American illustrator (born 1863)

Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933.

Born

1863

September 6

Died

1935

Era

1860s

Country

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Jessie, in brief

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Key dates

1863 Born
1935 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

394 Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

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The world in 1935

When Jessie departed

april 1 India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
april 11 Stresa Front: Opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
april 14 The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
april 23 The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on September 6

Billy Rose 1899–1966 American composer and songwriter (born 1899) Christopher Brookmyre 1968– Scottish author Donna Haraway 1944– American author, academic, and activist Elvira Pagã 1920–2003 Brazilian vedette, singer, and artist (born 1920) Gilbert du Motier 1757–1834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general (born 1757) Isabelle Collin Dufresne 1935–2014 French actress (born 1935) Jane Addams 1860–1935 American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860) Joan Tower 1938– American pianist, composer, and conductor John Macleod 1876–1935 Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1863

Henry Ford 1863–1947 American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (born 1863) Bob Fitzsimmons 1863–1917 English-New Zealand boxer (died 1917) Francisco León de la Barra 1863–1939 Mexican politician and diplomat (died 1939) John Henry Wigmore 1863– American academic and jurist (died 1943) Mary Church Terrell 1863– American author and activist (died 1954) Vladimir Vernadsky 1863–1945 Russian mineralogist and chemist (born 1863) William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951 American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (died 1951)

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