Antes-Después (Before-After), 1981 / Four color photographs / Private collection
Katherine Milhous (November 27, 1894-December 5, 1977) was an American artist, illustrator, and writer. In 1951, her book The Egg Tree (1950) won the Caldecott Medal.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Milhous
Pennsylvania Costumes and Handicrafts, the Pennsylvania Germans by Katherine Milhous
c.1936-1941 / Lithographic poster promoting Lancaster County / Library of Congress, DC
Katherine Milhous on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/katherine-milhous/
Further reading:
https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Milhous__Katherine
http://www.postersforthepeople.com/field-update–blog/celebrating-katherine-milhous
https://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/womens-history-month/
Warja Honegger-Lavater (September 28, 1913-May 3, 2007) was a Swiss artist and illustrator best known for utilizing pictograms as graphic representations of language in her later work.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warja_Lavater
Homo sapiens? (Folded Story, no.13) by Warja Lavater
1965 / Lithographs on cream wove paper / 6-7/16″x3-5/8″x7/16″ / Toledo Museum of Art, OH
Warja Lavater’s “Twenty-three hundred years of medical costume”: https://bit.ly/2Y9fWrI
Further reading:
https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/4455/Honegger-Lavater/Warja
http://dallaslibrary2.org/blogs/bookedSolid/2020/02/warja-lavater-writing-pictures-and-drawing-books/
https://exhibits.library.illinois.edu/s/rbml/page/little-red-riding-hood
Margaret Neilson Armstrong (September 24, 1867-July 18, 1944) was a designer of cloth bookbindings who produced over 250 cover designs. She was also an accomplished botanist, editor, and author.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Neilson_Armstrong
Margaret Armstrong’s cover design and lettering for Twenty Centuries of Paris
Written by Mabell S.C. Smith / Published 1913 / Image from Women of Graphic Design
Margaret Neilson Armstrong covers and illustrations on The Met website: https://bit.ly/3kBYK6G
Further reading:
https://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/exhibits/margaretarmstrong/
https://rarebookschool.org/2005/exhibitions/armstrong.shtml
https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/3351
c.1880 / From the book Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de L’Ile de Java by Berthe Hoola van Nooten
Published by C. Muquardt, Brussels / Various collections, including Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO
16th century / From the Renaissance Library of the Pillone Family,
these particular volumes are now housed at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Photograph from Denver Public Library Special Collections & Archives
1912 signed limited edition / 11 small vignettes and 28 tipped-in color plates
Image size? / Hodder and Stoughton, New York and London
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From the book “A Series of Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey”
based on the series of paintings by Konstantin Kapıdağlı
1815 / Hand-colored mezzotints on gravure printing
Sheet 21 7/8”x16”; Image 5 1/16”x10 3/8” / Various collections incl. Art Institute of Chicago, IL
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1926 / Pencil sketch / “First sketch Winnie-the-Pooh” Chapter 1 / ©The Shepard Trust
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