William Donahey Papers, 1914-1969

Container Title
Series: Visual Materials
“The Teenie Weenies” cartoon series
PH 3575 (5)
Pen and pen and watercolor illustrations, 1914-1970
Physical Description: 256 drawings (3 flat boxes) 
PH 3576 (5)
Box   2
Proofs, 1914-1917
Box   2
Duplicate tear sheets, 1914-1970
Box   2
Tear sheets, 1914-1917
Box   1
Tear sheets, 1918-1923
Box   1
1923
Box   1
Proofs, 1918-1923
Oversize Folder  
Tear sheets and 1 drawing, 1914, 1916, circa 1923-1934
PH 3576 (3)
Box   3
1933-1934, 1941-1942
Box   4
1943-1950
Box   5
1951-1960
Box   6
1961-1970
PH 3577 (5)
Pen and ink drawings, watercolor drawings, and tear sheets for the books Teenie Weenie Town, Teenie Weenie Days, and Teenie Weenie Neighbors, 1942-1945
Physical Description: 83 drawings and 56 pieces of ephemera (1 flat box) 
PH 3578 (5)
Pen and ink drawings, watercolor drawings, pencil sketches, and advertising material
Physical Description: 33 drawings and 19 pieces of ephemera (1 flat box) 
Note: Includes the books The Teenie Weenies Music Book for Piano (1921) and The Teenie Weenies Their Book (1927).
PH 3579 (3)
Newspaper tear sheets of the cartoon series “The Pixeys,” 1925
Physical Description: 24 pieces of ephemera (1 folder) 
PH 3580 (5)
Drawings, newspaper tearsheets, posters, and proof sheets of illustrations for children's stories published in the Chicago Tribune and Cleveland Plain Dealer, circa 1910-1916
Physical Description: 28 drawings and 94 pieces of ephemera (3 flat boxes) 
Note: Included are illustrations for “Mother Goose Tales,” “Jack Sprat,” “Old King Cole,” “Silly Loon,” “Sweet Meats,” “Gatehouse Stories,” “Polly's Prince,” and “Tales from the Arabian Knights.”
PH 3581 (5)
Pen and ink drawings, watercolor drawings, sketches, and tear sheets for various projects by Donahey, 1914-circa 1970
Physical Description: 60 drawings and 2 pieces of ephemera (1 flat box) 
Note: Includes cartoon characterizations, fairy tales, portraits, fruit, etc.
PH 3582 (3)
Newspaper and magazine clippings, page proofs and reproductions of illustrations and stories by Donahey
Physical Description: 1 folder 
Note: Includes “Mr. Nickledick” (Chicago Tribune), “Ruff Stuff” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and stories in Red Book Magazine, Green Book Magazine, and What to Do.
PH 3583
Pen and ink drawings and watercolor illustrations for “Mr. Nickledick”
Physical Description: 175 drawings 
Note: Includes title blocks and cartoon panels. Some of the panels are in full color.
Box   1
1925 September-December
Box   1
1926 January-February
Box   1
1926 March-April
Box   1
1926 May-August
Box   1
1948
PH 3584
Political and humorous cartoons by Donahey published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Physical Description: 65 pieces of ephemera 
Note: Includes commentary on Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, the weather, Mexican Revolution, automobile hazards, Republican Convention of 1912, and Donahey's impressions on a trip West.
Box   1
Folder   1
Page proofs, newspaper clippings
Box   1
Folder   2
Photocopies of drawings
Arrangement of the Materials: Chronological