From the exhibition
Cynthianna Blythe
· September 5, 1909

A Sunday newspaper strip illustrated by Wallace Morgan with verse by Harry Grant Dart. The narrative follows children through a pastoral adventure—picking berries at grandmother's farm, discovering themselves lost in the woods, and being rescued by adults and a hired hand. Morgan's pen work demonstrates the visual techniques that defined early comic strips: numbered panels guiding sequential action, speech balloons containing narrative verse, and expressive line drawing that conveys motion and emotion across multiple frames. The strip exemplifies how Sunday supplements in the early 1900s combined illustration with serialized storytelling, establishing conventions that would anchor the emerging medium.
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