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Libraries and Archives

• Archives of American Art
  Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.
  
  
• Browne Popular Culture Library
  The BPCL, founded in 1969 and dedicated to the acquisition and preservation of research materials on American popular culture (post 1876), is the most comprehensive repository of its kind in the United States.
  
  
• Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum
  The Cartoon Library & Museum is the largest and most comprehensive academic research facility documenting printed cartoon art. Administratively it is part of Ohio State University Libraries.
  
  
• ASIFA Illustration Archive
  The Animation Archive is a museum, library and digital archive for the benefit of animation professionals, cartoonists, designers, students and the general public.
  
  

Museums and Galleries

• Norman Rockwell Museum
  Norman Rockwell Museum, located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, holds the world's largest and most significant collection of works by Norman Rockwell, including more than 700 paintings, drawings, and studies and an archive of more than 150,000 photograph
  
  
• Charles M. Schulz Museum
  Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center preserves, displays, and interprets the art of Charles M. Schulz through exhibits and programming.
  
  
• National Museum of American Illustration
  The Collection has been assembled over a thirty-year period and is comprised of the American illustration art works including the largest collection of originals by Maxfield Parrish and the largest private collection of Norman Rockwell.
  
  
• American Illustrators Gallery
  American Illustrators Gallery is the premier exhibitor, buyer and seller of American Illustration art.
  
  
• Illustration House
  For over thirty years, Illustration House has been America's foremost gallery devoted to the art and history of illustration.
  
  

Blogs

• Graphic Tales
  A blog on illustration by Washington University's very own DB Dowd, illustrator and educator.
  
  
• Today's Inspiration
  A place for those with an interest in illustration from the 40's and 50's to share their knowledge, views and opinions.
  
  
• Illustration Art blog
  Celebrating artists who illustrated stories, advertisements and comics in the 20th centur
  
  

Image Collections

• Magazine Art.org
  Scanned magazine covers from the period of 1850-1950.
  
  
• Mid-Century in Print
  A Flickr image pool featuring illustration, graphic layout styles, and typography from 1945-1965.
  
  
• Pulp Artists
  A site featuring biographies and images of pulp magazine illustrators from 1930 to 1960, when technical advances in color printing led to a golden era of pulp art.
  
  
• Real Retro Source
  Includes reproductions of illustrations dating back to 1921 from the P&H Creative Group archive.
  
  
• BookScans
  A visual catalog of vintage American paperbacks from roughly the first 20 years of paperback-sized books; especially those printed before 1960 and/or having a 25 or 35-cent cover price.
  
  

Professional Organizations

• Society of Illustrators
  Their mission is to promote the art and appreciation of illustration, as well as its history and evolving nature, and to encourage high ideals through exhibitions, lectures, education, and by fostering a sense of community and open discussion.