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Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) [1] was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to make quilts that expressed local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events. Powers married young and had a large family.
The agency was the subject of a 1943 musical comedy, The Powers Girl, in which Alan Mowbray portrayed Powers; the film featured Anne Shirley and Carole Landis as aspiring models. John Robert Powers was born to John J. Powers and Margaret Shindan in Easton, Pennsylvania, as reported in the record of his marriage in Manhattan on September 28 ...
Fair use book covers by the science fiction illustrator Richard M. Powers, for various authors and publishers. For articles on books with cover art by Powers, see Category:Books with cover art by Richard M. Powers.
For fair use images of book covers by Powers, see Category:Book covers by Richard M. Powers. Pages in category "Books with cover art by Richard M. Powers" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Trudy Donovan appears in the first book, The President’s Daughter, as the Powers family housekeeper. After the family moves to Washington D.C., she relocates to Florida to be with her own family. She visits the family in each of the subsequent books and serves as a surrogate grandmother to the Powers children.
At eleven, Powers was introduced to art when his uncle gave him a sketch book, although in later life [when?] his uncle's wife would try to prevent him from making any art [clarification needed]. He studied Greek at Loyola University before switching to art, taking classes at Mizen Academy, Chicago Art Institute and the University of Illinois ...
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State begins with an extensive discussion of Morgan's Ancient Society, which aims to describe the major stages of human development, and agrees with the work that the first domestic institution in human history was the matrilineal clan. Morgan was a pioneering American anthropologist and ...