Occupation: Illustrators - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 1 item
Abstract:: This collection comprises a single, illustrated autograph letter signed with an additionally initialed post script written from Harry Furniss (1854-1925) to literary hostess Lady St. Helier (1845-1931).

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 5 item
Abstract:: These letters, galley proofs, and postcards were laid in a first edition of Will Bradley’s Memories 1875-1895: Happenings here and there along the trail, or, The world went very well then : a Victorian tale gleaned from memories and told for the edification of the fellow Typophiles.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.33 linear foot (4 boxes)
Abstract:: A native of Wilmington, Delaware, artist, illustrator, and author Katharine Pyle (1863-1938), achieved recognition through her short stories, poems, and plays for children. The Katharine Pyle papers, spanning approximately 1904–1929, consists of material related to her artistic, business, and personal affairs.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 61 item (1 box)
Abstract:: The Jack Butler Yeats Correspondence is a collection of fifty-one letters from the Irish painter and illustrator to Kilham Robarts and other members of the Society of Authors, with some copies of letters he had written to MacMillan & Co. and their responses to Yeats.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 linear foot (3 boxes) and 3 oversize box
Abstract:: This collection houses pen and ink drawings on boards, water colors, manuscripts, a promotional display board, scholarly journals, disbound leaves, printer's proofs, and booklets related to Thornton Oakley (1881-1953) and Amy Oakley (. Oakley illustrated numerous books and magazines, includingHarper's,Century Magazine,Collier's Weekly, andEverybody's Magazineduring the 20th century.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 5 linear foot (14 volumes in 5 boxes) and 1 oversize box
Abstract:: The Helen Farr SloanPhiladelphia Inquirernotebooks consist of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art, encompassing the early years of John Sloan’s career in Philadelphia, and include a separately-organized group of materials from the same period about the Drexel family and publisher George W. Childs.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 8.33 linear foot (9 boxes), 5 oversize box, 4 oversize galley proof, and 1 oversize folder
Abstract:: Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for and in collaboration with a host of literary and artistic figures, including Edward Dorn, Tom Raworth, William T. Wiley, Lucia Berlin, Stan Brakhage, and Robert Creeley.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]

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