Sample Images from the Collection

The following images demonstrate the variety of subjects and formats included in the Cabinet of American Illustration, selected from the more than 4,000 original drawings and prints by American magazine, newspaper, book, and advertising illustrators. The selections also represent the predominate chronological range of the collection (ca. 1880-1930).

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, artist. Three hunters by a camp fire. Between 1840 and 1888. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Henry Louis Stephens, artist. Black man reading newspaper by candlelight. 1863. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Edwin Austin Abbey, artist. Interior of a cider mill at Rye. 1879. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Alice Barber Stephens, artist. Will you be my friend, indeed? 1901. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Charles Dana Gibson, artist. Picturesque America. Anywhere in the Mountains. 1900. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Edward Penfield, artist. Man and woman in sports clothes. 1913. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Jessie Gillespie, artist. Panta=loons. 1914. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

William Allen Rogers, artist. Indian mother and baby-wigwam. 1888. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Elizabeth Shippen Green, artist. Rising vigorously out of the earth was a little rose bush. 1908. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Frederic Dorr Steele, artist. Ezekiel. 1907. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

Jessie Willcox Smith, artist. He looked up at the broad yellow moon and thought that she looked at him. 1916. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Charles Livingston Bull, artist. Mockingbird. Between 1890 and 1932. Cabinet of Amercan Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Harry Fenn, artist. Thorn-trees near Niagara. 1887. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Wladyslaw T. Benda, artist. The Earth with the Milky Way and moon. 1918. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

William T. Smedley, artist. Long Island was a long yellow line on the left. 1898. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Mary Hallock Foote, artist. A Pretty Girl in the West. 1889. Cabinet of American Illustration. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Cabinet of American Illustration: Magazine and Book Illustration Drawings, 1880-1930 (Library of Congress)

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