Black-and-white illustrations carefully colored in crayon.
Throughout Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention, Faithfully Recorded Herein by L. Frank Baum, ills. by John R. Neill (1907). Original from the International Children’s Digital Library. Digitized January 14, 2009.
Child-painted illustrations. Discovered by Christina Paik of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
Throughout Umbrellas and Their History (1864). Original from Harvard University. Digitized October 3, 2007.
Child-colored illustrations. Discovered by Emily Cottrell of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
Throughout The Land of Oz: A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum, ills. John Rea Neill (1904). Original from the University of Virginia. Digitized July 28, 2008.
Child-painted plate.
From Divine and Moral Songs for Children by Isaac Watts (1866). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 17, 2006.
Child-colored plates.
Throughout Child’s Magazine, v. 2 (1816). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 15, 2007.
Reader-painted plate.
From p. of Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, ills. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1875). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 8, 2006.
Child-colored plates.
From various pages of Amy, the Glass-Blower’s Daughter: A True Narrative, ed. the American Sunday School Union (1847).
Plates painted by child reader (and a painted chicken).
From various pages of The Beautiful Book for Little Children (1875). [Here]
Note: As a scholar and enthusiast of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, this is an especially exciting find. The rare books cataloging phrase used to describe texts like these is “Baldwin Library copy illustrations are hand-colored: probably by young owner.” More “young owner” books digitized at the UFDC. —kcw
