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This video was filmed in the 1990s for West Hartford Cable TV. AAS member Jane Pomeroy and children’s book collector/founder of the Northeast Children’s Literature Collection Billie M. Levy discuss the career of illustrator/engraver Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) and Anderson’s impact on nineteenth-century children’s book illustration.
Levy collected children’s books and founded the Northeast Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Connecticut. The recording was made was in the 1990s for West Hartford Cable TV.
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As an independent scholar, Pomeroy dedicated herself to researching and collecting the work of Alexander Anderson, the first engraver on wood in America.