Elisha Brown Bird
Pioneered action baseball cartoons and bookplates
Elisha Brown Bird was an American illustrator known for posters and bookplate designs. A native of Dorchester, he attended M. I. T., and after graduation became one of the first to cartoon baseball players in action. For more than 15 years prior to his retirement in 1939, he was in the art department of the New York Times. Permanent exhibitions of his bookplates are on display in the Boston Public Library and in the libraries of Harvard and Yale.
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Master student
- Scott Leighton Master
Artworks by this artist
- Harold A Holmes
- The owl for sale here ca. 1890[-]1920
- The captured cunarder by William H. Rideing 1896
- The post express, holiday number ca. 1890[-]1920
- Daughters of the revolution ca. 1890[-]1920
- The century for March 1896
- Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.)
- Yale University Library
- Half after one, the ’97 Olio College hall 1897
- The Nickell for November 1896
- The red letter foreword 1890-1920
- Poster exhibit, Mechanics Fair, the 19th exhibition 1895
- The red letter ca. 1896
- Amherst College Library
- The Chap-Book. no. 11 1896
- A Cereal Serial Story
- Daniel B. Fearing 1918
- Hiram Royal Mallinson
- The Boston herald, semi-centennial number, 1846, 1896 1896
- The Inland Printer for June 1896 1896