The customs officer of New York State told the farmer Van Vorst that he must pay a duty on his eggs and chickens before he could sell them in New York
Date1956
Artist
Gayle Porter Hoskins
(American painter, illustrator, and muralist, 1887–1962)
Illustration CitationYour Country's Story, by Margaret Mackey (New York: Ginn and Co., 1957 and 1961).
MediumGouache on illustration board
Dimensions9 3/16 × 8 13/16 in. (23.3 × 22.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ginn and Co., 1972
Object number1972-51
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThese illustrations appeared in a Tiegs-Adams textbook series focused on history, geography, and citizenship. Howard Pyle taught his students to imagine themselves actually living in the time and situation they were picturing. To help to do this, they collected antiques and costumes to use as props and, when those were not available, photographs, drawings, and prints of period subjects. Gayle Hoskins would have combined several such sources in these illustrations.
