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Collection Cartoon Drawings: Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon

Related Resources

Related Resources in the Library of Congress

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington DC 20540-4683

  • Erwin Swann papers, 1949-1976 (bulk 1968-1973), 10,000 items.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20540-4730

  • American Cartoon Prints (APP)
    About 800 prints, circa 1766-1876.
    See collections listing for Cartoon Prints, American
    [More information about Cartoon Prints, American]
  • British Cartoons Collection (PC 1,2,3)
    About 10,000 political and social satires and caricatures, 1650-1832.
    [Change to: Brief Records, based on the British Museum Catalogs]
    [More information about Cartoon Prints, British]
  • Cabinet of American Illustration (CAI)
    About 4,000 drawings and prints, 1850-1930. Books and magazine illustrations and some graphic designs.
  • Cartoon Drawings Collection CD1)
    About 6,800 drawings, 1840-1986. Political, editorial, and humorous cartoons and caricatures by about 500 artists.
    [More information about Cartoon Drawings Collection]
  • French Political Cartoons (PC5)
    About 375 cartoons, 1706-1871.
  • Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
    About 36,000 cartoons, 1800-2000, bulk 1941 and after.
  • Herbert L. Block Collection
    About 64,000, including more than 14,000 original cartoon drawings for the Chicago Daily News, Newspaper Enterprise Association, and The Washington Post, 1929-2001, bulk 1937-2001. Includes more than 50,000 rough sketches.

Related Collections and Sources Outside the Library of Congress

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Online Resources for Caricature and Cartoon

(Note: If you are a cartoon repository or a content provider and wish to be included on this list, please send an e-mail to: swann@loc.gov)

Selected Bibliography

  • Masters of American comics / essay by John Carlin ; with contributions by Stanley Crouch ... [et al.] ; edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2005. NC1426.M34 2005 [P&P]
  • Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, c1976. Call number: E183.A57 1976 [P & P]
  • Goulart, Ron, ed. The Encyclopedia of American Comics. New York: Facts on File, 1990. Call number: PN6725.E64 1990 [P&P]
  • Harvey, Robert C. Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip. Seattle: Frye Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, 1998. Call number: PN6725.H38 1998 [P&P]
  • Katz, Harry L., ed. Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress. New York: Abrams, 2006. NC1427.W18C37 2006 [P & P]
  • Katz, Harry L. and Sara W. Duke. "Cartoon-related Research at the Library of Congress." Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, Vol. 1, no. 1, November 1994, pp30-36. Call number: NC1320.I55 [P & P] (Note: A version of this article is available online at: //www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/cartoon_research.html)
  • Katz, Harry L. and Sara W. Duke. Featuring the Funnies: One Hundred Years of the Comic Strip. Exhibition catalog, 24pp. [Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1998] Call number: PN6705.U5F43 1998 Fol. [P&P]
  • Katz, Harry L. and Sara W. Duke. "The Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress." Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, Vol. 1, no. 2, May 1994, pp31-33. Call number: NC1320.I55 [P & P]
  • Lent, John A. Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: an International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. Call number: Z5956.C3L45 1994 [P & P]
  • Lent, John A. Cartoonists, Works, and Characters in the United States through 2005: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Z5956.C3L456 2006 [P & P]
  • Lent, John A. Comic Art in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America through 2000: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Z5956.C3L458 2004
  • Lent, John A. Comic Art of Europe through 2000: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Z5956.C3L46 2003 [P & P]
  • Lent, John A. Comic Art of the United States through 2000, Animation and Cartoons: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2005. Z5956.C3L47 2005 [Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room]
  • Lent, John A. Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States: an International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. Call number: Z5956.C6L46 1994 [P & P]
  • Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Drawing the Iron Curtain: Cold War Cartoons, 1946-1960: a Caroline and Erwin Swann Memorial Exhibition, May 23-August 16, 1996. [Washington, DC]: The Library, [1996]. Call number: D844.L534 1996 [P & P]
  • Lordan, Edward J. Politics, Ink: How America's Cartoonists Skewer Politicians, from King George III to George Dubya. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. E183.L655 2006
  • O'Sullivan, Judith. The Art of the Comic Strip. [College Park]: University of Maryland. Department of Art, [1971]. Call number: NC1427.C6308 [P & P]
  • O'Sullivan, Judith. The Great American Comic Strip: One Hundred Years of Cartoon Art. Boston: Little, Brown, c1990. Call number: PN6725.O75 1990 [P & P]
  • Scott, Randall W. Comic Books and Strips: An Information Sourcebook. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1988. Call number: Z5956.C6S37 1988 [P & P]
  • Walker, Brian. The Comics Before 1945. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2004. PN6725.W23 2004
  • Walker, Brian. The Comics Since 1945. New York: Abrams, 2002. Call number: PN6725.W25 2002
  • Prepared by: Maja Keech, Reference Specialist, with assistance from Sara Duke, Curator, Popular and Applied Graphic Art, 9/27/99 - updated 2008