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Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS91

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains illustrations, books, and scrapbooks from Jessie Gillespie (Willing), an American illustrator, dating from 1860 to 1970. During her illustration career, she used her middle name, Gillespie, as her artist's surname. Because most of her early illustrations were silhouettes, this collection also contains many of the pictures she used as her models.

Dates

  • 1860-1970

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

21 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Collection contains illustrations, books, and scrapbooks from Jessie Gillespie (Willing), an American illustrator, dating from 1860 to 1970.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Collection was recieved in 1971 from an unknown donor.

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Kathryn Howell; Andrea Martinez
Date
1988; May 2023
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Library Details

Library Details

Part of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections Repository

https://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/mccormick-library/index.html
Contact:
Deering Library, Level 3
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208-2300 US
847-491-3635