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Summary
Title from mat.
(DLC/PP-1933:0080).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Published in: "The Creeping Man" by A. Conan Doyle, Hearst's International magazine, 43:13 (March 1923).
Tags
Date
01/01/1923
Contributors
Steele, Frederic Dorr, 1873-1944, artist
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Publication may be restricted. For information see "Cabinet of American Illustration," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/111_cai.html
