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Back in 1975, animator Chuck Jones presented Tom Shales of the Washington Post with the ultimate compliment to a journalist. The original...

Miguel Covarrubias created the illustrated map Economy of the Pacific for the World's Fair Golden Gate International Exposition held i...

Thomas Nast's spread over two pages in Harper's Weekly  late in 1863 presents us with images of Christmas during the Civil War. Her...

Original art by William Steig celebrates that special relationship between mother and child. A woman is shown sleeping in bed with her baby...

Argosy Book Store has listed a souvenir drawing by Otto Soglow  of his beloved character the Little King. It is dedicated to A. Atlas Leve, ...

On June 8, 1960, celebrated writer  J. D. Salinger wrote to theater and film critic  Edith Oliver at her office at  The New Yorker  on Wes...