Children's Literature Research Collection
113 Elmer L. Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Children's Literature
Research Collection
113 Elmer L. Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Summary Information
Collection Number: CLRC0192
Collection Size: .4 linear ft. (Manuscript and miscellaneous materials), .3 cubic ft. (Illustrative and miscellaneous art materials)
Abstract/Notes: Ilse-Margret Vogel's papers focus on her work as an author and illustrator of children's books. The collection contains production material for eleven titles published between 1964 and 1984. Production materials include both manuscript and illustrative materials. Manuscript materials include typescripts, proofs, front matter, a dummy, and notes. Illustrative materials include illustrations, sketches, and studies done in a variety of media, pieces of text proof, and an ink calligraphy. The collection also contains miscellaneous materials including some art done for Humpty-Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children and other sketches, and some general material including a photograph, reviews including one in German, and some correspondence dating up to 1987.
Ilse-Margret Vogel gave this collection to the University of Minnesota in 1970 and placed additional materials in the collection in 1987.
Collection is non-circulating, in-house use only.
This collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all the necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials.
This collection was processed with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical/Historical Notes
Ilse-Margret Vogel was born June 5, 1914 in Sybillenort, Germany [now Poland]. She was educated in Germany and studied art in Berlin prior to World War II; she later studied art in Basel, Switzerland after the war. In the 1940s, Ilse-Margret Vogel co-founded and co-owned the Rosen Art Gallery, the first modern art gallery in Berlin. She came to the United States in 1950 and in 1954 began writing for Humpty-Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children. Ilse-Margret Vogel wrote and illustrated her first book for children The Don't Be Scared Book: Scares, Remedies and Pictures, a picture book about fears, in 1964. During her long career, Ilse-Margret Vogel has illustrated many picture books including several for Golden Books. She has also written and illustrated several books for older readers such as The Rainbow Dress, and Other Tollush Tales (1975) and Dodo Every Day (1977) that draw on her experiences with her grandmother and the stories she heard from her as a child. In 1984, Ilse-Margret Vogel published Tikhon, a story about a young German girl and the Russian soldier she and her family befriend in post-World War I Germany. In 1992, she published Bad Times, Good Friends: A Personal Memoir that told of her life in Berlin during World War II
Biographical Source:
Scope and Content Notes
The collection contains production material for eleven titles published between 1964 and 1984. Production materials include both manuscript and illustrative materials. Manuscript materials include typescripts, proofs, front matter, a dummy, and notes. Illustrative materials include illustrations, sketches, and studies done in a variety of media, pieces of text proof, and an ink calligraphy. The collection also contains miscellaneous materials including some art done for Humpty-Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children and other sketches, and some general miscellaneous material including a photograph, reviews including one in German, and some correspondence dating up to 1987. The materials are arranged by title with folder and box level control.
See attached inventory for contents.
Collection Inventory
Animal Daddies and My Daddy, 1968
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1 pencil sketch
(M.C. 502)
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5 colored pencil and ink sketches
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink and colored pencil study for cover
(M.C. 502)
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2 ink, colored pencil and watercolor illustrations
(M.C. 502)
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4 ink, colored pencil and pencil sketches
(M.C. 502)
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8 ink and pencil sketches
(M.C. 502)
City Cats, Country Cats, 1969
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1 watercolor and ink sketch for jacket
(M.C. 502)
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2 watercolor and ink sketches
(M.C. 502)
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4 ink and felt pen marker sketches (some with holograph)
(M.C. 502)
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2 ink, felt marker and pencil sketches
(M.C. 502)
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15 ink and pencil sketches (some with holograph)
(M.C. 502)
Come On! Play Ball!, 1969
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1 felt marker and ink illustration
(M.C. 502)
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1 felt marker and pencil sketch
(M.C. 502)
Dodo Every Day, 1977
-Galley proof, corrected,
16 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Front matter,
4 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Notes,
1 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
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6 ink and pencil sketches
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink and watercolor illustration for jacket
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink calligraphy
(M.C. 502)
The Don't Be Scared Book: Scares, Remedies, and Pictures, 1964
-Typescript, carbon,
3 p.
(M.F. 813, folder 1)
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1 ink and pencil study for jacket
(M.C. 502)
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1 pencil study for jacket
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink and watercolor study
(M.C. 502)
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16 ink studies
(M.C. 502)
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3 pencil studies
(M.C. 502)
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1 pencil illustration
(M.C. 502)
Hello, Henry, 1965
-Typescript, corrected carbon,
5 p. ("final version")
(M.F. 813, folder 1)
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7 crayon and ink studies
(M.C. 502)
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1 crayon study
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink study
(M.C. 502)
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1 pencil study
(M.C. 502)
Humpty-Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children (periodical date unknown)
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1 ink and pencil sketch
(M.C. 369)
-Note: for "Find the golden apples" - not dated
Miscellaneous Art
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1 pencil and ink sketch
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink and colored pencil sketch
(M.C. 502)
Miscellaneous Materials
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1 color photograph of Ilse-Margret Vogel and her husband Howard Knotts (not dated)
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Notes,
3 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Reviews,
4 p. (1 attached to correspondence from 1984)
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Correspondence,
2 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
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1 review in German, 1 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Miscellaneous: loan agreement from 1980,
2 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
My Little Dinosaur, 1971
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3 ink sketches
(M.C. 502)
1, 2, 3, Juggle With Me: A Counting Book, 1970
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5 pencil and ink sketches
(M.C. 502)
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1 pencil sketch
(M.C. 502)
The Rainbow Dress, and Other Tollush Tales, 1975
-Typescript, corrected,
18 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Galley proof,
8 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Notes,
1 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Correspondence (holograph),
1 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
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1 ink sketch
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink and pencil sketch for jacket
(M.C. 502)
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1 piece of text proof for chapter titles
(M.C. 502)
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2 ink and pencil sketches
(M.C. 502)
Tikhon, 1984
-Notes,
2 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Typescript, corrected photocopy,
2 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Dummy, corrected,
20 (incomplete)
(M.F. 1312, folder 1)
-Page proof, corrected photocopy,
64 p.
(M.F. 1312, folder 2)
-Correspondence,
1 p.
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink sketch
(M.C. 502)
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17 ink and pencil sketches
(M.C. 502)
When I Grow Up, 1968
-Typescript, carbon,
4 p.
(M.F. 813, folder 1)
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1 crayon and ink study for cover
(M.C. 502)
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1 ink study
(M.C. 502)
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4 pencil and ink illustrations
(M.C. 502)
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