Children's literature -- Illustrations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Walter Crane Collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1418
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains original sketches, drawings, autograph manuscripts, and autograph letters, signed, by the English illustrator Walter Crane. Prominent are the original drawings for two of Crane's illustrated books, Queen Summer, or The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose (London: Cassell & Co., 1891) and A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899). Correspondents include Kineton Parkes and...
Dates:
1876-1915
Emma Joy Dana Collection of Artuš Scheiner
Collection
Call Number: AOB 30
Overview:
The collection consists of 24 illustrations by the Czech artist Artuš Scheiner.
Dates:
1914-1933
Hardie Gramatky papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1567
Overview:
The collection documents the life and career of illustrator, author, and painter, Hardie Gramatky (1907-1979). Materials in the collection include correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and materials related to Gramatky's career as a children's book author and illustrator.
Dates:
1864-2014
Thacher Hurd papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1703
Overview:
The collection consists of original artwork, writings, dummies, proofs, photographs, notebooks and sketchbooks, publishing correspondence and contracts, printed materials, memorabilia, and computer and audiovisual media documenting the career of children’s book author Thacher Hurd.
Dates:
1949-2017
Frederick R. Koch collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Overview:
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and...
Dates:
1640-1983
Catharine T. Patterson Collection of Walter Crane
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1386
Overview:
The collection contains original sketches, drawings, proof sheets, autograph manuscripts, and autograph letters from and to the English illustrator Walter Crane.
Dates:
1867-1957
[Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of Century Company illustrations]
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1219
Overview:
The collection consists of 142 drawings and watercolors by twenty-seven artists who were commissioned by the Century Company to create illustrations for their popular periodicals The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine and St. Nicholas Magazine, in particular to illustrate stories for children. Most of the drawings have paper labels or production marks in crayon on their versos indicating the magazine, volume number, and projected page number where the images were to appear, the section of the...
Dates:
1879-1914
Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of Frank Richard Stockton
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 560
Overview:
The Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection of Frank Richard Stockton contains correspondence, writings, photographs, artifacts, and other personal papers of Stockton and his family; drawings by illustrators of Stockton's works; writings about Stockton and adaptations of his works by others; and correspondence, notes, and related materials created by Pforzheimer in the course of his research and collecting. Correspondence includes autograph letters, signed, to and from Stockton, many with literary...
Dates:
circa 1829-circa 1993, bulk 1880-1940
William R. Scott, Inc. records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 447
Overview:
Contains original artwork, including drawings, color separations, and reproduction proofs, for children's books published by William R. Scott, Inc.
Dates:
1938-1997 1938-1960, bulk 1938-1960
Mo Willems papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1003
Scope and Contents:
The collection includes writings, artwork, sketchbooks, photographs, audiovisual material, electronic media, a drawing table, and other papers by or relating to Mo Willems. Writings include drafts, notes, notebooks, book dummys, proofs, and related printed material. Artwork includes original watercolors, acrylic paintings, pencil drawings and sketches.
Dates:
circa 1990-2013