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Cover Art
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Cartoonbank.com 
 This is a division of The New Yorker magazine company, "with more than 85,000 records in our central archive-including all the cartoons ever published in The New Yorker . More than 20,000 of those images are available right here on our web site." These cartoons can be searched by keyword, caption, publication date, artist, and other fields. http://www.cartoonbank.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Media, Media Last updated May 28, 2003 Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era
Includes historical discussions and high-quality images of book covers. Browsable by major topics, such as Revolution and Industry , Women , and Agit-prop . From McGill University Libraries, Montreal, Canada. Some portions also in French. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/russian/ Topics: Children's Literature, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated Nov 26, 2002 Crimeboss: Crime Comic Books of the 1940s & 1950s
This site explores the popular crime comics of the 1940s and 1950s, known for their violent content. See History for information on titles and publishers, the 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, and the eventual end of crime and horror comics after the adoption of the comics code. Also features a gallery of comic covers (browsable by title) and links. http://www.crimeboss.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Literature: Fiction, Mysteries and More, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jun 25, 2003 Images of American Radicalism: Cover Illustrations from The Masses, 1913-1917
An exhibit of cover art (1913 through 1917) from the socialist magazine The Masses. Browsable by year. From Michigan State University Libraries. http://www.lib.msu.edu/services/spec_coll/radicalism/exhibits/masses/ Topics: Art by Region, Arts and Humanities, Political Parties & Theories Last updated Oct 5, 2009 Jack London Collection
A gallery of "first editions of Jack London's books, each of which he inscribed to his wife, Charmian ... includ[ing] a personal photograph glued inside the cover." Features images of covers, title pages, London's inscriptions, and photographs ("pictures range from vacation snapshots to family portraits to pin-up photos of London"). Browsable by title and year of publication. From the Department of Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University. http://library.usu.edu/Specol/digitalexhibits/jacklondon/index.htm Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 27, 2007 Judging A Book By Its Cover: Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
An exhibit of English and American 19th century book covers with gold-stamping, a process that "brought to the mass-produced book some of the prestige associated with gold-tooled leather bindings of the pre-industrial era." Browsable by topic (vignettes, traditional designs, classical motifs, coats of arms, Wild West, travel books, designer bindings). Also features a gallery of selected book spines. From New York's Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/gilded/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Libraries & Archives by Type, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jul 5, 2004 July 1942: United We Stand
Explores the "patriotic conspiracy" of July 1942, when nearly five hundred "magazines nationwide featured the American flag on their covers." Includes background information on the campaign and the slogan "united we stand"; searchable and browsable images of covers; a timeline; related information on the Treasury Department, war bonds, and war savings stamps; an annotated gallery of other objects that featured the flag; and suggested reading. From the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/1942/ Topics: Art, Arts and Humanities, Federal (U.S.) Government, Government, Government, Media, Media, September 11 & Beyond, World War II Last updated Jul 15, 2004 Life Magazine
Covers and "classic pictures" from Life Magazine for the years 1936-1972, when it was a weekly publication. Covers are searchable; pictures may be browsed by edition, subject, or photographer. The covers section also includes "past LIFE covers for this day." http://www.life.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Apr 6, 2009 Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
This site provides a database of images of thousands of bookbindings. Browse by subject (including items such as color of binding or stamping), or search by keyword to see front and back covers, a spine image, endpapers, and a physical description of each book. Also includes brief biographies of selected designers. The project is a partnership of the University of Alabama University Libraries and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. http://bindings.lib.ua.edu Topics: Arts and Humanities, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Apr 12, 2005 Voices From the Underground: Radical Protest and Underground Press in the "Sixties": An Exhibition
This online exhibit "displays select samples of alternative publications in the Alternative Press Collection" of the University of Connecticut Libraries. It includes an overview of underground newspapers from the 1960s and a gallery of covers of publications such as the Berkeley Barb and the East Village Other. From reference librarian Ellen Embardo. http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/exhibits/voices/ Topics: News, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jan 19, 2009 WVU Libraries: Isaac Asimov Collection
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov is respected "for popularizing or, as he called it, 'translating' science for the lay reader." This online display "features visuals and descriptions of some of the over 600 books, games, audio recordings, videos, and wall charts included in the West Virginia University Libraries Asimov Collection." Also find the Laws of Robotics (first promulgated in the 1950 book, "I, Robot"). Includes related links. http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/exhibits/asimov/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Literature: Fiction, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Science, Science Last updated Mar 15, 2004 |
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