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United States from the mid-19th century to around 1915. These include the work of 132 artists, for which predominant sources were monthly and weekly periodicals featuring fiction with captioned narrative illustrations, including The Century magazine, Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Cornhill magazine, The delineator, Everybody’s magazine, Good words, Harper’s monthly magazine, Harper’s weekly, The leisure hour, London society, McClure’s magazine, Scribner’s magazine and Scribner’s monthly.
Several illustrations come from mid-19th-century books such as those created by Myles Birket Foster for his Beauties of English landscape (London : George Routledge and Sons, 1874), by Thomas Creswick for Poems by Alfred Tennyson (London : E. Moxon & Co., 1866) and by John Dawson Watson for The pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan (London : Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861).
Other sources were general-interest magazines and fashion magazines, including The bookman, Harper’s bazar, The illustrated London news, Life and Vanity fair, that contained sections featuring the artwork of illustrators. A small number of magazine covers in colour and some pages from U.S. newspapers are included The folder of illustrations by John Tenniel includes an issue of The art journal ([April], 1901, designated “The art annual”) consisting of “The life and works of Sir John Tenniel” by Cosmo Monkhouse.

File contains 3 magazine covers by Irma Campbell (b. 1891) from Vogue, Oct. 1 1915, Jan. 1 1916 and Nov. 1 1916.

File contains a magazine cover by Alice Caddy (possibly Alice Caddy Burman, 1896-1977) from Vogue, Aug. 15 1911.

File contains 2 magazine covers by Margaret Benedict Bull (ca. 1887-1980) from Vogue, Jan. 15 1915 and July 15 1915.

File contains 2 magazine covers by Charles Livingston Bull (1874-1932) from The country gentleman, Dec. 3 1921 and The new country life, June 1918. Illustrations by this artist will also be found in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children).

File contains 20 magazine covers by unidentified artists. The cover of Chic Parisien from the Atelier Bachwitz may have been used as a wrapper rather than being intended as an item in the collection. Covers are sorted alphabetically by magazine title; arrangement, by box-folder: 8-4) British Columbia magazine-Vanity fair; 8-5) Vogue.British Columbia magazine, June 1911;Chic Parisien, "Le Grand Tailleur," ca. 1911 (Atelier Bachwitz);Dress & Vanity fair, Sept. 1913, Dec. 1913 (signed "WDT"); The fashionist, Nov. 1922 (signed "ABP"); Harper's bazar, July 1916, Apr. 1923; Motoring, Mar. 1911; Vanity fair, Jan. 1914 (signed "WDT"), Dec. 1918, Sept. 1922, Oct. 1922;Vogue, 18 Apr. 1907, Feb. 1 1912, Apr. 1 1912 (signed "AL"), Sept. 15 1912 (unidentified monogram), Feb. 15 1913, Sept. 15 1914, Feb. 15 1915, Sept. 1 1915, Feb. 1 1916.

File contains one magazine cover by each of 39 artists, listed as their signatures appear on the covers, sorted alphabetically by surname or pseudonym; arrangement, by box-folder: 8-1) Avery-Hassall; 8-2) Iribe-Mossa; 8-3) Pape-Thurlow. Illustrations by William James Glackens and Sydney Joseph will also be found in series 3 (Magazine illustrations), and illustrations by John Hassall in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children). Claire Avery (1879-1929), Vogue, Jan. 1 1917; R.A. Bell (Robert Anning Bell) (1863-1933), The ladies’ home journal, Nov. 1896; George de Forest Brush (1855-1941), The ladies’ home journal, Sept. 1911; Ruth Sypherd Clements (b. 1883), Vogue, May 15 1913; Gordon Conway (1894-1956), Vanity fair, Jan. 1918; E. Stetson Crawford (Earl Stetson Crawford) (1877-1966), Country life in America, Dec. 15 1910; Stuart Davis (1892-1964), The masses, May 1914; E. Deane (20th cent.), Harper’s bazar, July 1915; Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), Vogue, Apr. 1 1921; Dorothy Edinger (1896-1970), Vogue, Apr. 15 1918 (unsigned); W. Glackens (William James Glackens) (1870-1938), Collier’s, Apr. 16 1910; Will Hammell (1888-1963), Vogue, Aug. 1 1913 (unsigned); Hartman (Emil Alvin Hartman) (b. 1894), Fashion-art, Aug. 1917; John Hassall (1868-1948), The gentlewoman, Xmas [Dec.] 1913; Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Femina, Feb. 15 1912; Frank H. Johnston (Franz Johnston) (1888-1949), The Canadian courier, Oct. 28 1911 (complete issue); Sydney Joseph (1876-1950), Vanity fair, Nov. 1915; Ilonka Karasz (1896-1981), The masses, Dec. 1915; Kay (Gertrude Alice Kay) (1884-1939), The ladies' home journal, May 1924; Kliz (pseudonym of G.H.H. Clisbee) (1895-1936), Vanity fair, July 1922; Locher (Robert Evans Locher) (1888-1956), Vogue, Mar. 15 1916; Reinaldo Luza (Reynaldo Luza) (1893-1978), Vogue, Feb. 15 1921; C.A. MacLellan (Charles Archibald MacLellan) (1885-1961), Canadian home journal, Oct. 1912; R.S. McMullen (Ralph Spencer McMullen) (b. 1886), The Canadian courier, May 24 1919; Montagnac (20th cent.), Vanity fair, Feb. 1922; Gustave Adolphe Mossa (1883-1971), Harper's bazar, Mar. 1915; Eric Pape (1870-1938), The delineator, Feb. 1917; Peirson (David Peirson) (20th cent.), Vogue, Sept. 15 1911; HRP (Hal Ross Perrigard) (1891-1960), The Canadian Illustrated monthly, June 1920; Piorkowska (Olga May Piorkowski; Olga Thomas; Olga Wagstaff; Olga Newhall) (b. 1894), Harper's bazar, Sept. 1915; Joseph B. Platt (Joseph Brereton Platt) (1895-1968), Vogue, Aug. 1 1920; J.A. Radford (John A. Radford) (1860-1940), British Columbia magazine, July 1911; Louis J. Rhead (Louis John Rhead) (1857-1926), Harper's bazar, Thanksgiving [Nov.] 1894; David Robinson (20th cent.), Vogue, July 15 1911; Rundquist (Ethel Caroline Rundquist; Ethel Caroline Cobham) (1892-1977), Vanity fair, Jan. 1916; Albert Sterner (Albert Edward Sterner) (1863-1946), The delineator, Aug. 1909; William Ladd Taylor (1854-1926), The ladies' home journal, Oct. 1895 (unsigned); Thomas Thomas (20th cent.), Vogue, Feb. 1 1918 (unsigned); H.T. (Helen Thurlow) (b. 1889), Vogue, Sept. 15 1916.

File contains a magazine cover by Richard Porter Woodruff (1894-1959) from Vogue, May 1 1918.

File contains a magazine cover by Edward Arthur Wilson (1886-1970) from Harper's bazar, Apr. 1917.

File contains 7 magazine covers by Sarah S. Stilwell Weber (1878-1939) that include 3 covers not mounted in mats from Harper's bazar, Jan. 1914 and May 1915 and Vogue, Apr. 1 1913, and 4 matted covers from Harper's bazar, (box 27) Nov. 1913, and Feb. 1914; (box 28) Sept. 1914, and Vogue, Oct. 15 1912.