de Grummond Collection

McCain Library and Archives
University Libraries
University of Southern Mississippi



SUSANNA NATTI PAPERS

Collection Number
Collection Dates
Collection Volume
DG0727
1979
.90 cu.ft. (2 boxes)

Biographical Sketch | Scope & Content | Related Collections | Series & Subseries | Box Inventory


Provenance
Material was donated by Susanna Natti in 1980.

Restrictions
Noncirculating; available for research.

Copyright
The collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. Code). Reproductions can be made only if they are to be used for "private study, scholarship, or research." It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials, other than that noted above.

Biographical Sketch
Susanna Natti, daughter of author Lee Kingman, was born on October 19, 1948 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. At the age of eight she decided that she would be an illustrator and often copied pictures from art books. She later took lessons from Virginia Lee Burton's husband, George Demetrios, who also lived on Cape Ann. She attended Smith College, the Montserrat School of Visual Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She illustrated more than fifty of David Adler's "Cam Jansen Mysteries" series and won the Christopher Award in 1979 for Frederick's Aligator, her second illustrated book.

Source:

Scope and Content
The collection contains 29 color separations, two dummies, illustrations, and correspondence for Frederick's Alligator (1979), the story of a boy who hatches and cares for a baby alligator. There are also folded and gathered sheets and preliminary sketches and proofs of the dust jacket. There is also a sketch for a family Christmas card. The materials are arranged alphabetically and in the probable order in which they were created .


Related Collection

There are many sketches, dummies, etc. by Susanna Natti in The David A. Adler Papers (DG0005).

Series and Subseries

A. Christmas Card

B. Books


Box Inventory

Box/Folder 

A. Christmas Card

     1/1       Sketch for family Christmas card, 1 item.

B. Books

     Frederick's Alligator by Esther Allen Peterson, illustrated by Susanna
     Natti (New York : Crown,1979).

     1/2       Correspondence, 1978, 8 items.

     1/3       Typescript, "artist's copy," pp. 1-5.

     1/4-1/5   Dummies, 2 items.

     1/6       Illustration, watercolor, p. 3.

     1/7       Illustration, watercolor, pp. 7-8.

     1/8       Preliminary sketch for end papers, 1 item.

     1/9       Illustrations, photocopied, marked for color separations, 
               pp. 1-32.

     2/1-2/6   Color separations, 

     2/1            pp. 1-5 and jacket, 5 items.

     2/2            pp. 7-12, 5 items.

     2/3            pp. 13-17, 5 items.

     2/4            pp. 18-22, 5 items.

     2/5            pp. 23-28, 5 items.

     2/6            pp. 29-32, 4 items.

     2/7       Sketches for jacket, 2 items.

     2/8       Illustration for jacket, watercolor, 1 item.

     2/9       Proof of dust jacket and photocopy, 2 items.

     2/10      Folded and gathered sheets, 1 item.




Processed: June 30, 1998 Revised: June 2001

Biographical Sketch | Scope & Content | Related Collections | Series & Subseries | Box Inventory
[Return to top]

ABOUT US | COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS | RESEARCH | EXHIBITS & EVENTS

SEARCH LIBRARY CATALOG | FINDING AIDS | SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES HOME | SOUTHERN MISS HOME

Contact:
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Box 5148
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
(601) 266-4349
Comments and Questions

This page created by Instructional Media Unit Webteam and maintained by de Grummond Collection.
Office of Technology Resources
The University of Southern Mississippi
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/ | Last updated May 16, 2002.
AA/EOE/ADAI