Clare Briggs / Comics

Movie of a Man’s First Dive

by Clare Briggs · May 11, 2019

Tags: Diving Movie of a Man swimming

Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

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