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13" (33 cm.) x 4", 7" x 3 1/2". Each on heavy artist stock, including a wide placard colorfully depicting eight men with chef's hats, one with smiling expression and holding a heart-shaped sign "America's Little Sweetheart" and the others in various humorous poses, each holding one letter of her name, to spell out SHIRLEY, signed E. A. Burbank, 1940. The other with decoupage of purple flowers and the shaded outlined message "Miss Shirley Temple - I so hope that all through your life your path will always be strewn with (flower image) and (flower image)", signed 1938 E. A. Burbank. The artistic messages were drawn for Shirley Temple by Elbridge Ayer Burbank, the American artist celebrated for his portrait paintings of Native Americans; his connection with Shirley is uncertain although the dating of the sketches suggests that Burbank may have had some project connected with the 1939 film "Susannah of the Mounties" whose cast included Blackfoot Indians.