Peter and Polly

In this book for children, Peter and Polly meet as kittens, play together, go to school, fall in love, marry, have kittens of their own, and grow old together. Accompanying the story of their adventures are colored photographs of the "real" Peter and Polly, who were the pets of nature photographer Cornelia Clarke. As a young girl, Clarke, who grew up on a farm outside of Grinnell, taught herself the photographic arts by taking pictures of her cats with her father's camera. These photographs, which were originally in black and white, represent her early work. Original plate-glass negatives for six of the twenty-four photographs in Peter and Polly are in the Archives at Drake Community Library. Another original glass-plate negative of a photograph in Peter and Polly is housed in the Grinnell Historical Museum. Clarke was a premier nature photographer, well-known for her exquisite photographs of plants, insects, and animals, which were published both nationally and internationally. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Cornelia Clarke Collection. Collection #237.

Title	Peter and Polly
author	Wilkinson, Elizabeth Hays
photographer	Clarke, Cornelia Shepard, 1884-1936
Index Date	1912
Publisher	Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Provenance	Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
note	Original publisher: Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
Topic	Children's stories
Topic	Cats
Geographic	Grinnell (Iowa)
Keyword	1910s
Keyword	Grinnell
Related Item	Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item	Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Related Item	Digital Grinnell
Genre	book
Language	English
Identifier (local)	grinnell:18980
Identifier (hdl)	http://hdl.handle.net/11084/18980
Access Condition	Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).