![Elizabeth Shippen Green - The Journey [1903]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7505/15851879835_9887889068_o.jpg)
This illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled The Little Past. The poems relate experiences of childhood from a child's perspective.
Elizabeth Shippen Green (Philadelphia, September 1, 1871 - 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for many years for Harper;s Magazine. In 1911, Green married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor. Green continued to work through the 1920s and illustrated a nonsense verse alphabet with her husband. In 1994, Green was elected to the Society of illustrators Hall of Fame
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