3 COLORING BOOK PAGES fr THE BLACK CAT MAGAZINE SHORT STORY PUBLISHING CO 1905

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3 RARE COLORING BOOK PAGES FROM THE BLACK CAT MAGAZINE; COLORING BOOK PUBLISHED BY SHORT STORY PUBLISHING CO 1905
All featuring cats….
Three coloring book pages from the publisher of The Black Cat Magazine, the legendary short story magazine.
1.  MINSTREL Apparently this image was very popular; it was the cover of the October 1896 issue The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 1.  It features the Man in the Moon.
NOTE:  IMAGE OF THE COVER OF BLACK CAT MAGAZINE IS PROVIDED FOR REFERENCE ONLY AND IS NOT PART OF THIS SALE.
2. KINDERGARTEN
3. GOOD-NIGHT
According to Wikipedia: The Black Cat (1895–1922) was an American literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts. It specialized in short stories of an "unusual" nature by authors such as Jack London, O. Henry and even Henry Miller.  The covers were illustrated by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter, the wife of the magazine’s first publisher, Herman Umbstaetter.
Apparently Herman Umbstaetter decided to capitalize on his wife’s talents and created a coloring book (c 1906) made of images Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter created for the magazine.
The frames are made of black plastic by the Nu-Dell Plastics Corp., Chicago and apparently are long ago out of business.
SIZE OF ITEM:  Frame is 8” x 10”.  I did not remove the print from the frame.
Condition:  These pages have been colored in with what looks to be colored pencil.  The middle image in the photo (Kindergarten) looks as if there is a white streak across the print:  this is only visible in the photo. The frame on the Minstrel image has a small crack in the upper left corner.
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