Elisha Brown Bird
Artworks: 22
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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Artworks by this artist (22 total)
- The Inland Printer for June 1896 1896
- The century for March 1896
- The poster 1896
- The Boston herald, semi-centennial number, 1846, 1896 1896
- A Cereal Serial Story
- The echo, Chicago, October 1, 1895 1895
- The owl for sale here ca. 1890[-]1920
- The Chap-Book. no. 11 1896
- Hiram Royal Mallinson
- The red letter ca. 1896
- The Nickell for November 1896
- Harold A Holmes
- Half after one, the ’97 Olio College hall 1897
- The post express, holiday number ca. 1890[-]1920
- Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.)
- Daughters of the revolution ca. 1890[-]1920
- Poster exhibit, Mechanics Fair, the 19th exhibition 1895
- Amherst College Library
- Yale University Library
- The captured cunarder by William H. Rideing 1896