• Title
  File 1: Original artworks used as cover art for crime, western and romance books by Rose Wittman
• Call number
  PXE 1794/Boxes 1-3
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1954-1958
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  9658657
• Physical Description
  20 watercolours - on board - 40 x 33 cm or smaller
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Rose Wittman worked for Cleveland Publishing between 1954 -1955, and then again from the beginning of 1957. According to Cleveland Publishing she painted book covers for romance, detective, war and Westerns. The company have no formal records of her, although it is understood that she lived in Sydney and possibly worked at Grosvenor Galleries in 1954.
  
  Reference:
  Library acquisition file
• Scope and Content
  Box 1
  Romance:
  1. You Never Can Tell!, No. 4, American Romance, 1957, Rose Wittman
  2. Flirtatious, No. 20, 20 October 1954, Rose Wittman
  3. Breathless Hour/Burning Desire/Take Me Away/Hour of Love, No. 34, French Romance, 11 October 1957, Rose Wittman
  4. Girl With A Past, Janice Stewart, No. 43, Romance, 28 February 1958, Rose Wittman
  5. The Redhead, No. 78, 12 September 1955, Rose Wittman
  6. Lets Fall In Love!, No. 36, French Romance, 1957, Rose Wittman
  7. My Hungry Heart, No. 103, 28 November 1955, Rose Wittman
  
  Box 2
  Crime/Detective:
  8. Third Man Out: Plus two complete stories, No. 4, 11 October 1954, Rose Wittman
  9. Mirror Of Death, No. 18, 25 November 1954, Rose Wittman
  10. Hi-Jacker, No. 30, 17 January 1955, Rose Wittman
  11. Hostess To Murder, No. 58, 28 April 1955, Rose Wittman
  12. The Violent City, No. 79, 28 July 1955, Rose Wittman
  13. Two To Die!, No. 80, 28 July 1955, Rose Wittman
  14. Condemned!, No. 114, 22 February 1956, Rose Wittman
  
  Box 3
  Western:
  15. Draw!, No. 34, 24 January 1955
  16. Traitors Trail!, No. 49, 22 March 1955, Rose
  17. Running Iron, No. 52, 14 April 1955, Rose
  18. Killers Canyon, No. 56, 28 April 1955, Rose
  19. Against The Law, No. 81, 15 September 1955
  20. Coffin Creek, No. 112, 21 February 1956, Rose
• System of arrangement
  Arranged chronologically by date
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Cleveland Publishing Company
• Description source
  
  Titles from pencil notes on back of works
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Wittman, Rose
  
• Subject
  Detective and mystery stories--Pictorial works.
  Western stories--Pictorial works.
  Romance fiction--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20614389

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