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Joe Lecroix and Dog Team
FES Title: Joe Lecroix and Dog Team
Alternate Titles: The Christmas Mail (1921, 1926); The Trail of the Far North
[1917]; “The Trail of the North” [1931]
Date: 03/11/1916
Size: 24″H x 36″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Marsh, George T. “For the Great Father.” Scribner’s Magazine, March 1917: 326.
caption: He was going he knew not where, to fight the enemies of the Great Father. -pg. 327

Marsh, George T. Toilers of the Trails. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 1921: cover.
no caption

Inscription: lr: F.E. Schoonover / ’16
Annotations: en verso on label on upper stretcher: The Society of Illustrators / Artist: Frank E. Schoonover 1616 Rodney Street / Wilmington, Del. / Title: “The Christmas Mail” / Agent: Budworth 424 W. 52nd St.
Exhibitions: 1917 WSFA; 1921 WSFA; 1926 AFA; 1931 FES
Comments: digital 8-07-06; form 8/7/06; index edit
Commentary: For commentary, see #231.
Provenance: Sold by the artist to Mr. and Mrs. Edmund N. Carpenter, Wilmington, Delaware (January 4, 1937); descended in family to private collection