Object details

Accession number

v.2.b.3.15

Creators

• Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (Shelbyville, Kentucky, 1870 - 1942, Louisville, Kentucky) - author
• The Century Company (active New York, 1881 - 1933) - publisher

Full title

Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch extends an open door Kentucky welcome to the nation of play goers

Creation Date

1903

Language

English

Publication Place

New York

Description

1 vol., [8] 153 [1] p., 12°

Provenance

Gift from Robert Parkman Blake (1870-1914) to Isabella Stewart Gardner at an unknown date.

Display Media

Ink on paper

Web Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

Permanent Gallery Location

Vatichino

Bibliography

Susan Sinclair and Philip B. Eppard. Catalogue of Children’s Books from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection and the Personal Libraries of John Lowell and Isabella Stewart Gardner (Boston, 1988), p. 38, no. 56.

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