Autograph Album with Hand-Colored Illustrations to Shirley Temple, Mostly by Disney Artists

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6 1/2" (17 cm.) x 5". A leather bound autograph album, with hand-stitched edging and gilt lettered "Autographs" on the cover, contains fourteen hand-drawn and colored illustrations, mostly by Disney animators of the 1930s, and each with specific messages or illustrations for Shirley Temple. These include a sketch of Donald Duck "To Shirley Temple" by animator Dick Huemer; a sketch of the Big Bad Wolf with the message "Hello Shirley!" by Norm Ferguson; scampering Mickey Mouse with a bubble message "Hi Shirley!" by Al Taliaferro; highly characterized Three Little Pigs by Fred Moore, who is considered their principal animator with "Hello Shirley!" message; and an amusing sketch of a Snow White Dwarf by Bill Tytla, of which he was one of the original animators with the note "Why, Why, It's a girl!". Other sketches with accompanying autographs include those by James Montgomery Flagg, Jack Campbell, Les Clark, Murray Griffin, Bab Bitt ("I'm sure goofy about yuh-Shirley!" with sketch of Goofy), and Dorothy Doran Williams with a delicately rendered watercolor of Shirley. Excellent condition, the autographs were collected during the mid-1930s.