Printed Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sittig, Mary Margaret
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content: Mary Margaret Sittig research material on Louis Prang
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1-8; 2.5 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1866-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sittmary, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Printed material includes clippings, commercial lithographs of book illustrations, chromolithographs of ceramics from the Walters Collection and of work by others, The Card Autograph Album by L. Prang and Co., color lithographs of miniature pictures of mammals, birds, fish, insects, and miscellaneous subjects, calendars, miscellaneous greeting cards including salesmen's sample books of cards, programs, labels, and advertising cards. There are chromolithographed and block-printed fabric items including fabric squares, a fabric-covered box, shawls, and fabric-covered portfolio covers displaying images primarily of flowers and young girls. The books published by L. Prang and Co. include Prang's Standard Alphabets, American Text-Books of Art Education, The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Illustrations of the History of Art, and Yawcob's Dribulatons that is autographed by Charles Follen Adams (a.k.a. Yawcob Strauss). Books published by others are primarily German children's books with fine illustrations. There is also a large portfolio of machine-cut stencil designs.