2.2. Illustrative Material, 1892-1983.

Extent:

25,000 items

Scope and content:

Illustrative material used or considered for use in books published by Dent or by Phoenix House, one of Dent's subsidiaries.

The illustrative material in Subseries 2.2 has been divided into three subseries: "Loose Illustrative Material,""Scrapbooks," and "Herbert Norris Material." The loose illustrative material in Subseries 2.2.1, which comprises roughly 45% of this subseries, contains loose photographs, drawings, and prints. The scrapbooks in Subseries 2.2.2, another 45% of the subseries, contain prints that have been organized in scrapbooks. Finally, the Herbert Norris material in Subseries 2.2.3 contains illustrative material from Norris's series of books on costume and fashion. The Norris material differs from the materials in Subseries 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 in that it contains both loose illustrations and scrapbooks and in that the Norris scrapbooks contain research notes, descriptions of illustrations, and random jotting in the margins.

Researchers should note that there is considerable redundancy between the loose illustrative material and the scrapbooks; most of the material dates from the 1920s through the 1960s.

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