Creator:
Posen, Alvah.
Inclusive Dates:
1919- 1959
Abstract:
Papers of the American comic strip cartoonist. Original artwork for product advertising for Pepsi-Cola and Wheaties, comic strips (proof sheets and clippings), correspondence, his idea file for comic strips (1922-1951), memorabilia and photographs. Correspondents include Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rube Goldberg, Vernon Greene, Fred Harman, W. Averell Harriman, National Cartoonists Society, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Charles M. Schulz, and Fred Waring.
Type of Material:
Awards.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Comics.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Proofs (printed matter)
Commercial art.
Subject:
Sweeney and son.
Them days are gone forever.
Rhymin time.
Jinglet.
Cartoonists.
Art -- Cartoonists
Advertising -- Food.
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Advertising -- Soft drinks.
Creator:
Thompson, Ray, 1905-1982
Inclusive Dates:
1919- 1965
Abstract:
The Ray Thompson Papers encompasses the artwork of the American cartoonist, in the form of both commercial and non-commercial material as well as original artwork.
Type of Material:
Cartoons (humorous images)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Commercial art.
Doodles.
Sketches.
Subject:
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) -- History, Local.
Cartoonists.
Art -- Cartoonists
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Cartoons and comics.
Commercial art -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Caricatures and cartoons.