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Babson's Bestiary
Brief verses accompany illustrations in a variety of media to describe an animal for each letter of the alphabet.
The Epsteins
Chatskel Barntovsky (1859-1941) emigrated in 1870 from Augustów, Poland, to New York and became Max Epstein in New York (An elder brother had immigrated earlier, and assumed his wife's surname of Epstein). Max married Mary Solomon in the 1870s. Among their children was Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), who studied art in France, became a British subject in 1911. Another of their children was Sylvia Epstein Press (1895-1980), a famous dress designer in New York City. Includes a major interpretive article about Sir Jacob Epstein and his sculpture by Jane F. Babson.
When Chester Lost Maybelle
This true story observes the death of a cat & its effect on the other cat. It is illustrated with drawings of the cats in the story & treats grief in terms which children can understand & express. Babson, Jane F., author-illustrator, THE NEST ON THE PORCH, ISBN 0- 940787-01-6, artist finds house finches in residence on her front porch & records their story, original drawings from the birds. Babson, Jane F., BABSON'S BESTIARY, ISBN 0-940787-02-4, an artist's ABC for children, illustrated with original graphics such as prints, drawings, photos & watercolors. An introduction to art & knowledge.
Rising Up from Indian Country
In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald’s party were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort Dearborn before returning to their villages. These events are now seen as a foundational moment in Chicago’s storied past. With Rising up from Indian Country, noted historian Ann Durkin Keating richly recount...
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
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Chicago's North Michigan Avenue
Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that soli...
To Jane and Yongxiu
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