Box 11

Medium:
Paste-ups; design layout with images and text glued on storyboard

Illustrator(s):
No known Illustrator(s)

Known books with call numbers and possible books:
No definite match

Known nursery rhymes, fairy tales and stories:
Albert Alfred Allen
Alphabet
Bye, baby bunting
Charley loves good cake
Doodledy, doodledy, doodledy, dan
Elizabeth, Eliza, Betsy and Bess
Four and twenty tailors
Goosey, Goosey, Gander
Humpty-Dumpty
If I had a Donkey
Jack and Jill
Jack be nimble
King Boggen
Little Polly Flinders
Miss Jane had a bag
Now hush-a-bye, Baby
O, who is so merry, so airy
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater
Quixote Quicksight
Robert Barnes, fellow fine
Simple Simon
Tom, Tom the Piper’s son
Three children sliding on the ice
Upon my word and honor
Victoria Blue lost her pretty red shoe
Willie Boy, Willie boy
Xerxes Brown was my first suitor
You shall have an apple
Zacky, come give me your fiddle

Genre/subject of illustrations:
Illustrated alphabet
Mother Goose
Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales
Publishing process -- text and image layout

 

Selected Illustrations
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Folder 2

 


Folder 5


Folder 1 [cover] labeled “Merry Mother Goose Rhymes Noel Series No. 23 Shelf. No. 8”, 28 x 38 cm

Folder 2 Letters A-E of alphabet. Text and illustrations for “Albert Alfred Allen” with image of a child in nightclothes peering through a keyhole [note: image is same as drawing in Box 3 folder 5]; “Bye, baby bunting” with image of a child wrapped in a rabbit skin [note: image is same as drawing in Box 3 folder 23]; “Charley loves good cake” [no image]; “Doodledy, doodledy, doodledy, dan!” with image of a young boy playing the bagpipes [note: image is same as drawing in Box 6 folder 36]; Elizabeth, Eliza, Betsy and Bess [no image], 36.5 x 27 cm

Folder 3 Letters F-I of alphabet. Text and illustrations for “Four and twenty tailors” [no image]; “Goosey, Goosey, Gander” with image of a man in nightclothes holding a candlestick encountering a large goose; “Humpty-Dumpty” with image of an egg in clothes sitting on a wall; “If I had a donkey” with image of a boy and donkey on a path, the boy is trying to bait the him with a carrot, 37.5 x 27 cm

Folder 4 Letters J-M. Text and illustrations for “Jack and Jill” [no image]; “Jack be nimble” with silhouette of a boy jumping over a candlestick [note: image is same as drawing in Box 4 folder 23]; “King Boggen” [no image]; “Little Polly Flinders” with image of a girl sitting on a stool with her feet perched up on what appears to be a hearth, she is looking forward; “Miss Jane had a bag” with image of a girl in fine clothes surprised to see a mouse jumping from her bag, a cat is below, 36.5 x 27 cm

Folder 5 Letters N-Q. Text and illustrations for “Now hush-a-bye Baby” with image of an uncomfortable looking baby in a hammock; “O who is so merry” with image of a fairy smelling a daffodil; “Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater” with image of a boy wearing a large hat beside a pumpkin with a doll inside; “Quixote Quicksight” [no image], 37 x 27 cm

Folder 6 Letters R-U. Text and illustrations for “Robert Barnes, fellow fine” with image of a young boy with hands on hips, next to him is a blacksmith at an anvil holding a miniature horse; “Simple Simon” [no image]; “Tom, Tom the piper’s son” with image of a young boy running away with a pig; “Three children sliding on the ice” [no image]; “Upon my word and honor” with image of a young child next to a milestone approached by a pig [note: image is same as drawing in Box 3 folder 4], 36.5 x 27 cm

Folder 7 Letters V-Z. Text and illustrations for “Victoria Blue lost her pretty red shoe” with image of a girl in fine clothes looking down at a bare foot; “Willie Boy, Willie boy” [no image]; “Xerxes Brown was my first suitor” with image of a young man bowing before a lady holding a flower, the young man has a plate and a spoon in his pocket and a pig on a string; “You shall have an apple” [no image]; “Zacky, come give me your fiddle” with image of a young barefoot boy playing a fiddle [note: image is same as drawing in Box 3 folder 2], 26.5 x 27.5 cm

 

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