The Winterthur Library. Creator: Shoemaker, Edna Cooke. Title: Edna Cooke Shoemaker drawings and papers. Dates: , bulk dates: Call No. Quantity: 17 boxes, 4 map case drawers. Location: 11 A , 11 B 5, map case B, drawers Edna Abigail Cooke Shoemaker was an American illustrator in the first third of the 20 th century. One of her fellow students there was a daughter of Woodrow Wilson.
She also illustrated textbooks for John C. Winston Co. She married Orlando Shoemaker, a mechanical engineer, on May 3, , and they had three children: Winslow Cooke who became an architect , Abigail Ann Gail, a pianist , and Oliver Ireton an English professor, born Dec.
Edna and Orlando met while doing work at the Philadelphia Settlement House. Orlando graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in and had served in the American army before and during World War I. He died in The family moved from Philadelphia to Media , Pa.
The other home was on Sandy Bank Road ; there, they tended a truck garden and kept a milk cow. Unfortunately, the duties of child rearing made it difficult for Mrs. However, she and her husband began to stage marionette shows for their children, making their own figures and backdrops, all painted by Mrs.
As the children grew older, they became active in putting on the shows, which were staged for the entertainment of others, including being part of USO shows for American servicemen during World War II. George and the Dragon. Shoemaker had also taught art at the Mary Lyon School in Swarthmore in the s and at the Haverford School in Haverford in the s.
