Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature

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276 Notes Abbreviations AR Ad Reinhardt AR Papers Ad Reinhardt Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution BD Barbara Dicks BP Records Bookstore Press Records, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs CJ Papers-ERK Crockett Johnson Papers, Estate of Ruth Krauss CJ Papers-HC Crockett Johnson Papers, HarperCollins Publishers’Archives CJ Papers-SI Crockett Johnson Papers, Mathematics Division, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution FBI-CJ FBI file for David Johnson Leisk alias Crockett Johnson, FOIPA No. 0999494-00 IJW Ruth Krauss, Intensive Journal Workbook, box 21, folder 691, Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs Kent Papers Rockwell Kent Papers,Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution MD Maryland Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore NS Nina Stagakis RK Ruth Krauss RKA Ruth Krauss autobiography, ca. mid-1940s, box 20, folder 698, Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs RK Papers-HC Ruth Krauss Papers, HarperCollins Publishers’Archives RK Papers-NCLC Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs SC Susan Carr Stroud Notes J. B. Stroud, unpublished notes on Johnson’s paintings, in possession of J. B. Stroud UN Ursula Nordstrom “Where” Ruth Krauss,“Where Am I Going?,” box 20, folder 702, Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs 277 Notes Introduction 1. New Haven Office of the FBI,“David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 10 Nov. 1950, 5, FBI-CJ. 2. Mickenberg, Learning, 15, 141–42; Mickenberg and Nel, Tales, 101, 205. 3. Marcus, Minders, 216. 4. The Simpsons, season 21, episode 22, 16 May 2010; Dove,“Maple Valley Branch Library,” 32. 5. Solomon,“Beyond Finger Paint,” 25. 6. Bader,“Ruth Krauss,” 416; Sendak,“Ruth Krauss and Me,” 287. 7. Parker,“Mash Note,” 16; Wepman,“Barnaby,” 47. 8.Waugh, Comics, 306. Chapter 1 1. IJW, 17–20 Oct. 1979; RK birth certificate, Maryland State Archives; Baltimore City Directories for 1901, 1933, MD; Sanborn Maps of Baltimore, 1901–2, MD; Wertz and Wertz, Lying-In, 133. 2. Baltimore City Directories for 1892, 1901, MD; 1880 U.S. Census; Swyrich,“Ancient History”; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979. 3. Fein, Making, 134; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; Baltimore City Directories, 1891–1921, MD. 4.“Mrs.Albert A. Brager,” Baltimore Sun, biography files, MD; 1910 U.S. Census, Maryland, Baltimore 13, Enumeration District 201; 1920 U.S. Census, Maryland, Baltimore 13, Enumeration District 204; 1880 U.S. Census, St. Louis, Missouri; IJW, 17–20 Oct. 1979. Carrie Mayer was the sister of Hollywood producer Samuel Mayer. 5. Marriage record, Baltimore City Court of Common Pleas, Maryland State Archives; Pruce, Synagogues, 126–29; William Rosenau,“Oheb Shalom Congregation,” in Blum, Jews, 65; Fein, Making, 178; IJW, 20 Oct. 1979; Baltimore City Directories, 1890–1900, MD; Bowditch, Images, 12–43; Sandler, Jewish Baltimore, 55. 6. Brian Alverson to author, 20 September 2004; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979. 7. IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; Hahn, interview. 8. RKA, 2. 9. Baltimore City Directories, 1903–15, MD; 1910 U.S. Census; Sandler, Jewish Baltimore, 44; Sanford Maps of Baltimore, 1901–2, 1915, MD. 10.“Where,” 39–40. 11. Ibid., 40. 12. IJW, 20 Oct. 1979;“Krauss, Ruth (Ida) 1911–,” in Something about the Author, 135; Baltimore Sun, index for 1913, PR. 13.“Ruth Krauss: Let Me Tell You a Story,” 3–4; Graetz, interview;“Krauss, Ruth (Ida) 1911–,” in Something about the Author, 134; Harms,“Interview,” 9. 14. Sandler, Jewish Baltimore, 43; Baltimore City Directories, 1916–18, MD; Chico,“Cone Sisters,” 82–83;“The Marlborough Apartment House” (promotional brochure), ca. 1905, MD; RKA, 2–3. 15. Klapper, Jewish Girls, 78, 90, 202. 16. RK,“Ruth Krauss,” in More Junior Authors, 126; information provided by Joan Schwartz,Alumni Office, Maryland Institute of Art, 2 June 2005;“N.Y.Artists Out 278 Notes for Cash,” Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 1917, J.O.L.,“The Three Arts: Music Drama Painting,” Baltimore Sun, 4 June 1918,“Consulting Engineers in the Art of Dress,” [Baltimore Sun?], 1921, all in Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, Announcement: Schools of Art and Design, Baltimore, Md., 1917–1918, 13, Maryland Institute College of Art. 17. Baltimore City Directories, 1918, 1919, 1920, MD; 1920 U.S. Census; information provided by Joan Schwartz,Alumni Office, Maryland Institute of Art, 2...