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Vintage Ben Websters Career By Edwin Alger Original Art
Vintage Ben Websters Career By Edwin Alger Original Art
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  • Described By:Rachel HFA VX NMTT
  • Title:Vintage Ben Websters Career By Edwin Alger Original Cartoon Strip
  • Description: Young Ben Webster helps out an elderly neighbor. Ben Webster was an early comic adventure hero; and like many juvenile adventure heroes of the time, he was a paragon of the virtues didactic writers hoped to instill in young boys. That he had such a writer is evidenced by the name the writer, Jay Jerome Williams, chose as a pseudonym, Edwin Alger
  • Measurements:
    Total size: 22.75 x 7 in

  • Signature:N/A
  • Condition:The state of preservation of these original illustration drawings that are on average over 65 years old is quite exceptional. Very, very few have any creases, tears or losses to the paper and the ink has remained uniformly vivid thanks to the family’s dry flat storage. Given that these were working drawings from which prints were made the expected edge annotations, highlighting, inscriptions, pasted labels, tack holes, staples, glue residues and scattered corrections can be found variously on the examples as illustrated in the photographs. These all add to the authenticity and immediacy of the Wartime newsroom and pressroom atmosphere, serving to reinforce the iconic status of these rare surviving testimonies to the political illustrator’s art. In a few examples additional notations have been made in the description section of the catalogue text for significant damage
  • Provenance:The Prestigious Charles L Howard collection of comic illustration and political cartoon illustrator drawings and original art. Mr. Howard was a railway executive whose life collecting passion was assembling an example from nearly every illustrator at nearly every newspaper beginning WWI onwards to circa WWII. Many of the cartoons dealt with the railroad, trains and railway issues and many U.S. presidents appear in the drawings, other artworks include popular culture themes such as the depression, pin-ups, baseball, and soldiers at war.
  • Estimated size of package:24 x 8 x 1
  • Estimated weight of package: 1 lb Please calculate you shipping below, shipping is not included in the cost.
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    Vintage Ben Websters Career By Edwin Alger Original Art

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