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The collection includes posters and woodblock printed textiles from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Russia, and other Eastern European countries. The posters are mostly Soviet, East German, and Czech propaganda posters, focusing on war, politics, and tourism.

Materials donated from Silverfish Press, a company owned by Stanley Meltzoff. Meltzoff was an American illustrator and painter, known for his underwater fish paintings. He created many illustrations related to wildlife, portraiture, and American life.

This collection contains issues of The Male Figure, Physique Pictorial and Young Adonis.

The collection contains original artwork published in Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan. The original works of art feature mostly children and Kewpies. The collection also contains published materials in the format of books, proofs and tear sheets.

The collection includes material relating to Al Parker's personal and professional development, photographs of artist models, original artwork, and artwork reproduced from magazines.

The Robert Andrew Parker collection includes rich holdings of original artwork, book proofs, hundreds of tearsheets and related printed material.

This collection includes popular perioidcals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This collection includes original pen and ink drawings on board mainly dating from ca.1939.

This collection includes original artwork and published materials in various formats by Henry Raleigh, mainly dating between 1910 and 1940.

The collection includes over 200,000 magazine tearsheets, 8000 magazines, 1200 books, and approximately 150 original works by American illustrators from the late 19th century well into the mid 20th century. Currently, the original works of art and reproductions of original art (series 1 through 5) are processed and included in this finding aid. The tearsheets, magazines, and books are still unprocessed and may not be readily available to researchers. Please call ahead.