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Poem Pictures by Laura Case Downing - $25 (GREEN)
Mayfair Road near Rt 619
condition:
fair
size / dimensions:
7 3/4" x 5 1/4" x 3/4"
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Boston: Richard G Badger
Printed at The Gorham Press 1904, Boston, USA
137 pages
Laura Case was born August 26, 1843 in Vernon, Ohio, in Trumbull County. She was educated at Mt. Union College in Alliance, Ohio. She already excelled in poetry; she was chosen to give the Belles Lettres Oration and the faculty requested that she give it in verse.
Laura Case married Andrew Downing in 1900 in Topeka, Kansas. Immediately after the wedding, she moved to Washington, DC, where he was working for the Government Pension Office. In 1904, the Gordon Press in Boston published her poetry book "Poem Pictures," written under the name Laura Case Downing.
Both Andrew Downing and Laura Case Downing were interested in books all their lives and upon settling in Phoenix, Arizona they took an active interest in a literary organization known as the Friday Club. This group began a small library, and Andrew Downing helped to secure funding to turn this library into a larger Carnegie Library for Phoenix. Laura Case Downing had been a principal of schools for many years and a librarian, according to an article written by Etta Gifford Young in the Arizona Republican at the time of her death. It was stated in her obituary that Laura Case Downing had been in charge of the Arizona traveling libraries. She was also active in the upbuilding of the Woman's College in Phoenix, the College Club, & Woman's Relief Corps of the G.A.R.