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yesterdaysprint: “ The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1928 ” About the artist, Paul Fung, from Wikipedia: Paul Fung (1897 – 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Dumb Dora. Fung’s father was a Baptist...   High-res

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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1928

About the artist, Paul Fung, from Wikipedia:

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Paul Fung (1897 – 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Dumb Dora.

Fung’s father was a Baptist minister, the Reverend Fung Chak, a graduate of Stanford University. Paul was born in Seattle, where his father was pastor of Seattle’s Chinese Baptist mission. In China, Fung Chak was renowned as a translator of hymns and patriotic songs, Paul studied traditional Chinese art, which included painting cherry blossoms on delicate fans. But he became familiar with cartooning because his sister in Portland, Oregon mailed him Sunday comics sections. Returning to Seattle, Fung received further art training by studying the Landon School of Illustrating and Cartooning’s mail order correspondence course while he was attending Franklin High School, where he drew cartoons for the school paper. In addition to drawing, he also sang and played several musical instruments.

Eva Onderdonk, Ottawa, Ontario, ca. 1893

The second picture shows Eva in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader in December 1891, in an article titled Fair Chicago Maidens, an article that ran in many different newspapers across the country.

The third picture shows Eva in the Inter Ocean, a Chicago newspaper, in 1894, shortly before her wedding.

The fourth picture shows a clipping from the The Decatur Herald on February 11, 1892, in an article describing Chicago debutantes who were interested in charity work, another girl showcased was Florence Pullman, heiress of George M Pullman.

The fifth picture, again from the the Inter Ocean, shows Eva after her marriage, published on June 3, 1894.

The sixth photo, taken around 1885, shows a private passenger train car named after Eva, used to show visiting dignitaries and other VIPs the railroad while it was being constructed.

Eva was a daughter of Andrew Onderdonk, an American contractor who had a hand in building the seawall in San Francisco and the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. His role in the construction of the CPR is rather controversial, he “imported” thousands of Chinese workers from China and California for work on the railroad, giving them substandard shelter, pay and medical care while they did highly dangerous work, and then left them without help to either settle in Canada or move home, some living in caves with little food or water, when the railroad was complete.

Eva, at 19, married Percy Leroy Fearn on May 29, 1894, in Chicago, where her family had settled soon after the completion of the CPR railroad in BC. Her society debut took place in 1893, amid much fanfare. At the time of their marriage, Fearn’s father was a judge on the International Commission in Cairo. As far as I can tell, Eva and Percy had no children. He died in Texas in 1916.