DATE OF THIS ** ORIGINAL ** ITEM: 1910 Alice Sargent Johnson (1882, Staten Island, New York City - 1951, Clifton, Staten Island) was a commercial artist and illustrator. She graduated from the Art Students League in 1900. Alice was the daughter of Mary Doubleday (niece of Abner Doubleday) and Edward Sargent. Additionally, she created watercolor illustrations for magazines and books. She illustrated for Harper's Bazaar, St. Nicholas Magazine."The best-known children's authors and illustrators contributed to St. Nicholas,", according to a 2002 review on children's literature[2]. Many children's classics were first serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine. Its first runaway hit was with Little Lord Fauntleroy. Louisa May Alcott's Jo's Boys was serialized in the magazine, and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. She illustrated some early Madison Avenue ad campaigns. One ad campaign was a Victorian coloring book included with each bag of Ceresota Flour made by Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company. Thousands of books given away as a promotion. A showing of her watercolors was made in 1986 at the Staten Island Museum in St. George. The Ladies' World was a monthly periodical for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was founded in 1886, and published in New York City by S. H. Moore & Co. In the space of thirteen months, the magazine published three short stories by L. Frank Baum:
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Alice Sargent, aged nine, of Tompkinsville. was awarded a prize of a fine mahogany secretory for a very spirited pen-and-ink drawing of a festival ... the national prize was sponsored by Harpers Young People magazine
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The Ladies' World was bought by McClure Publications in 1912, and upgraded from a periodical printed on cheap newsprint to a glossier magazine with some full-color covers. It ceased publication in June 1918.
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