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Title
Portable
desk
photograph
Subject
Desks
;
Portable
desks
;
Furniture
;
Zane
Grey
,
1872-1939
Time Period
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
Place
Norwich
(Ohio)
;
Muskingum
County
(Ohio)
Description
This
portable
desk
made
of
plywood
dates
from
around
1903
to
1939
. The
rectangular
desk
(also
called
a "
lap
desk")
has
one
concave
edge
. Its
surface
is
marked
by
scribbles
presumably
made
by
author
Zane
Grey
(1872-1939)
. The
desk
was
included
in a
collection
of
materials
related
to
Grey
that was
donated
in
1968
to the
Ohio
Historical
Society
by his
three
children
(Romer
Grey
,
Loren
Grey
, and
Betty
Zane
Grosso)
.
Zane
Grey
was a
popular
novelist
of the
American
West
. He was
born
Pearl
Zane
Gray
in
Zanesville
,
Ohio
, to
Lewis
Gray
and
Alice
Josephine
Zane
Gray
. The
family
later
changed
the
spelling
of its
surname
, and
Zane
Grey
dropped
his
first
name
. As a
teenager
,
Grey
was an
excellent
baseball
player
. He
won
a
baseball
scholarship
to the
University
of
Pennsylvania
,
where
he
studied
to
become
a
dentist
.
After
practicing
dentistry
for
fewer
than
ten
years
,
Grey
decided
to
leave
dentistry
behind
and
become
a
writer
.
Grey
drew
the
inspiration
for his
first
novel
,
“Betty
Zane”
(1904)
, from the
stories
he had
heard
about
frontier
Ohio
when
he was
growing
up
. At
first
he
could
not
find
a
publisher
for the
book
, but he
refused
to
give
up
.
Grey
traveled
west
and
continued
his
writing
. In
1910
he had his
first
success
when
“Harper's
Magazine”
published
“The
Heritage
of the
Desert.”
Two
years
later
“Harper's”
published
“Riders
of the
Purple
Sage.”
Grey
married
Lina
Elise
Roth
in
1905
. The
couple
had
three
children
.
After
publication
of
“The
Heritage
of the
Desert,”
the
family
moved
to
Altadena
,
California
.
Each
year
Grey
spent
time
traveling
in the
west
and
fishing
in the
Pacific
. He
died
unexpectedly
of a
heart
attack
on
October
23
,
1939
. By the
time
of his
death
, he had
written
almost
ninety
books
.
Most
of his
books
were
Westerns
, but he also
wrote
nine
books
that had a
fishing
theme
.
Grey
also
published
many
short
stories
, a
biography
of the
young
George
Washington
, and
several
stories
for
children
.
Date of Original
ca.
1903-1939
Collection
National
Road
Zane
Grey
Source
H
33786
Format
Object
;
Picture
;
Color
photograph
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
H33786.tif
Image Height
2597
Image Width
3896
File Size
30365992 Bytes
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