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Book illustrations -- ABC books
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Book illustrations -- Andersen
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Book illustrations -- Arabian nights
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9
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27
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59
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27
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15
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4
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7
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27
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3
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11
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66
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15
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17
Book illustrations -- Fables -- A-D
20
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34
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30
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12
Book illustrations -- Fables -- U-Z
19
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales
59
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28
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4
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Golden goose
4
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Goose girl
7
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Hop o' my thumb
13
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Lang
11
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Rumpelstiltskin
6
Book illustrations -- Frog prince
7
Book illustrations -- Grimm
51
Book illustrations -- Hansel and Gretel
4
Book illustrations -- Harris -- Little Mr. Thimblefinger
10
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5
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6
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14
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28
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20
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11
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9
Book illustrations -- Kingsley -- Water Babies
18
Book Illustrations -- Kingsley -- Westward ho!
16
Book illustrations -- Kipling
2
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15
Book illustrations -- Lear -- Nonsense songs
4
Book illustrations -- Little Red Riding Hood
32
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10
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17
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13
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43
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14
Book illustrations -- Puss in boots
18
Book illustrations -- Robin Hood
13
Book illustrations -- Sleeping beauty
17
Book illustrations -- Snow White
4
Book illustrations -- Spyri -- Heidi
34
Book illustrations -- Stevenson -- Black arrow
8
Book illustrations -- Stevenson -- Child's garden of verses
10
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7
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4
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18
Book illustrations -- Three little pigs
9
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7
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17
Books -- 1800s
4
Boys
4
Children -- 1800s
19
Children -- Playing
5
Fairies
11
Girls
3
Illustrations -- A-Z
9
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8
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5
Illustrations -- Brooke -- Johnny Crow's garden
8
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9
Illustrations -- Caldecott
4
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Baby bunting
6
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12
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16
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Elegy on the death of a mad dog
17
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize
12
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Farmer went trotting upon his grey mare
6
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Farmer's boy
22
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21
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13
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13
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6
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Three jovial huntsmen
17
Illustrations -- Crane
12
Illustrations -- Crane -- Baby's bouquet
16
Illustrations -- Crane -- Fairy ship
4
Illustrations -- Crane -- Flora's feast : a masque of flowers
8
Illustrations -- Crane -- Floral fantasy in an old English garden
20
Illustrations -- Crane -- Flowers from Shakespeare's garden : a posy from the plays
7
Illustrations -- Crane -- Goody Two Shoes
4
Illustrations -- Crane -- King Luckie Boy's party
5
Illustrations -- Crane -- Masque of days
3
Illustrations -- Crane -- Princess Belle-Etoile
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Collection Data
Description
Almost 2000 images illustrating classic tales told to children, drawn from relevant subject headings in the Picture Collection Reference files: Book illustrations, Nursery rhymes, Fairies, Illustrations, Children, Boys, and Girls.
Dates / Origin
Date Created:
1800 - 1923
(Approximate)
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Topics
Picture books for children
Childrens books
Genres
Illustrations
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a0108230-c5b9-012f-ed50-58d385a7bc34
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Fairy Tales
455
Nursery rhymes
293
Clothing & dress
261
Girls
209
Animals in human situations
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Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
209
Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
175
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886
164
Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
161
Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863. Kinder- und Haus-märchen
106
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Children's book illustrations
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England
103
Germany
38
New York (State)
14
France
13
United States
11
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genre
Illustrations
1987
Prints
11
Book illustrations
2
Cutouts
2
Illuminations
1
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publisher
Lefevre
2
A. L. Burt
1
A. Wessels Company
1
Century Co.
1
Gutmann & Gutmann
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division
Wallach Division: Picture Collection
1987
type
still image
1987
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A Apple Pie
B Bit It
C Cut It
D Dealt It
E Eat It
F Fought for It
G Got It
H Had It
J Jumped for It
K Knelt for It
m
L Longed for It
M Mourned for It
N Nodded for It
O Opened It
P Peeped in It
Q Quartered it.
R Ran for It
S Sang for It
T Took It
UVWXYZ All had a large slice …
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N-O P Q-R
S-T-U-V
Ee Ff Gg.
Hh Ii Jj.
Nn Oo Pp.
Tt Uu Vv.
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T U V.
Jump. Stump. Bump. Clump.
Cabriolet.
F Fishing.
The goloshes of Fortune.
The prince asked who she was …
["She played upon the ringing…
Waldemar Daa and his daughter…
She has read all the newspape…
The Snow Queen sat in the ver…
Arabian nights.
Arabian nights.
Arabian nights.
Scheherazade.
Aladdin and his wonderful lam…
Ali Baba and the forty thieve…
Sinbad the sailor.
The barber's fifth brother.
The talking bird.
The Queen of Beauty.
Princess Gulnare summoning he…
The lady advanced to meet him.
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