Artists’ preparatory studies

Abstract

This collection contains materials on B. Stafford Good’s career as an illustrator, such as: clippings, scrapbooks, print proofs, photographs, original sketches, and a manuscript that records an outline of the illustrations planned for “Adventures of Karki”, based on Good’s own experience during World War I.

Abstract The Henry Louis Stephens series includes materials compiled by collector and historian Paul Preston Davis relating to Stephens’s work as an illustrator, cartoonist, and author. A particular focus of this series is Stephens’s personal scrapbook, dated 1880, that contains print proofs featuring anthropomorphic animals. This series contains advertising prints, trade cards, print proofs, four original drawings, and Davis’s research materials and notes on Stephens’s published cartoons and...