Booth Tarkington poster showing a man holding a dog

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A man cradling a dog is the central image of this poster, an unusual choice for a design that promotes a writer. Booth Tarkington, the Indianapolis novelist, was one of the most widely read American authors of the early 1900s. He is remembered for *Penrod*, a comic portrait of an unruly boy, and for *The Magnificent Ambersons*, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. The record does not name the artist or date, so the poster is best read as an example of how publishers used an author's name and an eye-catching picture to sell books in that era.

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