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These are the illustrations shown on the frontpiece and backpiece (both inside covers) from the 1949 "Childcraft" Encyclopedia - these illustrations were drawn by Milo Winter and is signed by him in the lower left corner.
** Milo Winter (1888-1956) was a well known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others. He also drew the pen and ink renderings for the original 1930's editions of A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dicken's Classic. He was born in Princeton, Illinois and trained at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute. He lived in Chicago until the early 1950's, when he moved to New York City. From 1947 to 1949, he was the art editor of Childcraft books and from 1949, was the art editor in the film strip division of Silver Burdett Company.