ML Archives and Special Collections

Andrew Gardenier, The Successful Stockman and Manual of Husbandry. Springfield, Mass.: The King Richardson Co., 1899. (SpColl: 636 G2187)

Here are some images from a manikin (OED, see definition c, although perhaps the preferable term would be ‘cowikin’ or ‘bovikin’) inserted into a nineteenth-century husbandry manual:

Note that the final illustration above (Digestive Apparatus) includes separate fold-out pieces to better illustrate the bovine digestive system.

Stop by the Theta Rho room outside Archives & Special Collections to see our latest exhibition: The Art of Illustrating the Book. You’ll see a selection of some of the interesting items from our collections that trace the development of illustration methods from the Middle Ages to the present. The exhibition also features a selection of local artist Dirk Lee’s wood engravings and some of the most visually-interesting zines from our extensive small press collection.

Items on display include the 1561 Stow edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, one of the portfolio photogravure images from Edward Curtis’ North American Indian, works by Arthur Rackham and Maurice Sendak, and much more.

The Art of Illustrating the Book will be on view through June. For more information contact Archives & Special Collections at 406.243.2053 or library.archives@umontana.edu.

Caricatures and Cartoons of Men in Montana was first published in 1907, and according to WorldCat there are only a handful of copies (about six) now known to exist. As the title implies, the book consists of caricatures of prominent Montanans (but only men). This sample—featuring Superintendent of the Deer Lodge Prison, Thomas McTeague—provides an example, but you can see more on display in exhibition case in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room.