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Surprisingly Thomas Henry met
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newspaper proprietors and printers) at the young age of fourteen. Numerous paintings and sketches he made outside contract were used by his employers for publishing merchandise like
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magazine between 1927 and 1937. He illustrated the first three collections of Jane stories at the publishing house of
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