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From the Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz Comic Page series Originally published October 2, 1904 No doubt every child that has followed the adventures in the United States of the living Scarecrow and the other queer people from the Land of Oz has been struck by the singular fact that...
L. Frank Baum Tells About His Four Million Books. Reprinted from an unidentified San Francisco Newspaper circa 1913 [The Tik-Tok Man of Oz opened at the Cort Theatre on April 21, 1913.] [This fascinating article contains a number of egregious errors and a lot of exaggerated history...
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) silent film
Directed by J. Farrell McDonald
Produced By L Frank Baum
Production Company: Oz Film Manufacturing Co.
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L Frank Baum's film of his fairy tale The Patchwork Girl of Oz Violet MacMillan...Ojo, a Munchkin Boy Frank Moore...Unc Nunkie, Ojo's Guardian Raymond...
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The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) silent film
Directed by J. Farrell McDonald
Written and Produced by L Frank Baum
Production Company: Oz Productions
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The Magic Cloak of Oz is a 1914 film directed by J. Farrell MacDonald. It was written by L. Frank Baum and produced by Baum and composer Louis F. Gottschalk....
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His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz (1915) silent film
Directed by J. Farrell McDonald
Written and Produced By L Frank Baum
Production Company: Oz Film Manufacturing Co.
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Classic entry into L Frank Baum's silent Wizard of Oz Series. Cast Violet MacMillan...Dorothy, a Kansas girl who is wandering in the Land of Oz Frank...
The Second Surprise from The Magical Monarch of Mo, 1903. A good many years ago the Magical Monarch of Mo became annoyed by the Purple Dragon,which came down from the mountains and ate up a patch of his best chocolate caramels just as they were getting ripe...
First published in this form in L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker, 1910. Originally published, with slight differences, as "The Fairy Prince" in Entertaining, December, 1909. List of Characters: PRINCESS MARVEL, a Fairy in disgrace; afterward Prince Marvel...
Published February 2, 1896 [from the Times-Herald, June 27, 2090] YESTERDAY was a busy day at the exposition. The pneumatic cars were discharged from the Lake Front Station at intervals of one minute the entire day, and every carriage was packed...
L. Frank Baum "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick," said the Witch, "so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you."
Originally published in Baum's American Fairy Tales, 1908. Mary-Marie wanted something to do. Her mother had died years before, and the cruel king had commanded her father to join the royal army and march into far-off countries to do battle...
Originally published in Father Goose’s Year Book, 1907 February This is the month the bashful youth I...
Originally published in The Delineator, January 1905. There are three parts to the Wilderness. One is the Outer Circle, where the sandy hills are broken by clumps of shrubbery, a few trees and huge jagged points of rock which jut from the earth. Here the smaller animals mostly dwell...
From Mother Goose in Prose, 1897 Three Wise Men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl....
The original publication of this poem is unknown. Baum's use of the pseudonym "Louis F. Baum" (his name was Lyman Frank Baum) indicates that the poem dates from about the 1880s. Possibly it was published in the Aberdeen [South Dakota] Saturday Pioneer while Baum was the editor of that newspaper...
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