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It Took Rathbone Eight Hours to Get Back to the Helena
FES Title: “Took Rathbone 12 hours to get back to the Helena.”
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Date: 11/24/1910
Size: 34″H x 22″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Gerry, Margarita Spalding. “The Hero.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, February 1911: 218.
caption: It took Rathbone eight hours to get back to the “Helena”

Gerry, Margarita Spalding. Heart and Chart. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911: 218.
caption: It Took Rathbone Eight Hours to Get Back to the “Helena”

Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 167.
caption: It Took Rathbone Eight Hours to Get Back to the Helena

Brandywine River Museum. Frank E. Schoonover, Illustrator. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1979: 50.

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Inscription: ll: Frank E. Schoonover / ’10
Annotations: en verso on label on frame: Illustration for ‘The Hero.’/ It took Rathbone twelve hours / to get back to the “Helena” – / and he carried the youngster all / the way with his good arm. #423 / F.E. Schoonover
Exhibitions: 1979 FES (catalog)
Comments: TP 8/3/02; form 2/4/03; index; edit
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Provenance: Sold by artist to private collection (September 25, 1968)
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