Ve Elizabeth Cadie
{{Short description|American illustrator of children's books}}
Ve Elizabeth Cadie (1893 – August 2, 1956)[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61461/47769_B353865-00046?pid=1608028&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=MQp13&_phstart=successSource Ancestry.com]. New York, New York, Death Index, 1949-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. was an early twentieth century American illustrator of children's books and magazines,{{cite web|url=http://www.viaf.org/viaf/58911323/#Cadie,_Ve_Elizabeth|title=Cadie, Ve Elizabeth Library of Congress/NACO ISNI : VIAF ID: 58911323 (Personal)|website=Viaf.org|access-date=18 December 2018}} a stylist, and a designer.{{cite news |last1=Ryan |first1=Mary |title=Gift Trays That Carry More Than Good Wishes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/133352173/?terms=%22Ve%2BElizabeth%2BCadie%22 |access-date=15 December 2018 |work=The Palm Beach Post |date=10 December 1932 |location=West Palm Beach, Florida |page=7 |quote=Among the newer trays the most popular designs follow the modern trends. Of these two especially interesting ones are illustrated ... Ve Elizabeth Cadie, whose originality is causing quite a stir in art and industry, designed the motifs first for luncheon doilies in vivid modern colors of blue, green, red or black on white.}}{{cite news |title=Bright Yuletide Decorations Make Home Sparkle Like Santa's Eyes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/75962735/?terms=%22Ve%2BElizabeth%2BCadie%22 |access-date=15 December 2018 |work=Bradford Evening Star and The Bradford Daily Record |date=21 December 1938 |page=9 |quote=Ve Elizabeth Cadie, prominent designer, created this jolly cardboard Santa Claus who comes ready to be cut out.}}{{cite news |title=Holiday Tables Have New Ideas About Decorations |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/252169554/?terms=%22Ve%2BElizabeth%2BCadie%22 |access-date=15 December 2018 |work=The Star Press |date=17 December 1938 |location=Muncie, Indiana |page=7 |quote=But most colorful and appealing of all is the new Santa Claus cut-out shown above ... a rollicking, gnome-like fellow designed by Ve Elizabeth Cadie, illustrator of children's books.}}
Career
She worked as an illustrator for the P. F. Volland Company and Rand McNally & Company, and as a designer for W. S. George Pottery Company, where she was responsible for the "Calico" design.{{cite news |last1=Cadie |first1=Ve Elizabeth |title=Even Calico May Give Us Ideas For China - Modern Designers Are Much Freer in Their Use of Odd Motifs for China Decoration |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/40208275/?terms=%22Ve%2BElizabeth%2BCadie%22 |access-date=15 December 2018 |work=Middletown Times Herald |date=8 September 1933 |location=Middletown, New York |page=11}} Her images appeared on the cover of magazines like Child Life in the 1930s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.art.com/products/p21441921207-sa-i7376652/ve-elizabeth-cadie-in-film-land-child-life.htm|title=In Film Land - Child Life Giclee Print by Ve Elizabeth Cadie|website=art.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-09}} In articles about design for the home, she was described as a "prominent designer", "whose originality is causing quite a stir in art and industry".
Cadie obtained a patent for her invention of a heat insulating handle for small home appliances and for a coffee pot design, in 1945 and 1951 respectively.{{cite web |title=Handle construction patent US2540075A |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US2540075A/en |website=patents.google.com |access-date=15 December 2018}}{{cite web |title=Coffee Pot USD144354S |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/USD144354S/en?inventor=Cadie+Ve+Elizabeth |website=patents.google.com |access-date=15 December 2018}}
She died on August 2, 1956.
Selected works
- Merryman, Mildred Plew, and Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Bonbon and Bonbonette. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1924. {{OCLC|1057432653}}
- Muter, Gladys Nelson, and Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Two Wooden Soldiers and a Hobby Horse. Joliet, Illinois: P. F. Volland Co, 1924. {{OCLC|173512178}}
- Campbell, Ruth, and Ve Elizabeth Cadie. The Cat Whose Whiskers Slipped: And Other Stories. Joliet, Illinois: P. F. Volland Co, 1925. Republished by Wise-Parlow Company in 1938. {{OCLC|5957166}}{{cite book |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1938-1939, Part 1 |year=1937 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gg8jAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA8 |access-date=25 November 2018}}
- Campbell, Ruth, and Ve Elizabeth Cadie. The Turtle Whose Snap Unfastened. Joliet: P.F. Volland, 1927. {{OCLC|14103176}}
- Hankins, Maude McGehee, and Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Daddy Gander. Joliet: P.F. Volland Co., 1928. {{OCLC|15805865}}
- Warde, Margaret, and Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Biddy and Buddy's Holidays. New York: D. Appleton, 1930. {{OCLC|22981028}}
- Cadie, Ve Elizabeth. The ABC Circus. 1932. {{OCLC|179257593}}
- Cadie, Ve Elizabeth, Mister Wubble's Bubbles. 1936. Saafield Publishing Company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/MISTER-WUBBLES-BUBBLES-Merryman-Mildred-Plew/21998992990/bd|title=MISTER WUBBLE'S BUBBLES by Merryman, Mildred Plew: Very Good Hardcover (1936) 1st Ed, 1st Prt. | Elaine Woodford, Bookseller|website=www.abebooks.com}}
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Category:American women children's book illustrators
Category:20th-century American women inventors
Category:20th-century American inventors
Category:American magazine illustrators