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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

cartoons (humorous images)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pictorial images, usually drawings, that are humorous or that use wit and satire to comment on contemporary events, social habits, political trends, or other topical subjects, often executed in a broad or abbreviated manner. Originally referred to full-page illustrations in a circulating paper or periodical, especially when comical and relating to current events.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Child scroll of cartoons

 Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: X031579400]
Identifier: MSS 16740
Content Description This collection contains a scroll of cartoon characters drawn by an unknown child, likely from sometime in the 1940s to the 1950s. The manila paper scroll is 3.25 inches in width and approximately 70 feet long. The outward-facing side of the scroll has about 250 individual illustrations depicting mid-century characters like Elmer Fudd, Dick Tracey, Archie, Popeye, and Donald Duck, as well as other characters from comic books, Sunday strips, television, and movies. The reverse is blank. The...
Dates: undated, c. 1940-1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Child scroll of cartoons

Child scroll of cartoons

 Unprocessed — Box 001: [Barcode: X031579400]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0031
Dates: undated, c. 1940-1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Edgar Wentworth cartoons and correspondence

 Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2019-0120
Dates: 1886 - 1912
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Szauer S. Ferencz World War I cartoon collection

 Collection — Box BW 35, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16553
Content Description This collection contains a private collection of approximately one hundred cartoons and caricatures of World War I propaganda. Most of the cartoons are written in German, but some are in Hungarian. Many are printed in color and were probably cut from magazines, but there are privately printed carbon copies too. Included in the front few pages is a folded poster titled "Humorist. Darstellung der Wappen unserer Feinde 1914" [Humorist. Depiction of the coats of arms of our enemies, 1914] and...
Dates: c. 1914-1918
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Szauer S. Ferencz World War I cartoon collection

LB Watts manuscript diary

 Unprocessed — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0152
Dates: ca. 1916-1944
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Devil's Steeplechase

 Unprocessed — Folder ViU2022-0087_001
Identifier: ViU-2022-0087
Dates: n.d, c.1830
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

L.B. Watts diary

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16624
Content Description A small hand-written and illustrated manuscript diary compiled by Commander LB Watts, RNR (Royal Navy Reserve) on his World War I and later service that holds details and information on the merchant ship, HMS City of London. The diary contains detailed lists of officers and men, armaments and technical diagrams, maps, newspaper clippings, and annotated cartoons.
Dates: ca. 1916-1944
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / L.B. Watts diary

Edgar Wentworth cartoons and correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16703
Content Description Edgar Wentwork archive of primary material documenting the career of a little-known American cartoon illustrator from 1886 to 1912. There are original cartoons and related correspondence containing approximately 295 pen and ink drawings and sketches, 125 illustrations,170 loose drawings, including his personal album, "Original Pen & Pencil Sketches, A Book of the Etiquette of the Day, by Ed. Wentworth, 1886." General warning: Twenty three of his cartoons portray racial...
Dates: 1886 - 1912
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Edgar Wentworth cartoons and correspondence