Content Description The collection consists of original artwork that was part of a traveling exhibition entitled "Draw me a Story: A Century of Children's Book Illustration", produced by the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco. The exhibition documents the work of forty-one artists who created works especially for children. Artists represented include Ralph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, W.W. Denslow, William Steig, Chris Van Allsburg, Edward Ardizzone, Lois Lenski, Tomie DePaola, Maurice Sendak, Rosemary Wells,...

Scope and content Collection includes Phinney's Calendar or western almanac (issues for 1836, 1860, and 1862); chapbooks containing stories for children (12 items, 1800s); broadsides concerning the New Berlin Academy (1845, 1846, and 1866); undated 19th-century valentines, most of them made by hand with manuscript text; two indentures, one for land in the town of Cincinnatus, Cortland County (1817), the other for land in the town of Pittsfield, Otsego County (1824); and pamphlet Leslie's Short and easy method...