Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Search

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"He Fixed My Teeth for Nothing."

Poem for Dr. Dudley Tenney. Upper center, tuskless elephant; lower left, figure running with ivory tusks in his arms.

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"The gorilla hath taken—hath taken the hose," Illustration for and excerpt from The World's Almaniac for 1879: A Compendium of Useless and Interesting Information (p. 14, 15)

30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

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A Celebrated Artist and His Work

30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

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A Ghost

Top, short story on ghosts. Bottom; profile of ghost with hunchback facing left, at cemetery, left hand points at tombstone. Tombstone labelled, SOZODONT. Upper left, waning crescent, upper right, three scared owls facing front.

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A Letter from Bruin Polar Bear to Tommy

30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

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A Pastoral

30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

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A Pathetic Ballad

7.4 × 13.7 cm (2 15/16 × 5 3/8 in.)

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A Pirate of the Air, The Officers Menagerie, Free Lunch, Illustrations for Scribner's Monthly (XVIII, No. 5, September 1879, p. 645)

2 pp

Article clipping from Scribner's Monthly on the history on Sandy Hook. Three images. In the top illustration, a man runs after a flying bird that has stolen a piece of cloth from him. In the middle illustration, a man and woman look into a menagerie. In the bottom image, a group of pigs eat the fish caught by a fisherman, who looks on in distress.

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A Ride on an Ocean Steed

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Short story from “Archibald the Cat,” about a sailor and a young passenger stranded at sea. Center, two figures. Bottom figure, man with beard, carrying younger figure on back. Larger figure is ridding large fish with object in mouth, in the ocean.

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