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That night a thankful father and mother knelt down beside the bed where their only daughter lay in a healthful sleep. A little girl had come back to her parents from the very gates of death. The Galilean stars looked down and smiled their benediction
That night a thankful father and mother knelt down beside the bed where their only daughter lay in a healthful sleep. A little girl had come back to her parents from the very gates of death. The Galilean stars looked down and smiled their benediction
That night a thankful father and mother knelt down beside the bed where their only daughter lay in a healthful sleep. A little girl had come back to her parents from the very gates of death. The Galilean stars looked down and smiled their benediction
(American, 1882 - 1945)

That night a thankful father and mother knelt down beside the bed where their only daughter lay in a healthful sleep. A little girl had come back to her parents from the very gates of death. The Galilean stars looked down and smiled their benediction

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  • The Daughter of Jairus
1929
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Have You Forgotten How You Threatened Twenty Years Ago, to Follow Me to the Very Gates of Hell, and What I Promised You--That If You Did, I'd Push You Inside?
Have You Forgotten How You Threatened Twenty Years Ago, to Follow Me to the Very Gates of Hell, and What I Promised You--That If You Did, I'd Push You Inside?
Douglas Duer
1921
The Fraser Family He was crammed, stiff and heated, into the old chaise between his parents
The Fraser Family
He was crammed, stiff and heated, into the old chaise between his parents
N.C. Wyeth
1928
Fifth Commandment: Honor thy parents. That creates for life insurance lower rates
Fifth Commandment: Honor thy parents. That creates for life insurance lower rates
Peter Paone
1963
Courtesy of The Illustration Gallery
The father kept the children near him, but always young Olaf looked with tragic eyes toward the slope where Padfoot waited.
N.C. Wyeth
1923
It was not signed. I read it slowly, because I was not very good at reading, and turned my eyes west-where my mother had gone
It was not signed. I read it slowly, because I was not very good at reading, and turned my eyes west-where my mother had gone
N.C. Wyeth
1921
In a hospital room Nora found her brother with Big Boy Morgan watching beside his bed
In a hospital room Nora found her brother with Big Boy Morgan watching beside his bed
N.C. Wyeth
1925
The Emperor Lay in his Huge Magnificent Bed
The Emperor Lay in his Huge Magnificent Bed
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
1965
The Slave Boy Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive.
The Slave Boy
Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive.
N.C. Wyeth
1912
The Governor, infuriated by the attack upon him, thundered: "Stand where you are, or, on my oath, my men shall cut you down!"
The Governor, infuriated by the attack upon him, thundered: "Stand where you are, or, on my oath, my men shall cut you down!"
N.C. Wyeth
1929
Where My Love Sleeps, dust-jacket illustration
Where My Love Sleeps, dust-jacket illustration
N.C. Wyeth
1945
Robin and His Mother Go to Nottingham Fair The road wound in and about the forest, and at noon they came to a part where the trees nigh shut out the sky.
Robin and His Mother Go to Nottingham Fair
The road wound in and about the forest, and at noon they came to a part where the trees nigh shut out the sky.
N.C. Wyeth
1917
Image Not Available for Jesus lived the life of a Galilean boy. He went to the village school, which was kept in the local synagogue by a local rabbi. He learned the clumsy letters of the Hebrew alphabet according to current methods of instruction
Jesus lived the life of a Galilean boy. He went to the village school, which was kept in the local synagogue by a local rabbi. He learned the clumsy letters of the Hebrew alphabet according to current methods of instruction
N.C. Wyeth
1929