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[The following is from communications with Barbara Armstrong, Bert's Grand Daughter. The photos are courtesy of Ms. Armstrong. The drawing of the elephant is part of my collection. - Editor] Bert Salg could not make a living with his artwork during the depression. A friend or relative had a "camp" in the Adirondacks for summer use. He allowed Bert, his wife, Jessie and their daughter, Mildred, to move there. He hunted, fished and somehow survived for one and a half years. Mildred attended a one-room schoolhouse. As Bert's health failed they moved back to Congers, New York, where he died.
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Bert
Nelson Salg (1881 - 1938) was born in Fayetteville, New York.
As a young man he worked for the L.C. Smith Typewriter Company.
In 1921 Salg was hired by Grosset and Dunlap. Salg would receive
manuscripts directly from the author for illustrations. All the
interior art in the Leo Edwards books was black and white. Only
the exterior dust jackets were in color. Salg, who was color blind
to red, had is wife, Jessie Salg, help him select colors for the covers. Salg
Salg moved to Greenwich Village and then to Congers, New York where
he died in the spring of 1938.
Salg
was the sole artist for Leo's books published by Grosset and Dunlap
until his death in 1938. A.D. Rahan illustrated Andy Blake in Advertising
published by D. Appleton & Company. Myrtle Sheldon illustrated
Jerry Todd's Up-The-Ladder Club, Jerry Todd's Poodle Parlor and
Poppy Ott & Co., Inferior Decorators. Herman Bacharach illustrated
Jerry Todd's Cuckoo Camp. There is no artist credited for Jerry
Todd and the Buffalo Bill Bathtub, The Monkey's Paw or The Hidden
Dwarf.
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