Copies of illustrations created during Sir Joseph Banks' expedition to Iceland and three portraits of Banks. Places depicted include Hafnarfiord, the Gardahraun, Hvaleyri, Skálholt, the Geysir, a mountain near Hekla, and the rocks near Lauganes. There are also illustrations of Icelandic people. Originals were done around 1772-1774, and include both finished engravings and pencil sketches. Artists include J. Cleveley, Charles Ruotte, and James F. Miller.

Collection contains loose prints by John Gould.

Collection includes loose prints from Audubon books, The birds of America (double elephant folio of 1827-1838 and a subsequent octavo edition) and The viviparous quadrupeds of North America (1846-1854), as well as later reproductions of Audubon prints.

Artwork on deposit from the Lab of Ornithology. Includes works by George Miksch Sutton, Anna Botsford Comstock, Mark Catesby and others.

Prints depicting bridges, including arch bridges, suspension bridges, one wooden bridge, and one spiral-lever suspension bridge, mainly at places in England and the United States. Included are several prints of the Upper Ferry (Lancaster-Schuylkill) bridge over the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, and of the Fairmount Water Works there. Also shown are the Pont Neuf in Paris, the Eads bridge in St. Louis, and bridges at the Isola Tiberina in Rome.

Lithograph of the Cornell University campus by Richard Rummell. Lithograph of the Cornell University campus by Richard Rummell. Two black and white photogravures by Richard Rummell of the Cornell campus (one mounted, one matted, with some foxing). Three colored versions of the print (two framed, one unframed).

Print originally from Indian Traits Volume II, by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, 1844, page 35. This version is from Annals of the United States illustrated: the pioneers: no. 4. Print depicts Simon Kenton, aka Simon Butler, tied to a horse which is being scared by Shawnee Indians in the background. There is description of the print on the front in English and French.

4 mounted hand-colored lithographic transformational print transparencies printed by W. Spooner, London. Represented in the collection are Spooner’s Transformations, No. 3 – “The Transformed Sleepers”; Spooner’s Transformations, No. 4 – “Destruction of a Swiss Village by Avalanche”; Spooner’s Transformations, No. 10 – “Napoleon Powerful and Napoleon Powerless”; unnumbered – “Mount Hecla, with the eruption as represented at the Surrey Zoological Gardens.”

Approximately 5,500 promotional and commemorative items in a variety of formats, including cartoons, prints, and posters; lapel buttons, ribbons, medals, textiles, hats, and other costume items; ballots, broadsides, leaflets, and other ephemera; pamphlets and other formal publications; sheet music and songbooks; scrapbooks; and three-dimensional items relating to United States presidential campaigns, as well as a small amount of material on candidates for other offices.