Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album and scrapbook. The sketchbook, a string-tied leatherette album, documents a young boy's self-guided attempts to develop cartooning skills. Cut-out tutorials from Frank Webb's "How to Make Faces" are mounted on the album's early pages, with attempts in pencil to follow their instructions. Midway through, Conrad...
Dates:
1941-1944