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AUGUST BLESER, JR.
Meeting in the library.
Gouache on board. Image approximately 559x914 mm; 22x36 inches on larger board. Old
adhesive residue along margins not touching image. Signed twice by Bleser.
[500/750]
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ERNEST LEONARD BLUMENSCHEIN.
Group of 4 illustrations of steel and mine workers for stories in The Century Illustrated
Monthly Magazine. Three pen, ink, and wash illustrations and one ink title-page outline.
Various sizes, tipped to window mattes. Signed with his usual “B” within image. New
York, 1901.
[500/750]
“
The Mining of Iron By Waldon Fawcett. With Drawings by Ernest L. Blumenschein.”
Partial title-page design with lettering, scroll decoration, and two illustrations. Some glue residue
from removed segment, some soiling. 385x420 mm * “A Thousand Feet Underground in a
Hard-ore Iron-mine on Vermilion Lake” 493x206 mm. Both from the story named, in the
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Volume LXI, November, 1900 to April, 1901 *
“An Engineer — Welsh.” Portrait illustration for “The Center of the World of Steel” by
Waldon Fawcett in the June, 1901 issue. 175x115 mm * “A Hungry Brakeman Must Trot
Half a Mile in Zero Weather to ‘flag’.” Wash drawing for the story “What a Train-
Despatcher Does” by Charles de Lano Hine in the August, 1901 issue. 107x472 mm. Both
inThe Century Illustrated Monthly MagazineVolume LXII, May, 1901 to October, 1901.
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