Illustrations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Sketches, Typescripts and Correspondence, mid 20th century
File
Identifier: Coll-2029/2/4
Scope and Contents
This folder contains handwritten and typed drafts of stories, some of which include edits. There are also drafts of poetry and pencil and ink drawings corresponding to Alison Tod's stories. Some of these drawings are signed and contain her address. The drawings include what was known as a "golliwog", a character created in 1895 by Florence Kate Upton that was popular until the 1960s-70s but was later perceived as a racist caricature.
Dates:
mid 20th century
Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)
Item
Identifier: La.III.522
Scope and Contents
MS La.III.522 is a composite manuscript of late-sixteenth and/or early-seventeenth century pieces of calligraphy, assembled by a later collector. The bulk of the manuscript is a combination of two different calligraphic alphabets with sample-texts, which follow the aspect and structure of early-modern writing-books. One of these decorative alphabets is composed of gothic, knotwork intials, while the other is structured by Roman capital letters against backgrounds of delicate, swirling vines....
Dates:
1570-1624 (approximate)
Volume entitled "James Ferguson's Common Place Book"
Fonds — Volume Dk.7.33
Identifier: Coll-2222
Scope and Contents
Fergusson, James. Volume entitled "James Ferguson's Common Place Book", 1775. Some inscriptions, or small portions of text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin. Contains highly detailed, illustrations, graphs, tables, diagrams, some with moving-parts, or folding-out. Interleaved with printed material.
Dates:
c 1775