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Almost 2000 images illustrating classic tales told to children, drawn from relevant subject headings in the Picture Collection Reference files: Book illustrations, Nursery rhymes, Fairies, Illustrations, Children, Boys, and Girls.
Dates / Origin
Date Created:
1800 - 1923
(Approximate)
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Topics
Picture books for children
Childrens books
Genres
Illustrations
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a0108230-c5b9-012f-ed50-58d385a7bc34
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Clothing & dress
66
Fairy Tales
26
Girls
22
Boys
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Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
38
Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
32
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pied Piper of Hamelin
20
Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935
12
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
7
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Children's book illustrations
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Germany
19
England
15
France
4
United States
4
Brittany
1
genre
Illustrations
116
division
Wallach Division: Picture Collection
116
type
still image
116
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A Apple Pie
B Bit It
D Dealt It
F Fought for It
K Knelt for It
M Mourned for It
Q Quartered it.
He would live in the kennel t…
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell with…
[The Pied Piper.]
[The Pied Piper of Hamelin.]
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
The little boys and girls ran…
The wonderful music with shou…
At last the people in a body …
A wondrous portal opened wide.
"And bit the babies in the cr…
[The wonderful music with sho…
All the little boys and girls.
And skipping.
That seemed like a bustling.
Pied piper of Hamelin.
Once more he stept into the s…
Little hands clapping and lit…
ith rosy cheeks and flaxen cu…
Tripping.
Ran merrily after.
The Mayor was dumb, and the C…
[The boy on his crutches.]
"I've a great deal to thank y…
Little Lord Fauntleroy
m
With lippes as cold as any st…
The babes in the wood
Der Struwwelpeter.
Struwwelpeter
Die Geschichte vom bösen Frie…
[Die Geschichte vom bösen Fri…
Die gar traurige Geschichte m…
Die geschichte von den schwar…
"A troop of strange children …
Procession of sinners lead by…
Thou little child.
He watched the moonlight on t…
In hopes that St. Nicholas so…
Down the mountain they shot l…
Heidi dressing.
Heidi being carried.
Heidi and her friend.
Boy with a lamb.
Milking the goat.