Category Archives: Picture Collection
UFOs, Aliens, & Spaceships
The images below belong to the “UFOs, Aliens & Spaceships” folder.
As the name suggests, this folder contains illustrations, “photographic evidence” and other imagery related to various sightings and alleged first hand extraterrestrial encounters. While in some photographs UFOs are depicted as mere specs of light, in others they seem to appear in uncanny detail. There are also photographs of people who have started cults or societies to spread their belief in extraterrestrial existence and intergalactic cooperation. The elaborate fantasy art work you will find in the folder is indicative of our voracious fascination with worlds beyond our own.
This folder contains 21 illustrations and 29 photographs, with a total of 50 images.
Sightings Vol 2 Issue 5 (1997)
Sightings Vol 2 Issue 5 (1997)
Sightings Vol 2 Issue 5 (1997)
Photograph : Cedric Allingham
Sightings Vol 2 Issue 5 (1997) | Courtesy of Mike Hawkins
Weird U.S. (2008) | Dr. Beard of the Hollow Earth Society
Weird U.S. (2008)
Weird U.S. (2008) | Photography : Ryan Doan | Art : Riley Martin
Sightings Vol 2 Issue 5 (1999) | Art : Monarca Lynn Metrifield
Table Settings – Silverware & Utensils
The “Silverware & Utensils” folder is one of four subdivisions under the “Table Settings” category.
A particular highlight of this folder is the Limited Edition Portfolio from the Lauren Stanley Gallery which showcases their collection of American Soup Ladles from 1800-1900. It comes with a separate booklet that includes extensive information on the exhibited ladles, their history and manufacturers. Detailed descriptions are included on the back of each photograph as well.
This portfolio contains 38 images, with a total of 70 pictures in the entire folder.
“Dancing Ladles”
Wood & Hughes, ca. 1885
Whiting Manufacturing Company, ca. 1878
Tiffany & Co., 1872
Albert Coles, ca. 1868
Wood & Hughes, ca. 1870
George B. Sharp, Patent 1866
James Watts, ca. 1865
Maker Unknown, ca. 1865
William Gale & Son, ca. 1858
John R. Wendt, ca. 1860
Michael Gibney, 1846/ Christian Wiltberger, ca. 1800
People – With Animals
People – With Animals is one of the 27 subdivisions of People and contains 284 pictures.
National Geographic.
A three-toed sloth.
Japan.
June 1944.
August 1938.
Postcard from Blue Sky Gallery
August 1957.
National Geographic.
National Geographic.
Brazil.
Photo by Winfield Parks.
Illustration – Children’s Books
We recently received a donation of over 30 beautiful, though decrepit, children’s books from the early 20th century. The haul gave the existing Illustration – Children’s Books category a hefty influx of content and prompted us to divide the subject chronologically as follows:
Illustration – Children’s Books – Pre – 1920’s
Illustration – Children’s Books –Â 1920-1929
Illustration – Children’s Books –Â 1930-1939
Illustration – Children’s Books –Â 1940-1979
Illustration – Children’s Books –Â 1980-1989
Illustration – Children’s Books –Â 1990-Present
“The Tale of Betsy Butterfly”, 1918.
Written by Arthur Scott Bailey
Illustrated by Harry L Smith
“The Tale of Betsy Butterfly”, 1918.
Written by Arthur Scott Bailey
Illustrated by Harry L Smith
“The Tale of Betsy Butterfly”, 1918.
Written by Arthur Scott Bailey
Illustrated by Harry L Smith
“The Tale of Betsy Butterfly”, 1918.
Written by Arthur Scott Bailey
Illustrated by Harry L Smith
Harper’s, 1902.
Illustration by Elizabeth Smippen Green
Harper’s, 1902.
Illustration by Elizabeth Smippen Green
“Adventures in Animal Land”, 1926.
Illustrated by Clara Atwood Fitts
“Friends: A Primer”, 1936.
Illustrated by Marguerite Davis.
“Friends: A Primer”, 1936.
Illustrated by Marguerite Davis.
Sheet Music
Clefs and lattices of lines, notes and rests, presence and absence, signatures and articulations, the graphic art of musical notation serves as both rigid explanation and expressive abstraction. Below find samples illuminated and otherwise unadorned from our Picture Collection, ranging from the Italian Renaissance to 2006.
Medieval Sheet Music
Following is a selection of sheet music from the 1879 book The Baby’s Boutique, Illustrated by Walter Crane, an influential, prolific illustrator that you can learn more about in our book stacks:
Sheet Music from a 2006 Video Art piece by Cory Arcangel.
The Etude Magazine, April 1946.
The Etude Magazine, March 1946.
The Etude Magazine, March 1946.
The Etude Magazine, February 1933.
The Etude magazine, January 1933
SVA Library Picture & Periodicals Collections 