The Prints and Photographs collection at the Library of Congress preserves this artistic rendering of Typical Cows. It was published in 1904 for a purpose at once educational and ornamental.
The exotic beasts that follow are from a series first issued in the 1870s.
Below, a selection of 19th century American children – for whose nurseries the foregoing, colorful, inaccurate depictions of animal families would have been created.
