Wendelin, Rudolph, 1910-2000

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Pen and pencil drawing for the design of a 24-foot tall Smokey Bear figure.

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Original pen drawing of Smokey Bear's face mapped to a color key. There are also several copies of the drawing, including one that is partially colored in. A simplified copy of the same face design is titled "Smokey - 1 color guide for routed sign".

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Christmas stamps.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of posters promoting wildfire prevention, the bulk of which were produced for the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (CFFP) campaign.Some of the early posters in this series use World War II resource conservation themes from an American point of view, and a few portray negative racial and ethnic stereotypes. Most of the CFFP posters produced after 1944 feature Smokey Bear and variations of his slogan, “Only you can prevent forest fires.” The collection also...

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Smokey belt design. USFS 3/4-53

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This subseries consists of negatives for some of the photograph prints in Subseries III.A., as well as negatives for images with no corresponding prints in the collection.

Topics covered include the living bears, Smokey and Little Smokey; the costumed Smokey mascot at various events; award presentations; events, exhibits, and promotions featuring Smokey Bear and fire prevention themes; and scenes of forests and forestry.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This subseries consists of negatives for some of the photograph prints in Subseries III.A., as well as negatives for images with no corresponding prints in the collection.

Topics covered include the living bears, Smokey and Little Smokey; the costumed Smokey mascot at various events; award presentations; events, exhibits, and promotions featuring Smokey Bear and fire prevention themes; and scenes of forests and forestry.

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This subseries contains original art for the "Smokey Says" cartoon series, which promoted fire prevention and was published in newspapers and magazines. The artworks are mostly single-panel, pen-and-ink cartoon illustrations with hand-written captions. The bulk of the cartoons in this subseries were drawn by Rudy Wendelin, with a few of the earlier pieces drawn by Harry Rossoll.