A. B. Frost Collection

(GC036)
 

Item Listing
by
Vicki Principi
 

Graphic Arts Collection
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
2004



Consists of 21 mostly humorous drawings by Frost used to illustrate stories in Scribner's Magazine between 1904 and 1917. Drawn with pen-and-ink, wash, and gouache.

Box 1 contents:
A shout of greeting surprised him; n.d.
As symbols of courtesy he used Key West cigars; n.d.
Filled their wheelbarrow; n.d.
Finding Shoolit; n.d.
Great Scott: Gallagher!!!; n.d.
He dived, in desperation, head foremost into the slough; n.d.
He had heard they wanted a boy and he wanted a place; 1894

Box 2 contents:
I should have detained him with a lunch; n.d.
I tramped the mountains till the deer wasn't afeered of me; 1884
Illustration for Soldier of the Valley; 1904
Illustration for Soldier of the Valley: Perry Thomas confronting English warrior; 1904
No answer came from the floor above; n.d.
Old soldiers outside the tavern; 1882
Ray, for poor ol' Kelly; n.d.

Box 3 contents:
Somehow or other, Truegate had turned the truck; n.d.
The mushroom barge'll hold; n.d.
They didn't need no warning after the first crash; n.d.
They has come; n.d.
Tiger in the next room; n.d.
Trailed by the lion; n.d.
Untitled [Man in boat feeding fish]; n.d.



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