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Electricity was leaking all over the house

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  • James Thurber Papers, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, The Ohio State University

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Title
  • Electricity was leaking all over the house
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Date Created
  • 1933
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Summary
  • Drawing of a woman sitting in a chair with a book who looks up suspiciously at a chandelier with a missing bulb; "z" shapes suggest electricity coming from the empty socket
Description
  • Quote from Thurber about the drawing: "She [my mother] came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over her house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on."
  • Title derived from caption.
  • A drawing intended to illustrate a story in Thurber's 1933 book, My Life and Hard Times.
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Collection Identifier
  • SPEC.RARE.CMS.0004
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  • Digitized from James Thurber Papers, SPEC.RARE.CMS.0004, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University

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Extent
  • 28 x 21.6 cm
Medium
  • ink on paper
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  • Users may access the image(s) on site in an Ohio State University Libraries’ reading room.
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  • This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.

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