Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Golden Covers

Tibor Gergely (illustrator)
Tootle
1945
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC


Tibor Gergely (illustrator)
The Taxi That Hurried
1946
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Tibor Gergely (illustrator)
A Year In The City
1948
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lenora Fees Combes (illustrator)
Let's Go Shopping
1948
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Eloise Wilkin (illustrator)
Come Play House
1948
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Cornelius De Witt (illustrator)
Johnny's Machines
1949
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Corinne Malvern (illustrator)
Susie's New Stove
1949
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Feodor Rojankovsky (illustrator)
Gaston and Josephine
1949
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Scarry (illustrator)
Two Little Miners
1949
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Corinne Malvern (illustrator)
Doctor Dan
1950
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Richard Scarry (illustrator)
Here Comes The Parade
1951
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Corinne Malvern (illustrator)
Nurse Nancy
1952
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Corinne Malvern (illustrator)
Five Pennies To Spend
1955
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Violet LaMont (illustrator)
Let's Save Money
1958
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Eloise Wilkin (illustrator)
We Help Daddy
1962
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Joan Esley (illustrator)
New Brother, New Sister
1966
printed book
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

from Tristia

[from exile, to his wife at Rome]

Dearest! if you those fair Eyes (wondering) stick
On this strange Character, know, I am sick.
Sick in the skirts of the lost world, where I
Breath hopeless of all Comforts, but to dye.
What heart (think'st thou?) have I in this sad seat
Tormented 'twixt the Sauromate and Gete?
Nor aire nor water please; their very skie
Looks strange and unaccustom'd to my Eye,
I scarce dare breath it, and I know not how
The earth that bears me shewes unpleasant now.
Nor Diet here's, nor lodging for my Ease,
Nor any one that studies a disease;
No friend to comfort me, none to defray
With smooth discourse the Charges of the day.
All tir'd alone I lye, and (thus) what e're
Is absent, and at Rome I fancy here.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Henry Vaughan (1651)