WashU Libraries Digital Collections

The Walt Reed Illustration Archive preserves the research library of its creator, author of The Illustrator in America and monographs on several leading 20th century illustrators. As founder of the Illustration House in New York, Walt Reed built a significant corpus of reference material. One facet of the collection includes over 200,000 magazine tear sheets depicting works by American illustrators from the late 19th century well into the mid 20th century.

This digital collection of the series contains the complete interviews conducted by Blackside for Eyes on the Prize II, including sections that appeared in the final program and the outtakes.

Elizabeth Ellen "Ella" Hough lived in Carrollton, Illinois, which is about 1.5 hours from St. Louis, Missouri. Ella attended art school at Washington University from 1888-1890. The Elizabeth Ellen Hough Papers consists of three sketchbooks from her studies at Washington University, circa 1888-1890. Also included are two cabinet card photographs of Hough, lithography pen nibs used by Hough, and a family history book written by Phyllis Wheeler.

The Duff’s Restaurant Literary Events Collection consists of flyers, schedules, clippings, photographs, and correspondence tracing the history of the Duff’s Poetry Reading Series from 1974-2013. These materials were kept in binders by proprietor and donor, Karen Duffy.