Harry Whittier Frees

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Harry Whittier Frees created of novelty postcards and children's books based on his photographs of animals. He dressed the animals and posed them in human situations with props. The books and postcards are both highly collectible today.^{[citation needed]}

Frees was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879, after which his family moved to Oaks, Pennsylvania, where he did his famous works. In the 1940s, he moved to Florida, where he died in 1953.

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Cats, Dogs & Other Rabbits: The Extraordinary World of Harry Whittier Frees by Harry Whittier Frees and Sylvie Treille, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2006.