Jessie Willcox Smith Collection

Dates: 1890-1990, bulk dates: 1900-1935
Size: 18 linear feet in 4 boxes, 155 volumes, 2 artworks
Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605
Collection Number: spe-jwsc
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Edward D. Nudelman, Fine and Rare Books
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Preferred Citation: When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Jessie Willcox Smith Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library
Finding Aid Author: Julia Olsen, 2007. Updated in 2023 by Michelle McCoy. Ingested into ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2023.

Abstract

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) was a prolific illustrator whose work appeared in children’s books, periodicals, and advertisements. The collection includes books, periodicals, calendars, prints, exhibition catalogs and promotional items that feature illustrations by Smith.

Biographical/Historical

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) was a prolific illustrator whose work appeared in children’s books, periodicals, and advertisements. Smith began her working life as a kindergarten teacher, a career she abandoned in her late teens when she discovered that she had a talent for drawing. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later at Drexel Institute under the celebrated illustrator Howard Pyle. During her time at Drexel, Smith met her lifelong friends and companions Violet Oakley and Elizabeth Shippen Green. Oakley, Green and Smith, along with their friend Henrietta Cozens, lived and worked together for years, and remained close throughout their lives.

Smith was famous for her depictions of mothers and children, which were done in a flat style that suggested an influence of art nouveau and Japanese prints. Some of Smith’s most famous works include her illustrations for Kingsley’s The Water-Babies, and the large number of Good Housekeeping covers she illustrated beginning in 1917.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains a wide range of works illustrated by Smith; from early appearances of her drawings in advertisements in 1893 to Good Housekeeping covers she produced in the last few years of her life. The bulk of the collection is composed of books that feature illustrations by Smith. Additionally, the collection contains catalogs of exhibitions that included Smith’s work, critical writings on her work, and a small number of biographical materials.

Arrangement

The Jessie Willcox Smith collection is organized to correspond with the categories and order set out in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography. Numbers that precede entries in the finding aid match numbered entries in Nudelman’s bibliography.

The collection is arranged into 12 series:

  • Series 1: American Editions of Books, 1890-1948
  • Series 2: English Editions of Books, 1897-1938, undated
  • Series 3: Periodicals, 1896-1933, undated
  • Series 4: Calendars, 1900-1929
  • Series 5: Advertisements, 1893-1931, undated
  • Series 6: Prints, 1907, undated
  • Series 7: Booklets, 1900, 1924
  • Series 8: Mock-ups, 1913
  • Series 9: Publishers’ Catalogs and Publishers’ Advertisements, 1897-1923, undated
  • Series 10: Art and Personal Items, 1903-1904                      
  • Series 11: Exhibition and Auction Catalogs, 1936-1976
  • Series 12: Reference, 1905-1990

Subject Headings

  • Children in art
  • Children’s literature -- Illustrations
  • Illustrators -- Books and Reading -- United States
  • Magazine illustration
  • Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935

Related Collections

  • Katherine Sturges Collection
  • P.F. Volland Company Records

Collection Inventory

Series 1: American Editions of Books, 1890-1948

Scope and Contents

Series 1 contains American book publications that contain illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (JWS). The volume numbers match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography. Volume numbers in square brackets [] were assigned by the archivist to follow Nudelman’s system.

Arrangement

Series 1 is listed alphabetically by title.

Volume A73   Art Stories Book One by William G. Whitford. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1 full-page color illustration, 1933
Volume A53   At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald, Philadelphia: David McKay, 8 full-page color illustrations, illustration on title page, color cover insert, pictorial endpapers and color illustration on dust jacket, [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 81], 1919
Volume A53.1   At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald, Philadelphia: David McKay, 8 full-page color illustrations, illustration on title page and cover insert, 1919
Volume A24   The Bed-Time Book by Helen Hay Whitney, New York: Duffield and Company, 6 full-page color illustrations, orange and black illustrations throughout, 1907
Volume A23   Billy-Boy by John Luther Long, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1 full-page color illustration and 3 full-page, black-and-white illustrations [possibly 1st issue per Nudelman, p. 47], 1906
Volume A23.1   Billy-Boy by John Luther Long, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1 full-page color illustration and 3 full-page, black-and-white illustrations [possibly second issue per Nudelman, p. 47], 1906
Volume A69   Bobs, King of the Fortunate Isle by A W Franchot, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., color frontispiece, reproduced on dust jacket, 1928
Volume A17   The Book of the Child, by Mabel Humphrey, 3 color illustrations, book covers1st ed., New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903
Volume A64   A Book of Lullabies by Elva S Smith, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1 full-page, black-and-white illustration, 1925
Volume A61   Boys and Girls of Bookland by Nora Archibald Smith, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 11 full-page color illustrations, color cover insert, and color illustration on dust jacket [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 91], 1923
Volume A61.1   Boys and Girls of Bookland by Nora Archibald Smith., Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 11 full-page color illustrations, color cover insert, 1923
Volume A61.2   Boys and Girls of Bookland by Nora Archibald Smith, Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 11 full-page color illustrations, color cover insert, and color illustration on dust jacket, 1923
Volume A7   Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Helen Leah Reed, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 5 full-page, black-and-white illustrations, 1900
Volume A13   Brenda’s Summer at Rockeley by Helen Leah Reed, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, includes 5 full-page, black-and-white illustrations, 1901
Volume A49   Bugs and Wings and Other Things Annie W. Franchot, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1 color illustration on frontispiece and dust jacket, 1918
Volume A49.1   Bugs and Wings and Other Things by Annie W. Franchot, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1 color illustration on frontispiece, 1918
Volume A66   A Child’s Book of Country Stories by Ada M Skinner and Eleanor L Skinner, New York: Duffield and Company, 4 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, 1925
Volume A79   A Child’s Book of Country Stories by Ada M Skinner and Eleanor L Skinner.  New York: The Dial Press, 4 full-page color illustrations, color cover insert and color illustrated dust jacket, 1935
Volume A85   A Child’s Book of Famous Stories by Penrhyn W. Coussens, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 4 full-page color illustrations, 1940
Volume 54   A Child’s Book of Modern Stories edited by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor M. Skinner, New York: Duffield and Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, 1920
Volume A76   A Child’s Book of Modern Stories by Ada M Skinner and Eleanor L Skinner.  New York: The Dial Press, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, illustrated dust jacket and illustrated cover box, 1935
Volume A76.1   A Child’s Book of Modern Stories by Ada M Skinner and Eleanor L Skinner.  New York: The Dial Press, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, and illustrated dust jacket [lacks original box and date on title page], 1935
Volume A30   A Child’s Book of Old Verses by Jessie Willcox Smith, New York: Duffield and Company, 10 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, and black-and-white drawings throughout [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 54], 1910
Volume A74   A Child’s Book of Old Verses by Jessie Willcox Smith, New York: The Dial Press, 10 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, illustrated dust jacket, and black-and-white drawings throughout [lacks original box], 1935
Volume A33   A Child’s Book of Stories by Penrhyn W. Coussens, New York: Duffield & Company, 10 full-page color illustrations and color cover insert [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 57], 1911
Box 1 Folder 2 A Child’s Book of Stories (A33) by Penrhyn W. Coussens, New York: Duffield & Company, 7 color plates from A Child’s Book of Stories: “Hansel and Gretel,” “The Goose Girl,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Snow-white and Rose-red,” “Cinderella,” “Red Riding-hood,” and “Sleeping Beauty,” 1911
Volume [A86]   A Child’s Book of Stories selected by Penrhyn W. Coussens.  New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 11 full-page color illustrations, color illustration on dust jacket [not in Nudelman], 1948
Volume A22   A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 12 full-page color illustrations, black-and-white line drawings throughout, front cover insert, title page, and endpaper illustrations [possibly earliest issue per Nudelman, p.46], 1905
Volume A22.1   A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 12 full-page color illustrations, black-and-white line drawings throughout, front cover insert, title page, and endpaper illustrations [later printing], 1905
Volume A63   A Child’s Prayer by Cora Cassard Toogood. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1 full-page color illustration repeated on dust jacket, line drawings throughout, inscribed by author, 1925
Volume A63.1   A Child’s Prayer by Cora Cassard Toogood, Philadelphia: David McKay Company, color cover illustration and line drawings throughout, 1925
Volume A42   A Child’s Stamp Book of Old Verses by Jessie Wilcox Smith, New York: Duffield & Company, 12 color illustrations in the form of stamps, black-and-white headpiece, 1915
Volume A65   The Children of Dickens by Samuel McChord Crothers, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 10 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover of book and dust jacket [variant first issue per Nudelman, p. 97], 1925
Volume A65.1   The Children of Dickens by Samuel McChord Crothers, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 10 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover of book and dust jacket [later printing with variant dust jacket], 1926
Volume A65.2   The Children of Dickens by Samuel McChord Crothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 10 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover of book and dust jacket, 1929
Volume A65.3   The Children of Dickens by Samuel McChord Crothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 10 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover of book and dust jacket, 1946
Volume A28   The Chronicles of Rhoda by Florence Tinsley Cox, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 2 full-page color illustrations, 1909
Volume A35   Dickens’s Children by Jessie Willcox Smith, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 10 full-page color illustrations and cover insert [first issue includes black-and-white reproduction on front endpaper], 1912
Volume A35.1   Dickens’s Children by Jessie Willcox Smith, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 10 full-page color illustrations and cover insert, 1912
Volume A26   Dream Blocks by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, New York: Duffield & Company, 15 full-page color illustrations, color title page, pictorial endpapers, and red and black line drawings throughout illustrated [missing color plate between page 34 and 35], 1908
Volume A3   Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., includes 5 color illustrations and 6 head pieces (chapters 1, 3, 7, 9, 11 and 12; binding A is green cloth), 1897
Volume A3.1   Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., includes 5 color illustrations and 6 head pieces (chapters 1, 3, 7, 9, 11 and 12; binding B is red cloth with plain endpapers), 1897
Volume A46.5   Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 3 black-and-white illustrations [not in Nudelman], 1916
Volume A44   The Everyday Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapman, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 7 full-page color illustrations, cover insert and black-and white vignette on title page, 1915
Volume A51   Fairy and Wonder Tales edited by William Patten, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1 full-page, black-and-white illustration, 1918
Volume A32   The Five Senses by Angela M Keyes, New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 5 full-page color illustrations, 1911
Volume A68   Folk-Lore, Fables, and Fairy Tales), New York: The University Society, 1 full-page, black-and-white illustration (p.156), 1927
Volume A84   Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob and William Grimm, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, color pictorial cover jacket, [1940?]
Volume A4   The Head of a Hundred by Maud Wilder Goodwin, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., includes 2 full-page, black-and-white illustrations, 1897
Volume A4.1   The Head of a Hundred by Maud Wilder Goodwin, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., includes 2 full-page, black-and-white illustrations, 1899
Volume A6   The Head of a Hundred by Maud Wilder Goodwin, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., includes 1 color and 2 black-and-white illustrations (copy inscription states that this was Smith’s own copy, and publishers’ “compliments” sheet is laid in), 1900
Volume A58   Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 10 full-page color illustrations, color illustrated title page, tinted pictorial endpapers, color cover insert and line drawings throughout [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 88], 1922
Volume A58.1   Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 10 full-page color illustrations, color illustrated title page, tinted pictorial endpapers, color cover insert and line drawings throughout [later issue without colored line drawings], 1922
Volume A1   Ideal Heads by Ida Waugh, Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, includes 1 black-and-white illustration, 1890
Volume A20   In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 8 full-page color illustrations, 1904
Box 1 Folder 1 In the Closed Room (A20) by Frances Hodgson Burnett, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 4 color plate illustrations, “Come and play with me,’” “She must go and stand at the door …”, “The ledge of the window…”, and “’I’m going up to play…’”, 1904
Volume A21   In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 4 full-page color illustrations and cover inlay (illustrations also appear in A20), 1904
Volume A39   The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose by Jessie Willcox Smith, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 12 full-page color and 5 black-and-white illustrations, cover insert and line drawings throughout [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 65], 1914
Volume A72   Kitchen Fun: A Cook Book for Children by Louise Price Bell, Cleveland: The Harter Publishing Company, color pictorial cover [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 104], 1932
Volume A72.1   Kitchen Fun: A Cook Book for Children by Louise Price Bell, Cleveland: The Harter Publishing Company, color pictorial cover [binding B, Nudelman, p. 104), 1932
Volume A72.2   Kitchen Fun: A Cook Book for Children by Louise Price Bell, Cleveland: The Harter Publishing Company, color pictorial cover [binding B, Nudelman, p. 104], 1932
Volume A72.3   Kitchen Fun: A Cook Book for Children by Louise Price Bell, Perks Publishing, color pictorial cover [in cardboard wrapper], 1946
Volume A72.4   Kitchen Fun: A Cook Book for Children by Louise Price Bell, Cleveland: The Harter Publishing Company, color pictorial cover [binding B with printed endpapers, Nudelman, p. 104], 1932
Volume A81   Listen and Sing by Maybelle Glenn, et al. Boston: Ginn and Company, 2 full-page color illustrations, 1936
Volume A81.1   Listen and Sing by Maybelle Glenn, et al. Boston: Ginn and Company, 2 full-page color illustrations [“enlarged edition” reissue], 1943
Volume A59   A Little Child’s Book of Stories by Ada M Skinner and Eleanor L Skinner, New York: Duffield and Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, 1922
Volume A77   A Little Child’s Book of Stories by Ada M Skinner and Eleanor L Skinner.  New York: The Dial Press, 8 full-page color illustrations, color cover insert, color dust jacket and box illustrations, 1935
Volume A50   Little Folks Illustrated Annual by Charles Stuart Pratt and Ella Farman Pratt, Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, color frontispiece and color insert on cover (repeated on dust jacket), 1918
Volume A15   Little Mistress Goodhope by Mary Imlay Taylor, Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, includes 1 full-page color illustration, tinted illustrations and initials at chapter heads, one vignette at end, 1902
Volume A15.1   Little Mistress Goodhope by Mary Imlay Taylor, Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, includes 1 full-page color illustration, tinted illustrations and initials at chapter heads, one vignette at end, 1902
Volume A48   The Little Mother Goose by Jessie Wilcox Smith, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 12 full-page color illustrations, black-and-white drawings throughout, pictorial cover insert [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 76; frontispiece facing half-title instead of title], 1918
Volume A48.1   The Little Mother Goose by Jessie Wilcox Smith, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 11 full-page color illustrations [missing 1 illustration], black-and-white drawings throughout and pictorial cover insert, 1918
Volume A48.2   The Little Mother Goose by Jessie Wilcox Smith, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 12 full-page color illustrations, black-and-white drawings throughout, pictorial cover [blue stamped drawing is missing one of the color illustrations facing p. 120 and is slightly smaller], 1918
Volume A48.3   The Little Mother Goose by Jessie Wilcox Smith, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 12 full-page color illustrations, black-and-white drawings throughout and pictorial cover insert [missing illustration list, illustrations are interspersed throughout text differently; cover insert has white background instead of gilt, and cover- width is 2.3 cm], 1918
Volume A48.4   The Little Mother Goose by Jessie Wilcox Smith, Toronto: The Musson Book Co., 12 full-page color illustrations, black-and-white drawings throughout and pictorial cover insert, 1921
Volume A43   Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 8 full-page color illustrations and cover insert [missing original box], 1915
Volume A57   Little Women by Louisa M Alcott, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, 1922
Volume A57.1   Little Women by Louisa M Alcott, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, illustration on dust jacket [reprint as part of The Beacon Hill Bookshelf series], 1930
Volume A57.2   Little Women by Louisa M Alcott. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 3 full-page color illustrations, illustration on dust jacket [Orchard House Edition reissue], 1945
Volume A56   The Lullaby Book by Annie Blanche Shelby, New York: Duffield & Company, 1 full-page color illustration on frontispiece and reproduced on dust jacket, 1921
Volume A62   Memories and a Garden by Emily Eldredge Saville, privately printed, 1 full-page color illustration [incomplete dust jacket], 1924
Volume A11   Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, includes 1 full-page, black-and-white illustration in vol. 1, 1900
Volume A40   Mother Goose Melodies Toybooks by Jessie Willcox Smith, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 12 card wrapper toy books with a color cover illustration and line drawings throughout, 1914
Volume A2   New and True by Mary Wiley Staver, Boston: Lee and Shepard, includes 4 full-page and 11 half-page black-and-white illustrations, 1892
Volume A34   The Now-a-Days Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 6 color plates and cover insert [first issue with tipped-on plates, original glassine cover jacket, and captioned tissue guards], 1911
Volume A34.1   The Now-a-Days Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin, New York: Prospect Press, 6 full-page color illustrations and cover insert, 1913
Volume A16   An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, includes 12 full-page, black-and-white illustrations and one vignette on title page, 1902
Volume A16.1   An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, includes 12 full-page, black-and-white illustrations and one vignette on title page, 1913
Volume A37   A Peregrination of Philadelphia by A. Edward Newton, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1 illustration, undated
Volume A52   Poems Old and New by Patten, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1 full-page, black-and-white illustration, [spine text different from Nudelman, p.80], 1918
Volume A55   The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. Philadelphia: David McKay, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, pictorial dust jacket, title illustration and pictorial endpapers [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 84], 1920
Volume A55.1   The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, Philadelphia: David McKay, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, pictorial dust jacket, title illustration and pictorial endpapers, 1920
Volume A55.2   The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, Philadelphia: David McKay, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, pictorial dust jacket, title illustration and pictorial endpapers, 1920
Volume A55.3   The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, Philadelphia: David McKay, 4 full-page color illustrations and color insert on front cover [later reissue of title in a smaller size as part of the Newberry Classics Series], 1920
Volume A55.4   The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, Philadelphia: David McKay, 4 full-page color illustrations and color insert on front cover [reissue of title in green cloth], 1920
Volume A8   Reminiscences of the Old Chest of Drawers by Sarah Cauffman Sill. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, includes 6 full-page, black-and-white illustrations and line drawings throughout (copy inscription states that this was Smith’s own copy), 1900
Volume A70   Rhymes and Reminiscences by Henry Martin Saville.  Boston: The Stratford Company, color frontispiece, 1929
Volume A71   Little Paul’s Christ-Child by Kathryn Jarboe Bull, [publisher not identified], 2 black and white illustrations, 1929
Volume A18   Rhymes of Real Children by Betty Sage, New York: Fox, Duffield and Company, 6 full-page color illustrations, color pictorial covers, vignette on dedication page, orange and black line drawings as borders throughout, 1903
Volume A29   The Seven Ages of Childhood by Carolyn Wells, New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 7 full-page color illustrations, brown line drawings throughout text, color insert on cover, and pictorial endpapers, 1909
Volume A29.1   The Seven Ages of Childhood by Carolyn Wells, Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., reissued edition with 7 full-page color illustrations, brown line drawings throughout text, color insert on cover, and pictorial endpapers, 1909
Volume A31   Sonny’s Father by Ruth McEnery Stuart, New York: The Century Co., 2 full-page, black-and-white illustrations, 1910
Volume A12   Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, includes 1 full-page, black-and-white illustration, 1900
Volume A25   Ten to Seventeen by Josephine Daskam Bacon, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 3 full-page tinted illustrations, 1908
Volume A27   Thirty Favorite Paintings New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 2 full-page illustrations [some damage to image], 1909
Volume A27.1   Thirty Favorite Paintings New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 2 full-page illustrations, 1909
Volume A19   Truth Dexter by Sidney McCall, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1 black-and-white illustration, 1903
Volume A19.1   Truth Dexter by Sidney McCall, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1 black-and-white illustration, 1906
Volume A82.1   Tuning Up by Maybelle Glenn, et al. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1 full-page color illustration [“enlarged edition” reissue], 1943
Volume A36   Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 12 full-page color illustrations, red and black line drawings throughout and pictorial endpapers, 1912
Volume A36.1   Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 12 full-page color illustrations, red and black line drawings throughout and pictorial endpapers [wider red cloth spine and lighter paper than A36], 1912
Volume A60   A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories by Ada M Skinner and Eleanor L Skinner, New York: Duffield and Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, 1923
Volume A45   The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 12 full-page color illustrations, color cover insert, color illustration on box, green and black line drawings throughout [possibly first issue, Nudelman, p. 71], 1916
Volume A45.1   The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 11 color plates tipped in, cover insert, grey and black line drawings throughout [missing box], 1916
Volume A46   The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, front cover insert, line drawings throughout and pictorial endpapers [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 74], 1916
Volume A46.1   The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, front cover insert and line drawings throughout [possibly second issue per Nudelman, p. 74], 1916
Volume A46.2   The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 8 full-page color illustrations, pictorial dust jacket and line drawings throughout [dark green cloth with black stamped text, cover without pictorial insert, dust jacket], 1916
Volume A80   The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, back-and-white illustrations throughout, [1936?]
Volume A83   The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 4 full-page color illustrations, color cover insert and line drawings throughout, 1937
Volume A47   The Way to Wonderland Mary Stewart, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 6 full-page color illustrations, cover insert [possibly first issue per Nudelman, p. 75), 1917
Volume A47.1   The Way to Wonderland by Mary Stewart. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 6 full-page color illustrations, cover insert, 1917
Volume A41   When Christmas Comes Around by Priscilla Underwood, New York: Duffield & Company, 6 full-page color illustrations, covers, pictorial endpapers and orange line drawings throughout, 1915
Volume A67   When Mother Lets Us Make Paper Box Furniture by G. Ellingwood Rich, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, color dust jacket illustration, 1925
Volume A5   The Young Puritans in Captivity by Mary P. Wells Smith. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., includes 6 full-page, black-and-white illustrations, 1899
Volume A5.1   The Young Puritans in Captivity by Mary P. Wells Smith, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., includes 6 full-page, black-and-white illustrations, 1899

Series 2: English Editions of Books, 1897-1938, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 2 contains English book publications that contain illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (JWS). The numbers in parentheses following the title match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography. Volume numbers in square brackets [] were assigned by the archivist to follow Nudelman’s system.

Arrangement

Series 2 is listed alphabetically by title.

Volume B10 A Child’s Book of Stories by Penrhyn W. Coussens, London: Chatto & Windus, 10 full-page color illustrations, cover insert on front cover, 1913
Volume B8 A Child’s Book of Verses by Jessie Willcox Smith, London: Chatto & Windus, 10 full-page color illustrations, line drawing on title page and pictorial endpapers, 1912
Volume B3 A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, London: Longmans Green and Co., 12 full-page color illustrations, color illustrations on title page, color cover insert, pictorial endpapers and line drawings throughout, 1905
Volume B9 Dickens’s Children by Jessie Willcox Smith, London: Chatto & Windus, 10 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, 1912
Volume B7   Dream Blocks by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, London: Chatto & Windus, 14 full-page color illustrations, color illustrated title page, color pictorial insert on cover, red and black drawings throughout and pictorial endpapers [missing pages 1-4, 13-18, and 31-34, and six color plates: “Stupid You,” “Doorsteps,” “Rainy Day,” “Runaway,” “Home,” and “Punishment”], 1911
Volume B1   Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: Gay and Bird, 5 full-page color illustrations and 6 head pieces (chapters 1, 3, 7, 9, 11 and 12), 1897
Volume B18 The Everyday and Now-a-day Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin.  London: J. Coker & Co., 14 full-page color illustrations [missing illustration “She knew she could eat one whenever…” between pp. 54 and 55], undated
Volume B19   The Everyday and Now-a-day Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin, London: J. Coker & Co., 8 color illustrations [missing frontispiece], undated
Volume B20   The Everyday Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin, London: J. Coker & Co., 7 full-page color illustrations, color insert on cover, undated
Volume B12   The Everyday Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin, London: George G. Harrap & Co., 7 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, 1917
Volume B12.1   The Everyday Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin, London: George G. Harrap & Co., 7 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, 1917
Volume B2   In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 8 full-page color illustrations color pictorial stamped cover after JWS, 1904
Volume [B22.5] Mother Goose London: Hodder and Stoughton, 12 full-page color plates, line drawings throughout [not listed in Nudelman; part of Hodder and Stoughton’s Colour Books series], 1938
Volume B16 The Now-a-days Fairy Book by Anna Alice Chapin, George G. Harrap & Co., 6 full-page color illustrations, color insert on front cover, undated
Volume B13 The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 12 tipped-in color illustrations, line drawings throughout in green, color insert on cover jacket, 1919
Volume B22   The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 12 full-page color plates, black-and-white drawings throughout, illustration on dust jacket [dust jacket variant from Nudelman p.142], 1938
Volume B17 The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, London: Boots the Chemists, 12 tipped-in color illustrations, green drawings throughout, undated
Volume B14 The Way to Wonderland by Mary Stewart, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 5 tipped-in color illustrations (originally had six color illustrations; “Merry Christmas” illustration facing p. 144 is missing), 1920

Series 3: Periodicals, 1896-1933, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 3 contains illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (JWS) that appeared in various popular periodicals.

Arrangement

Series 3 is arranged alphabetically by periodical title.

Box 4 Folder 1 Century Magazine, 3 full-page, 4 half-page and 2 quarter-page black-and-white illustrations by JWS, pages 175-186 [identification based on Nudelman, p. 145], 1902 December
Box 4 Folder 2 Collier’s Magazine, tinted cover illustration, 1904 June 25
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1918 June
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1918 August
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1918 December
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration (2 copies, 1 cropped), 1919 February
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1919 March
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1919 July
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration (2 copies, 1 cropped), 1919 September
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, (2 copies, 1 cropped), 1919 December
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1920 March
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration (portion only) [identification based on Nudelman, p.147], 1920 April
Box 2 Folder 1 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration (portion only) [identification based on Nudelman, p.147], 1920 June
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1921 March
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1921 May
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1922 September
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1922 November
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1923 February
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1923 May
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1923 June
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1923 July
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1923 September
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1923 October
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1923 November
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 January
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 March
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 April
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 May
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 June
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 July
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 August
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 September
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 October
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1924 November
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 January
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 February
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 March
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 April
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 May
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 June
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 August
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 September
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 October
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 November
Box 2 Folder 2 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1925 December
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 January
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 February
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 March
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 April
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 May
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 June
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 July
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 August
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 September
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 October
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 November
Box 2 Folder 3 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1926 December
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 January
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 February
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 March
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 April
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 May
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 June
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 July
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 August
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 September
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 October
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 November
Box 2 Folder 4 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1927 December
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 February
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 March
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 April
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 June
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 July
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 August
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 September
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 October
Box 2 Folder 5 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1928 December
Box 2 Folder 6 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1929 February
Box 2 Folder 6 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1929 March
Box 2 Folder 6 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1929 May
Box 2 Folder 6 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1929 July
Box 2 Folder 6 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1929 October
Box 2 Folder 6 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1929 November
Box 2 Folder 6 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1929 December
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1930 January
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1930 March
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1930 April
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1930 June
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1930 July
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1930 September
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1930 October
Box 2 Folder 7 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration (2 copies, 1 cropped), 1930 November
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 February
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 March
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 June
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 July
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 August
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 September
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 October
Box 2 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1931 December
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 February
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 March
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 April
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 May
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 June
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 July
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 August
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 September
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 October
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1932 November
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration (2 copies, 1 cropped), 1932 December
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1933 January
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1933 March
Box 2 Folder 9 Good Housekeeping, color front cover illustration, 1933 April
Box 4 Folder 3 Ladies’ Home Journal, 4 black-and-white illustrations (pp. 5-6), 1896 September
Box 4 Folder 4 Ladies’ Home Journal, tinted front cover illustration, 1904 May
Box 4 Folder 5 Ladies’ Home Journal, 1 full-page, black-and-white illustration (pp. 5-6), 1905 July
Box 4 Folder 6 McClure’s Magazine, 3 full-page and 1 three-quarter-page color illustrations [identification based on Nudelman, p.152], 1903 September
Box 4 Folder 7 Red Cross Magazine, color cover illustration, 1918 December
Box 4 Folder 8 Scribner’s, 2 full-page, 1 quarter-page, and 1 half-page black-and-white illustrations [identification based on Nudelman, p. 153], 1900 December
Box 4 Folder 9 Scribner’s, 4 full-page color plates, “Dickens’s Children” [identification based on Nudelman, p.153]., 1911 December
Box 4 Folder 10 Scribner’s, color plate, “Wee Willie Winkie,” [identification based on Nudelman, p. 153], 1915 January
Box 4 Folder 11 Southern Woman’s Magazine, tinted front cover illustration, 1918 February
Box 4 Folder 12 Woman’s Home Companion, tinted front cover illustration, 1897 March
Box 4 Folder 13 Woman’s Home Companion, tinted front cover illustration (2 copies), 1897 August
Box 4 Folder 14 Woman’s Home Companion, 2 black-and-white illustrations, “The Magical Rose,” p.5, [not in Nudelman], 1898 July
Box 4 Folder 15 Woman’s Home Companion, tinted front cover illustration, 1898 August
Box 4 Folder 16 Woman’s Home Companion, black-and-white front cover illustration [not in Nudelman], 1898 October
Box 4 Folder 17 Unidentified publication, color tinted illustration of a woman holding a baby (4 copies), undated
Box 4 Folder 18 Unidentified publication, 1 black-and-white illustration from the “Seven Ages of Childhood” series: “Then the toddling baby boy…,” [possibly Ladies’ Home Journal, per Nudelman p. 152], 1908 December
Box 4 Folder 19 Unidentified publication, color illustration of a woman and a boy on a beach, undated
Box 4 Folder 20 Unidentified publication, color illustration of a child wrapping Christmas presents, undated
Box 4 Folder 21 Unidentified publication, 2 full-page, black-and-white illustrations by Eugenie M. Wireman (pages 321-324 only), undated

Series 4: Calendars, 1900-1929

Scope and Contents

Series 4 contains calendars illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith (JWS). The numbers in parentheses following the title match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography.

Arrangement

Series 4 is arranged chronologically.

Box 3 Folder 1 Bryn Mawr College Calendar 1901 (C1) designed by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green, 6 full-page color illustrations, 1900
Box 3 Folder 2 Bryn Mawr College Calendar 1902 (C2) designed by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green, 5 full-page color illustrations, 1901
Box 3 Folder 33 “The Child”: A Calendar-1903 (C3) by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green, Philadelphia: C.W. Beck, Jr., 3 large and 12 small color illustrations (disbound calendar pages), 1902
Box 3 Folder 3 Bryn Mawr College Calendar 1909 (C5) designed by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green, 4 full-page color illustrations, 1908
Box 3 Folder 4 “Swift’s Premium” Calendar 1916 (C9), 4 three-quarter page color illustrations, 1915
Box 3 Folder 5 Needlecraft (C9.a) 1 black-and-white advertisement, “Swift’s Premium” Calendar for 1916, p. 21, 1916 January
Box 3 Folder 6 The Cheery Word Calendar for 1923 (C11.5), New York: Dodge Publishing Co., color cover illustration [not in Nudelman], 1922
Box 3 Folder 7 Buffalo Evening News Calendar for 1930 (C12) Philadelphia: Wolf Company, 1 large sheet with color illustration [missing the calendar accompanying the illustration], 1929

Series 5: Advertisements, 1893-1931, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 5 contains illustrated advertisements Jessie Willcox Smith created for various consumer products.

Arrangement

Series 5 is arranged alphabetically by advertiser name.

Box 3 Folder 8 American Radiator Company, 1 full-page color illustrated advertisement in Redbook, [not in Nudelman], 1925 June
Box 3 Folder 9 Campbell’s Soup Company, 1 full-page color illustrated advertisement in American Magazine, 1931 June
Box 3 Folder 10 Campbell’s Soup Company, 1 full-page color illustrated advertisement in Delineator, 1931 June
Box 3 Folder 11 Campbell’s Soup Company, 1 full-page black-and-white illustrated advertisement in Vanity Fair, 1931 June
Box 3 Folder 12 Eastman Kodak Company, 1 full-page color illustrated advertisement in Metropolitan, 1904 December
Box 3 Folder 13 Everett Piano, 1 black-and-white illustrated advertisement in The Ladies’ Home Journal, Supplement p. 5 [not in Nudelman], 1893 April
Box 3 Folder 14 Fisk Tire Company, color illustrated advertisement in unidentified publication [matches Nudelman’s description p. 167], undated
Box 3 Folder 15 Fleischmann Company, color illustrated advertisement in unidentified publication [matches black-and-white Fleischmann advertisement reproduced on p. 166], undated
Box 3 Folder 16 Hires’ Root Beer, 1 black-and-white illustrated advertisement in The Ladies’ Home Journal [not in Nudelman], 1893 June
Box 1 Folder 13 Just Food Company, Baby’s Red Letter Days, publication, includes correspondence, ordering instructions and envelope,
Box 3 Folder 17 Proctor & Gamble Company, Ivory Soap, 1 black-and-white illustrated advertisement in Scribner’s Magazine, 1901 October
Box 3 Folder 18 Proctor & Gamble Company, Ivory Soap, 1 black-and-white illustrated advertisement in The Youth’s Companion, 1901 August 1
Box 3 Folder 19 Proctor & Gamble Company, Ivory Soap, 1 black-and-white illustrated advertisement in unidentified publication (cropped page), undated
Box 3 Folder 20 Quaker Oats Company, 1 color illustrated advertisement in The Ladies’ Home Journal (cropped page), 1926 October
Box 3 Folder 21 Quaker Oats Company, 1 full-page color illustrated advertisement in McCall’s Magazine, 1927 October
Box 3 Folder 22 The Standard Lighting Company, 1 black-and-white illustrated advertisement in The Ladies’ Home Journal [not in Nudelman], 1893 May

Series 6: Prints, 1907, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 6 contains prints of Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations. The numbers in parentheses following the title match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography.

Arrangement

Series 6 has been retained in Nudelman’s order with “The Child” print set added at the end.

Box 3 Folder 23 Billy Boy,” (P7) 1 color print reproduction of Collier’s cover illustration from 1905 December 30, Collier’s Print Department, undated
Box 3 Folder 24 “Smelling,” (P8.1) 1 color print from series “The Five Senses,” Charles W. Beck Engraving Company, 1907
Box 3 Folder 25 “Smelling,” (P8.1.a) 1 color print, unidentified publisher [not in Nudelman], undated
Box 3 Folder 26 “Touching,” (P8.2) 1 color print from series “The Five Senses,” Charles W. Beck Engraving Company, 1907
Box 3 Folder 27 “Touching,” (P8.2.a) 1 color print, unidentified publisher [not in Nudelman], undated
Box 3 Folder 28 “Tasting,” (P8.3) 1 color print from series “The Five Senses,” Charles W. Beck Engraving Company, 1907
Box 3 Folder 29 “Tasting,” (P8.3.a) 1 color print, unidentified publisher [not in Nudelman], undated
Box 3 Folder 30 “Hearing,” (P8.4) 1 color print, unidentified publisher [not in Nudelman], undated
Box 3 Folder 31 “Seeing,” (P8.5) 1 color print, unidentified publisher [not in Nudelman], undated
Box 3 Folder 32 Untitled (P10), color reprint of illustration from August 1922 Good Housekeeping cover unidentified publisher [not in Nudelman, copy appears to be cropped], undated
Box 4   “The Child” [See also A17], 7 facsimile prints, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903

Series 7: Booklets, 1900, 1924

Scope and Contents

Series 7 contains booklets with Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations.

Arrangement

Series 7 is arranged chronologically.

Box 1 Folder 3 The Homes Successful, New York: American Radiator Co., color illustration on covers of pamphlet [Nudelman, p.173], 1900
Box 1 Folder 4 “Illustrating,” Lessons 1-6.  Scranton, PA: Correspondence Institute of America, 6 pamphlets, 1 black-and-white drawing in “Lesson 3” pamphlet [Nudelman, p.173], 1900
Box 1 Folder 5 Bryn Mawr College Class Book for 1924, 6 full-page, black-and-white illustrations [Nudelman, p.173], 1924

Series 8: Mockups, 1913

Scope and Contents

Series 8 contains the mockup of a book with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The numbers in parentheses following the title match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography.

Arrangement

Series 8 contains one item.

Volume [M1] “My Starry Solitudes,” by Elizabeth McCracken, “assembled” book with “My Starry Solitudes” article and 3 black-and-white illustrations pasted in [possibly a pre-publication mockup, text annotated with corrections, Nudelman notes the illustrations are unique drawn to match the text], inscribed by author on front free endpaper, 1913

Series 9: Publishers’ Catalogs and Publishers’ Advertisements, 1897-1923, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 9 contains catalogs that include publications with Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations.

Arrangement

Series 9 is arranged chronologically.

Box 1 Folder 6 Holiday Bulletin, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, book catalog contains a black-and-white reproduction of an illustration for Longfellow’s Evangeline (see A3), 1897
Box 1 Folder 7 The Catalog of the Cosmopolitan Print Department, New York, contains listings for JWS prints along with small black-and-white illustrations, undated
Box 1 Folder 8 Good Housekeeping, 1 full-page, black-and-white advertisement for Jessie Willcox Smith’s “New Series of Childhood Pictures,” Good Housekeeping Print Department, (p. 143-144 only), 1918 November
Box 1 Folder 9 The Best Books for Children, Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1 color illustration as part of an ad for At the Back of the North Wind (see A53), undated
Box 1 Folder 10 The Gateway to Bookland 1923-1924 (covers only), Philadelphia: George W Jacobs & Co., 1 color illustration, [1923]
Box 1 Folder 11 Unidentified publication, 1 color illustration reproduced from A Child’s Garden of Verses [appears to be a page from a publisher’s catalog or advertising supplement based on text on verso of illustration], undated

Series 10: Art and Personal Items, circa 1897-1904

Scope and Contents

Series 10 contains a book from Jessie Willcox Smith’s library. The numbers in parentheses following the title match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography.

Arrangement

Series 10 is arranged alphabetically by title or creator.

Volume [L1] Donatello by Alfred Gotthold Meyer, translated by P.G. Konody, Bielefeld: Velhagen und Klasing, [likely Smith’s copy, contains her signature on the front pastedown endpaper, signed by Edith Emerson, heavily underlined and annotated], 1904
Box 4 Rhymes of Real Children, pictorial handkerchiefs (2), circa 1903
Art 2023.41 Smith, Jessie Willcox. Richard III, oil on canvas [poor condition], circ 1897
Art 2023.40 Smith, Jessie Willcox and Elizabeth Shippen Green. Welcome Home document [for Violet Oakley], calligraphic manuscript, ink on vellum [manuscript torn in area where wax seal became detached], 1903

Series 11: Exhibition and Auction Catalogs, 1936-1976

Scope and Contents

Series 11 contains exhibit and auction catalogs with Jessie Willcox Smith related content. The volume numbers match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography. Volume numbers in square brackets [] were assigned by the archivist to follow Nudelman’s system.

Arrangement

Series 11 is arranged chronologically.

Volume [E1] Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Jessie Willcox Smith [E1], Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, exhibition catalog with an appreciation by Edith Emerson, lists 191 titles, 1936
Volume [E2] Valuable Paintings from the Collections of the Late Charlotte D. M. Cardeza and Jessie Willcox Smith, Philadelphia: Samuel T. Freeman and Co., auction catalog with listings of 72 paintings and 7 black-and-white reproductions of paintings [Nudelman p. 172], 1940
Volume [E3] The Golden Age of American Illustration 1880-1914, Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, 1 black-and-white reproduction of an illustration, 1972
Volume [E4] Women Artists in the Howard Pyle Tradition, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum, exhibition catalogue with short biography, 1975
Volume [E5] The Art of American Illustration, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum, exhibition catalogue with an essay that focuses on placing Howard Pyle and his followers and students in the larger context of American illustration, 1976
Volume [E6] The Studios at Cogslea, by Catherine Connell Stryker, Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, exhibition catalog with biographical information, 1976

Series 12: Reference, 1905-1990

Scope and Contents

Series 12 contains articles and other biographical refence sources on artist Jessie Willcox Smith. The volume numbers match entries in Edward D. Nudelman’s Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography. Volume numbers in square brackets [] were assigned by the archivist to follow Nudelman’s system.

Arrangement

Series 12 is arranged chronologically.

Box 1 Folder 12 “Art in Illustration” by Norma K Bright, Book News [R1], vol. 23, no. 275, article on work of Jessie Willcox Smith and her contemporaries, 1905 July
Volume [R4]   Jessie Willcox Smith-Childhood’s Great Illustrator: A Resume of Her Work (1863-1935), edited by Ruth S. Freeman, Watkins Glen, New York: Century House, 1977
Box 4 Folder 22 Last Will and Testament of Jessie Willcox Smith [R2], certified copy, 1982
Box 4 Folder 23 Last Will and Testament of Henrietta Cozens [R3], certified copy, 1982
Volume [R5]   “Things Nobody Ever Heard Of: Jessie Willcox Smith Draws the Water-Babies,” by Mary M. Ison [discusses illustrations for The Water-Babies], The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress vol. 39, no. 2, 1982 Spring
Volume [R6]   North West Book Arts, [article by Nudelman collection], vol. 2, no. 2, 1982 December/January
Volume [R7]   Jesse Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, by Edward D. Nudelman, Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., inscribed by author, 250 numbered copies in deluxe slipcase edition, 1989
Volume [R8]   Jesse Willcox Smith: American Illustrator, by Edward D. Nudelman, Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., inscribed by author, 1990
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