J. Walter Wilkinson Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Wilkinson, Walter Gandy, 1917-
label: Interviewer
content: Bird, William L.
label: Author
content: Wilkinson, J. Walter (commercial artist)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Commercial artists
label: Topic
content: War posters
label: Topic
content: advertising
label: Topic
content: Soap
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by J. Walter Wilkinson, September 13, 1984
creator: label: Creator
content: Wilkinson, Walter Gandy, 1917-
label: Interviewer
content: Bird, William L.
label: Author
content: Wilkinson, J. Walter (commercial artist)
setName: label: See more items in
content: J. Walter Wilkinson Papers
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: J. Walter Wilkinson (1892- ) is an award winning commercial artist, perhaps best known for a series of six war bond posters he and his son Walter G. Wilkinson (1917-1971) created for the United States Treasury Department. J. Walter Wilkinson was born on Maryland's eastern shore, received formal academic training in art, and worked on newspapers and at an advertising agency before becoming a free lance artist. In addition to his war posters and other government commissions, he created a number of outdoor and magazine advertisements and many magazine covers. Major products for which Wilkinson did advertising art work included Ivory soap, Pabst beer, and Ballantine ale.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (2 boxes, 2 map-folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1932-1935, 1940-1964, 1985-1987.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0116
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Audiocassettes
label: Type
content: Sketches
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Robert Harding, 1986
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiocassettes
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketches
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Originals and copy photographs of advertisements and other commercial art work, original sketches, materials documenting a mechanical drafting instrument patented by the Wilkinson and his son, Walter G. Wilkinson, and a scrapbook of clippings, photographs, awards, and other materials documenting the Wilkinsons' careers. Also included are audiocassettes containing interviews of Wilkinson, conducted by National Museum of American History curator, Larry Bird.