Guide to the Richard Keith Culver Drawings, ca. 1888-1905

Processed by Sara Timby; machine-readable finding aid created by Patricia White

Department of Special Collections

Green Library

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, CA 94305-6004

Phone: (650) 725-1022

Email: speccollref@stanford.edu

URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/

Guide to the Richard Keith Culver Drawings, ca. 1888-1905

Collection number: M313

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Department of Special Collections
Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.edu
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/

Processed by:: Sara Timby
Date Completed:: December 1979
Encoded by:: Patricia White

Descriptive Summary

Title: Richard Keith Culver Drawings,

Date (inclusive): ca. 1888-1905

Collection number: Special Collections M313

Creator: Culver, Richard Keith, d. 1912

Extent: 5 linear ft.

Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions:

None.

Publication Rights:

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance:

Gift of William Wreden, 1979

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Richard Keith Culver Drawings, M313, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

BIOGRAPHY

Richard Keith Culver received his a.b. in bionomics in 1899 from Stanford University. He was a nationally syndicated cartoonist before becoming a citrus grower in 1931.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection consists of drawings by Culver used in comic strips, broadsides, satire cartoons, and calendars with some drawings by other artists, newsclippings about Culver, and several publications which contain Culver illustrations.

CONTAINER LIST

Folder 1

Twenty political satire cartoons mounted on heavy stock. R.K. Culver.

Folder 2

Forty-two broadsides "The Roosevelt Bears" by Paul Piper: 19 illustrated by V. Floyd Campbell, 23 illustrated by R. K. Culver.

Folder 3

Heading for "Boys' and Girls' Page," Sunday edition San Francisco Call. 10 pieces - some damaged by insects. R. K. Culver.

Physical Description: 15 x 23 inches (approx.)

Folder 4

Cartoon comment on affairs of the time, national and local (California). R. K. Culver.

Physical Description: 32 pieces, largest 20 x 26 inches, smallest 7 x 16 inches. 4 to 8 drawings on each sheet - over 120 individual drawings.

Folder 5

Comic strips: "Those McCheruby Twins," "Uncle Philo," R. K. Culver.

Physical Description: 15 pieces; 6-9 drawings on each sheet.

Folder 6

Comic strips

"Mr. Knottquite" -

Physical Description: 5 pieces

Boxing stories -

Physical Description: 5 pieces

Miscellaneous Culver drawings, unsigned:

Physical Description: 82 drawings in 65 sheets, largest 23 x 9 inches, smallest 3 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches.

Folder 7

Comic strips - mostly proofsheets with pasted-on typed captions. Western pioneer scenes, "darkie" minstrel strips, rooster, various farm animal cartoons, signed by R. K. Culver; mostly pen and ink, a few pen and ink with wash.

Physical Description: Largest - 12 x 28 inches and 22 x 25 inches; smallest 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 106 sheets

Folder 8

Calendar. 7 original drawings 23 x 27. "The months," plus another drawing possibly used or meant for the cover of the calendar. 5 sheets as copyrighted by Dodge Stationery Company in 1888,plus copies of 4 of the copyrighted sheets.

Physical Description: All sixteen pieces in rather poor condition - water stained and torn.

Folder 9

Drawings by artists mentioned in William Murrell's A History of American Grapic Humor.

Davenport, Horner. Pen and ink drawing. May be self portrait.

Physical Description: 18 x 33 inches

Dicks, Gus. Pen and ink drawing,

Physical Description: 10 x 13 1/2 inches.

Two Hermann, George, pen and ink drawings,

Physical Description: 5 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches and 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches.

Opper, Frederick Burr. Series of 4 pen and ink drawings on single sheet,

Physical Description: 13 x 19 inches.

Swinnerton, James. 8 drawings in 3 sheets, pen and ink (some water color added on 2 drawings.)

Zimmerman, Eugene ("ZIM"). 1 pen and ink drawing, inscribed to Culver,

Physical Description: 11 x 19 inches.

Folder 10

Sixty editorial cartoons, signed by Culver.

Physical Description: Largest 23 x 29 inches; smallest 11 x 12 1/2 inches.

Folder 11

Six signed drawings, editorials re William Jennings Bryan.

Physical Description: Largest 22 1/2 x 27 inches; smallest 12 14 x 15 1/4 inches.

Folder 12

Forty-two sheets of various drawings, sketches, proofs by different artists. All signed. Appear to be contemporary with Culver.

Physical Description: Largest 13 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches; smallest 4 x 6 3/4 inches.

Folder 13

Twenty-one sheets. Political cartoons of Harnson Bray Otis - the editorial manager of the Los Angeles Times. Seem to be final proofs to be sent to engraver. Signed by Culver.

Physical Description: Largest 20 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches; smallest 4 x 11 inches.

Folder 14

Ten pieces on Theodore Roosevelt. Signed by Culver. Proofsheets (broadsides?).

Physical Description: Largest 18 x 23 inches; smallest 14 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches.

Folder 15

Scrapbook - "Caricatures by R. K. Culver." Newspaper clips of caricatures by Culver as well as a couple of large broadsheets. Miscellaneous news clippings of Culver, as well as other artists' cartoons. One photo "Zim - Judge____" to Mr. R. K. Culver of California.

Folder 16

Eleven pieces - broadsheets and drawings, signed by Culver, California state and local politics.

Physical Description: Largest 19 x 23 inches; smallest 11 x 13 inches.

Folder 17

Five drawings signed by Culver

Stanford '99

Two monkeys singing in tree. "Culver '99 - with many apologies to Messrs. O. Khayyam and Fitzgerald."

Pencil sketch of Dr. Pardee

Wolves devouring a turkey, 1905

"We build" and "Progress"

Folder 18

Books containing Culver illustrations

The American Cartoonist Magazine. Holiday Number, 1903, p. 33 "Then and Now," by Arthur Brudick, illustrated by R. K. Culver.

Caricature. The Wit & Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song & Story Illustrated by America's Greatest Artists.

Judge.

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