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Illustrators -- Books and reading

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

B. Stafford Good 1893-1969 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMA-BSG
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.

Dates: 1907 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1970

Henry Louis Stephens 1824-1882 Series, bulk: circa 1850-1880, bulk: circa 2000-2010, 1850 - 2021

 Series
Identifier: BMA.PPD.HLS
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...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1850-1880; Majority of material found within circa 2000-2010; 1850 - 2021

Paul Preston Davis 1931-2021 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMA-PPD
Abstract

The Paul Preston Davis Collection contains secondary and tertiary research materials that cover four artistic subjects local to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware regions: Alexander Charles Stuart, Henry Louis Stephens, Howard Pyle, and John Sloan.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1880 - 2000; 1820 - 2021

The Maxfield Parrish Museum Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMA-MPMC
Abstract The Maxfield Parrish Museum Collection includes archival materials donated by the closed Maxfield Parrish Museum through its director and former art dealer, Alma Gilbert. The collection includes materials that relate to the home life and activities of Maxfield Parrish’s immediate family, such as photographs of the family and home, postcards, and children’s drawings. Materials pertaining to Parrish’s professional life include glass plate negatives and other photographs used as models for...
Dates: 1881 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1920