Item Info

Language: English
Material: Pen and ink on paper
Transcription:

"Characters in order of appearances

1. stars; 2. sun and plants; 3. earth and moon; 4. rocks, igneous; 5.metamorphic; 6. sedimentary; 7. bacteria - fungi - ancient life; 8. mollusks - echinoderms - arthropods trilobites brachiopods; 9. cephalaphods - starfish - osteoid?; 10. sea scorpions ancestral fish - ancient land plants mosses liver worts; 11. ferns - fish; 12. amphibian - calamites etc; 13. reptiles conifers."

Media Type: Illustrations
Source: Children's Literature Research Collection
Provenance: Gift of Virginia Lee Burton, 1968.

Bibliography:

Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).

Creation Year (Single Year or Earliest Date): 1962
Image Dimensions Width: 28 cm
Call Number: BURT GREEN 1
Creator Name: Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968 - Artist