How do you reckon it's goin' to sound with Uncle Jim's voice?

How do you reckon it's goin' to sound with Uncle Jim's voice?

How do you reckon it's goin' to sound with Uncle Jim's voice?

Date1898

Artist Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (American artist and illustrator, 1862–1924)

Illustration Citation"The New Organ," by Eliza Calvert Hall, in Cosmopolitan, February 1899

MediumGouache on illustration board

Dimensionssheet: 13 3/4 × 9 1/16 in. (34.9 × 23 cm)

Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987

Object number1987-145

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ClassificationsDRAWING

Label TextPeter Newell gained his reputation in the 1880s for his humorous poems and drawings in popular magazines. For this story about purchasing a new organ for a church, two ladies share anecdotes about the resulting commotion among members of the congregation.

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