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On Tue, 23 Mar 1993, Harry Rusche wrote:

> I am tagging onto this note to ask a question, particularly of George Miller,
> who is the one person likely to know the answer to my question--but I welcome
> information from anyone on the list.
>
> I am trying to gather information on Sheahan Publishers.  I have about 50
> of their cards that illustrate writers and quotations, but I have been able
> to find out little more than what I am told on the cards themselves.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Harry Rusche
> English Dept.
> Emory University


Dear Harry,

I'm not going to be much help here. M.T. Sheahan was Maurice T. Sheahan
who operated an "art novelties" store/business at 297 Congress Street in
Boston about 1908/09. He copyrighted a number of designs in the 1908-09
period but was probably just a publisher rather than an artist. Sheahan is
probably best represented through the "Sheahan's Famous People and their
Homes," "Sheahan's Famous People," a "Your Fortune" set, and a fair number
of cards connected with Lincoln. Lincoln's birth centennial was on
February 12, 1909, and Sheahan like a lot of others put out quite a few
postcards. Sheahan also did, I suspect, other ephemera. I know of a
calendar published in 1908 to commemorate the Lincoln centennial. I'd
guess that some of the designs are reprinted on the cards, although I've
never made the comparison. It seems like almost all of Sheahan's cards
were concentrated in the 1907-09 period. I don't think I have anything
else in the files, but if I stumble across anything, I'll send it along.

George Miller
English
University of Delaware