Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon
Prints and Photographs
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540-4730
Collection digitized? Generally, no. Selected
images are included here to give a sample of the collection.
The Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon
contains 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art
of caricature, cartoon, and illustration. The collection spans
the years 1780 to 1977 and includes works by 521 American and foreign
artists and illustrators. Most of the images are cartoons, comic
strips, and periodical illustrations drawn by American artists
between 1890 and 1970.
The Swann Collection features a rich diversity of twentieth-century
American and European cartoon drawings and includes images that
reflect such aspects of society as political and economic conditions,
social mores, employment, domestic life, families and children,
relations between the sexes, and superheroes.
In the early 1960s, Erwin Swann, a New York advertising executive
started collecting original cartoon drawings of artistic and humorous
interest. The Swann Collection came to the Library of Congress
in two installments, in 1974 and in 1977, with a fund to maintain,
preserve, and develop the collection, and under an agreement whereby
a space would be provided for the permanent exhibition of works
from the collection and related library holdings. The Swann Gallery
of Caricature & Cartoon is located opposite the Coolidge Auditorium
in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building.
The Swann Foundation, which Erwin Swann created in 1968 to promote
preservation, exhibition, scholarship and publication of caricature
and cartoon, was transferred from New York to the Library of Congress
in 1995. The Foundation, now known as the Caroline
and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, offers
a fellowship to graduate students and those within three years
of receiving a graduate degree, working in any field, on a topic
related to caricature and cartoon. The Swann
Foundation Home Page provides information on the Foundation
and on the Library's activities relating to caricature and cartoon.
Apart from newly received acquisitions,
a catalog record for each image is available
in the Prints
and Photographs Division Online Catalog
(address: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html).
The online catalog is also available in
the Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
Some digital images display (generally
only small, "thumbnail" versions
will display outside the Library of Congress
because of rights considerations). An unpublished
checklist of items, including artists'
biographies and bibliographies, is available
in the P&P Reading Room.
Photographic prints or transparencies of items in the collection
may be ordered through the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service,
Washington, D.C., 20540-4570. Orders for copies must be accompanied
by reproduction numbers for the desired images or, if no reproduction
numbers exist, by call numbers for the images. Reproduction numbers
and call numbers appear in catalog records for the images. Order
forms, price, and order instructions will be provided on request.
All information documented by Prints and Photographs Division
staff regarding publication and/or copyright claimants has been
recorded in the catalog record. Use of published works created
after 1923 or unpublished works created within 70 years of the artist's death may be limited by copyright restrictions. Therefore,
patrons are advised to check for copyright prior to publication
or other forms of distribution.
When images are reproduced in a publication, the Library requests
that the reproduction number be published with the credit, as in
the following example: "Library of Congress, Swann Collection,
Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-111,111 [negative number]."
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
Selections, or in some cases, the
entire holdings in the following
categories are available through
the Prints & Photographs
Online Catalog (PPOC):
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American Cartoon Prints
(APP)
About 800 prints, circa 1766-1876.
Available through the PPOC; See
collections listing for Cartoon
Prints, American
[More
information about Cartoon Prints,
American]
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British Cartoons Collection (PC 1,2,3)
About 10,000 political and social satires and caricatures, 1650-1832.
Selection available through
PPOC. See collections listing
for
Cartoon
Prints, British [More
information about Cartoon Prints,
British] .
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Cabinet of American Illustration (CAI)
About 4,000 drawings and prints, 1850-1930. Books and magazine
illustrations and some graphic designs.
Available through PPOC. See
collections listing for: Cabinet
of American Illustration
[More
information about Cabinet
of American Illustration]
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Cartoon Drawings Collection (CD1)
About 6,800 drawings, 1840-1986. Political, editorial, and humorous
cartoons and caricatures by about 500 artists.
Available through PPOC. See
collections listing for: Cartoon
Drawings.
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French Political Cartoons (PC5)
About 375 cartoons, 1706-1871.
Selection available through PPOC.
Search call number: PC 5
(NOTE: The Library of Congress does not maintain these Internet
sites. Users should direct concerns about these links to their respective
site administrators or webmasters.)
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Anonima Fumetti's Project for a National Museum for Comic
Art in Lucca
Anonima Fumetti - Centro Nazionale del Fumetto
CP 3242 / Ufficio Postale Marsigli
Torino ITALY
tel: 39 (11) 433 14 65
http://www.fumetti.org/
(Museum has opened. The
virtual museum provides links
to a variety of web sites, including
some discussion groups relating
to comics.)
Email: anonima@fumetti.org
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Bedeteca de Lisboa
Palácio do Contrador-mor
R. Cidade do Lobito, Olivais Sul
1800 Lisboa
Portugal
tel: 351 (1) 218536676
http://www.bedeteca.com
Email: geral@bedeteca.com
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Belgian Centre for Comic Strip
Art/Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée
Rue des Sables, 20
1000 Bruxelles BELGIUM
tel: 32 (2) 219 19 80
http://www.comicscenter.net/
Email: visit@cbbd.be
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Bowling Green State University Popular Culture Library
Popular Culture Library
4th floor Jerome Library
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0600
tel: (419) 372-2450
fax: (419) 372-7996
http://www.bgsu.edu./colleges/library/pcl/pcl.html
Email: pcldesk@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
tel: (415) CAR-TOON/(415) 227-8666
http://www.cartoonart.org/
Email: office@cartoonart.org
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Cartoon Art Trust
11-13 The Brunswick Centre,
Bernard Street
London WC1N 1AF UNITED KINGDOM
tel: 44 (20) 7278 7172
FAX: 44 (20) 7272 4234(BR>
http://www.cartooncentre.com/index.html
Email: cartooncentre@freeuk.com
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Cartoon Research Library
Ohio State University
023L Wexner
27 West 17th Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1393
tel: (614) 292-0538
FAX: (614) 292-9101
http://cartoons.osu.edu/
Email: cartoons@osu.edu
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The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature
Templeman Library
University of Kent at Canterbury
Canterbury CT2 7NU UNITED KINGDOM
tel: 44 (1227) 823127
http://library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons/
Email: cartoon-centre@ukc.ac.uk
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Charles M. Schulz Museum
2301 Hardies Lane
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
tel: (707) 579-4452
fax: (707) 579-4436
http://charlesmschulzmuseum.org/home.html
Email: inquires@schulzmuseum.org
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Comic Art Collection
Special Collections Division
Michigan State University Libraries
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
tel: (517) 355-3770
http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/
http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/otherlib.htm (access
to other research centers, especially those with comic books)
Email: comics@msu.edu
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Comic-Museum
Munsterstr. 7
D-45657 Recklinghausen
tel: 49 (2361) 231 86
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George Arents Research Library
Department of Special Collections
600 Bird Library
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
tel: (315) 443-2697
FAX: (315) 443-2671
http://libwww.syr.edu/information/spcollections/index.html
Email: arents1@library.syr.edu
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Karikatur & Cartoon Museum
St. Alban-Vorstadt 28, Postfach
CH-4052 Basel SWITZERLAND
tel: 41 (61) 271 13 36
FAX: 41 (61) 274 03 36
http://www.cartoonmuseum.ch/MUSEUM/mus00_frame.html
Email: info@cartoonmuseum.ch
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La Maison D'Ailleurs/Museum of Science Fiction
Place Pestalozzi 14, CP
1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
Switzerland
tel: (41) 24 425 64 38
fax: (41) 24 425 65 75
http://www.ailleurs.ch/
Email: maison@ailleurs.ch
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Municipal Cartoon Art Museum
Bonsai-cho 150
Omiya-shi
Saitama-ken 330 JAPAN
tel: 81 (48) 6631541
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Musée et Salon International de la Bande Dessinée
121 Rue de Bordeaux
16000 Angoulême FRANCE
tel: 5 (45) 38 65 65
Email: cnbdi@cnbdi.fr
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Museum of Black Superheroes
http://www.blacksuperhero.com/
(Virtual museum of African American representation in comic
books.)
Email: ramo1234@blacksuperhero.com
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Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
32 Union Square East, Suite 600
New York, NY 10003
tel:(212) 254-3511
FAX: (212) 254-3590
http://www.museumofcomicandcartoonart.org
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National Archives of Canada
Canadian Museum of Caricature
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A ON3 CANADA
tel: 1 (866) 578-7777
fax: 1 (613) 995-6274
http://www.archives.ca/
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National Archives of Canada
Documentary Art and Photography Division
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A ON3 CANADA
http://www.archives.ca/
The National Cartoon Museum
New York, NY
http://www.cartoon.org
Email: Email:
inquiry@cartoon.org
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Het Nederlands Stripmuseum
Bloemsingel 8
9712 KZGroningen NETHERLANDS
tel: 31 (50) 311 20 46
FAX: 31 (50) 313 83 58
http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/museer/groeningen.htm
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The New Zealand Cartoon Archive
Alexander Turnbull Library
P.O. Box 12346
Wellington NEW ZEALAND
tel: 64 (4) 474 30 55
http://www.natlib.govt.nz
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New York City Comic Book Museum
P.O. Box 230676
New York, NY 10023
tel: (212) 712-9454
http://www.nyccomicbookmuseum.org
(organizes traveling exhibitions ~ working on securing permanent
exhibition space)
Email: nyccbm@hotmail.com
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Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
7-65 Mukogawa-Cho
Takarazuka City
Hyogo-Ken, 665-0844 JAPAN
tel: 81 (797) 81 29 70
http://www.tezuka.co.jp/
http://en.tezuka.co.jp/ (English)
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South Asian Research
Centre for Advertisement, Journalism & Cartoons
(SARCAJC)
40 Arjun Marg. DLF Phase
one
Gurgaon. Haryana-122002.INDIA
Visit by prior appointment.
http://www.sarcajc.com
Email: sarcajc@hotmail.com
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Tegneseriemuseet i Danmark (Comics Museum in Denmark)
Fjorddalsvej 3
DK 4400 Kalundborg DENMARK
tel. 45 (59) 55 32 20
http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/museer/andremus.htm
(Museum exists as a collection and an online entity.)
Email: tegnemus@post11.tele.dk
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Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Deutsches Museum fur Karikatur und
Kritische Grafik
Geogengarten, 3000
D-30167 Hannover GERMANY
tel: 49 (511) 16 99 99 - 11 (central)
fax: 49 (511) 16 99 99 - 99
http://www.wilhelm-busch-museum.de/
Email: information@wilhelm-busch-museum.de
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Words & Pictures Museum of
Fine Sequential Art
136 West Street
Northampton, MA 01060
tel: (413) 586-8545
fax: (413) 586-9855
http://www.wordsandpictures.org
(Virtual Words and Pictures Museum, the comic book art museum,
featuring online educational exhibits, research directories,
etc. Has links to other museums, galleries and libraries.)
Email: info@wordsandpictures.org
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)
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. 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: http://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. 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]
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, Brain. The Comics Since 1945. New York:
Abrams, 2002. Call number: PN6725.W25 2002
Prepared by: Maja Keech, Reference Specialist,
with assistance from Sara Duke, Assistant Curator, 9/27/99
- updated 2003
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