Letter from Stone to Wiesendanger with description and drawing of recently completed work, "An Atomic Baby", July 13, 1946

Item — Folder: 25

Identifier: 3827.7836

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Description

Folder 25

Transcript (DCI)

Locust Grove, Okla July 13, 1946

Mr. Martin Wiesendanger

Dear Martin I have just finished a companion price for the (Birth of Atomic Energy). This one is called (Our Atomic Baby) I have tried to picture, using the baby as a representative figure, The atomic infant and how he was born.

To understand this drawing best, read from bottom to top

-The Atomic Baby himself the world is now moulding his character, by giving him knives to play with. -The successful experiment, or atomic explosion giving birth to out Atomic Baby -Immature babies boiling out of top and down side of bottle to rep scientific failures in the past experiments of near misses. -Test bottle representing science

WIll be out there on the 16th and bring this guy Willard Stone

Dates

July 13, 1946

Creator

Stone, Willard, 1916 - 1985 (Author, Person)

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