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By Mary Beth Rogers and Chuck Hill
Collection Overview
Title: Prints & Drawings Collection, 1833-1999
Extent: 0.45 Cubic Feet
Date Acquired: 10/07/2002
Languages: English, Chinese
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Prints & Drawings Collection consists of a variety of prints, lithographs, engravings and original art work that were mostly acquired as single items. There is little biographical, historical or acquisition information that would warrant the creation of a separate finding aid.
Collection Historical Note
The provenance of the majority of the material in this collection is unknown; however, if an individual item or group of documents has any acquisition information, it will be indicated in brackets at the end of the description. Where biographical or historical information is available it has been included in the description of the item(s) or a note has been made where to find that information.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
N/A
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
[
Box 1],
[
Box 2],
[Box 3],
[
Box 4],
[
Folder 1: Prints, Drawings, Poetry, 1835-1970],
[
Folder 2: Political Cartoons, circa 1960],
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All]
- Box 3
- Folder 1
- Item 1: If I'd a Known Hit Was You I'd a Stayd In Jail by F. C. Yohn, 1906
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. It is a court scene with an elderly man on the witness stand, a judge that is talking, an angry defendant, and an attentive audience. This image was also used as an illustration for A Knight of the Cumberland by John Fox
- Item 2: Valley View Ferry - A New Generation by Howard Fain, 1999
- Depicts the ferry John Craig taking a car across the Kentucky River. Published by the Valley View Ferry Authority, it is print 79/500 and contains the artists signature both as part of the print and in his hand
- Item 3: Bluebill Decoys by Thomas H, Cotney
- Limited edition of 3,000. Lithographed by Consolidated Printing.
- Folder 2: Jim Oliver Prints
- Item 1: White Tiger Cubs
- Plate 26, signed
- Item 2: White-tailed Deer, 1982
- Plate 30, signed
- Item 3: Zebras, 1982
- Plate 31, signed
- Item 4: Red-tailed Hawk, 1983
- Plate 35, signed
- Item 5: White Tiger, 1983
- Plate 34, signed
- Folder 3: Jim Oliver Prints
- Item 1: Great Horned Owls, 1984
- Plate 37, signed
- Item 2: Leopard, 1987
- Plate 46, signed
- Item 3: Baby Hard Seals, 1987
- Plate 47, signed
- Folder 4: Jean Surplus Collection (2007-002)
- Item 1: The Great American Steeplechase for 1844, 1843
- Political cartoon by H.R. Robinson that is a parody of the 1844 presidential election.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
Browse by Box:
[
Box 1],
[
Box 2],
[Box 3],
[
Box 4],
[
Folder 1: Prints, Drawings, Poetry, 1835-1970],
[
Folder 2: Political Cartoons, circa 1960],
[
All]
