Kopman, Benjamin, b. 1887

Papers of the American Jewish painter, lithographer, etcher, illustrator, sculptor.Born in Russia. Correspondence (1911-1962), including a series of letters (1936-1958), some in scrapbook form, by Kopman to his art dealer, G.D. Thompson; manuscript poems, and prose, some in Yiddish; legal and financial papers; sketches; and photographs of Kopman's work and his family. Incoming letters, arranged alphabetically, include those from the Art Institute of Chicago, David Burliuk, the Federal Art Project, Rockwell Kent, Katharine Kuh, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Clifford Odets, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Hugo Robus, Frederic F. Sherman, Raphael Soyer, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Carl Zigrosser.

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891.

The Benson John Lossing Collection is an assortment of correspondence, drawings, writings, and memorabilia relating to the 19th century historian, illustrator, and editor of The American Historical Review (1813-1891). Predominantly correspondence, the collection centers around Lossing's information gathering for his popularizations of American history, while it also illuminates the early publishing industry in the United States.

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Printed and original artwork from the Russian-American artist painter and illustrator.

Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965

Spanning 1893 to 1966, the Boris Artzybasheff Papers comprises biographical material, correspondence, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the Russian-American artist (1899-1965), who is perhaps most widely known for the more than 200 covers of Time magazine he produced between 1941 and 1965. Illuminating Artzybasheff's unique and versatile artistic style as well as his life as an immigrant in the United States, the collection documents the career of the illustrator, painter, designer, and author.

Shaw, Charles Green, 1892-

Papers of the American author, illustrator, novelist, painter, poet. Correspondence (1916-1963); manuscript drafts of writings and poetry with original drawings by Shaw; exhibition catalogs; photographs; and scrapbooks of magazine articles and clippings compiled by Shaw of his and his friends' work (1921-1935). Incoming correspondence includes that of Josef Albers, Ruth Chatterton, George Gershwin, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The New Yorker, Maxwell Perkins, Smart Set, Deems Taylor, and Monty Woolley.

Mauro, Charles.

American newspaper cartoonist and illustrator. Collection includes artwork (original and printed/pubilished) and memorabilia.

Saxon, Charles, 1920-1988.

Original cartoons for Bennett Cerf's book Out on a Limerick.

Strauss, Charles.

Original cartoons, commercial and magazine illustrations, clippings, correspondence and photos.

Browning, Colleen.

Irish American painter. Collection contains photographs of her work, published articles and clippings.

Alajalov, Constantin, 1900-1987

Fan mail (1940-1950); published illustrations and covers from The New Yorker (1929-1960); and original drawings.

Fraser, David A.

Pitz's original pen-and-ink illustration of Long John Silver (with parrot) for a Grosset and Dunlap edition of Treasure Island, and correspondence between Pitz and David C. Fraser relating to Fraser's acquisition of it.

Freeman, Don, 1908-1978.

Papers of the American illustrator, author. Original texts and illustrations, printer's proofs, and published material.

Wilson, Edward A. (Edward Arthur), 1886-1970.

Spanning 1915 to 1963, the Edward A. Wilson Papers comprises biographical material, correspondence, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the Scottish-born illustrator, lithographer, and painter (1886-1970). The collection illuminates Wilson's artistic career, which ranged from book and magazine illustration to the design of advertisements, bookplates, magazine covers, postage stamps, and war posters.

Wilson, Elizabeth

Artwork, correspondence, memorabilia, printed material, and wiritings relating to American abstract artist Rhys Caparn

Fiene, Ernest

Original artwork set up for book illustration

Waugh, Coulton, 1896-1973.

Papers of the British born painter, cartoonist, illustrator, lithographer, engraver, textile designer, writer. Collection includes artwork, maps, printed material, photographs, textiles, writings and drawings of Coulton Waugh, wife Elizabeth Waugh, grandfather, portrait painter Samuel Bell Waugh, and father, marine artist Frederick Judd Waugh.

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center.

Original newspaper comic strip and comics cartoons, editorial cartoons and magazine cartoons/illustrations representative of the history of cartooning from the late 19th century to 1963; with some material from the 1990s.

Williams, Gluyas, 1888-1982.

Papers of the American cartoonist, illustrator. Original book illustrations for books by Robert Benchley, Edward Streeter, William Freeman, and Corey Ford, magazine cartoons for Cosmopolitan, Life and The New Yorker, and newspaper cartoons (1922-1947); correspondence, 1918-1949, and manuscript of a poem about Williams by Kenneth Bird and prefaces to Fellow Citizens (1941) and The Gluyas Williams Book, both by Robert Benchley (1929). Correspondents include Randolph G. Adams, Robert Benchley, Kenneth Bird, Charles Dana Gibson, G.S. Lobrano, Christopher Morley, D. Nassau, H.W. Ross, Frank Sullivan, and K.S. White.

Empie, Hal H., 1909-

Papers of the American cartoonist, illustrator and painter including drawings, cartoons, photographs and printed material

Durney, Helen R.

Spanning 1934 to 1942, the Helen R. Durney Papers comprises Artwork, Correspondence, Writings, and Memorabilia of the American illustrator (d.1970). In addition to the Dumbo material, the collection includes sketches for other projects, copies of Durney's column for Design Magazine, and a transcript of her radio program over station WFBL of Syracuse.