Family during the early 1940s, was famously drawn by Ken Ernst and written by Allen Saunders during the 1960s-1980s. It continues to be distributed by King Features Syndicate, although with new artists and writers. The strip features the title character Mary, a former teacher and widow, in a soap-opera style storyline including the drama surrounding her apartment house neighbors. This is an original drawing of Mary Worth by Ernst.
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22500
label: catalog number
content: 22500
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: Drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: artist board (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 73.5 cm x 50.8 cm; 28 15/16 in x 20 in