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Series I: Photograph and Caricature of Irving Tripp
Series II: Little Lulu
Series III: Other Sketches and Comics

Irving Tripp papers, 1950s-1970s

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Series I: Photograph and Caricature of Irving Tripp


Flat Box 1 Folder 1 Photograph of Irving Tripp seated at table, circa late 1930s, early 1940s?

Flat Box 1 Folder 9 Caricature of Irving Tripp working at desk

Series II: Little Lulu

Little Lulu #266 (published by Western)


Flat Box 2 Folder 1 Issue, © 1982, 1960

Original art:

Flat Box 2 Folder 1 "Dad for a Day"

Flat Box 2 Folder 1 "Lemonade Standoff"

Flat Box 2 Folder 1 Witch Hazel "Shop, Look and Listen"

Flat Box 2 Folder 1 "Loose in the Library"

Little Lulu #267 (published by Western)

Flat Box 2 Folder 2 Issue, © 1982, 1960, 1959

Original Art:

Flat Box 2 Folder 2 "Tubby Ate Here"

Flat Box 2 Folder 2 "Ladies Day"

Flat Box 2 Folder 2 "Copy Cat"

Flat Box 2 Folder 2 Witch Hazel "Foofnik Fever"

Flat Box 2 Folder 2 "Up a Tree"

Little Lulu #234 (published by Gold Key)

Flat Box 2 Folder 3 Issue, August 1976

Original Art:

Flat Box 2 Folder 3 "Doll Boy"

Flat Box 2 Folder 3 "Tubby's Magic Violin"

Flat Box 2 Folder 3 "Little Lulu at Sea"

Little Lulu #197 (published by Gold Key)


Flat Box 1 Folder 2 Issue, September 1970

John Stanley thumbnail "scripts" for four stories, all in Little Lulu #197 (1970):

Flat Box 1 Folder 2 "Diver's Reasons"

Flat Box 1 Folder 2 "Bagging the Wild Tubby"

Flat Box 1 Folder 2 "Catcalls"

Flat Box 1 Folder 2 "Log Jam"

Three typed Virginia Hubbell scripts with corrections:

Flat Box 1 Folder 2 Untitled Witch Hazel story in Little Lulu #191, March 1969

Flat Box 1 Folder 2 "A Close Call" story with Witch Hazel in Little Lulu #196, June 1970

Flat Box 1 Folder 2 Untitled Witch Hazel story in Little Lulu #197, September 1970


Flat Box 2 Folder 4 Weekly proofs of daily Little Lulu newspaper strips, 1961


Flat Box 1 Folder 3 Black and white cover proofs, and the final issue, of Dell's Little Lulu, Vol. 1, #80, 1955

Flat Box 1 Folder 4 Loose sketches, mostly Little Lulu, some loosely penciled and some tightly.


Flat Box 2 Folder 5 Strathmore sketchpad, with a loose sketch of a Little Lulu Christmas card and some penciled roughs of sketches finished in the Joseph Torch sketchbook

Series III: Other Sketches and Comics


Flat Box 1 Folder 5 Three issues of the Stanley Steamer fanzine, with a 1985 letter from its editor

Flat Box 1 Folder 6 Clipped newspaper comics, and one character design for the Nancy and Sluggo comics (with typed description)


Flat Box 2 Folder 6 Original sketches on tracing paper (some of entire pages) made for Golden Magazine, November 1969-July 1970


Flat Box 1 Folder 7 Illustration board with pencils—some inked—of character studies (various characters)

Flat Box 1 Folder 8 Sketches and inked drawings for the Lake Region Choraliers and partially inked boards for campaign against speeding.

Note taped to envelope addressed to Bud (Tripp's nickname)

Flat Box 1 Folder 9 Tight inks of Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Huckleberry Hound, Magilla Gorilla, and a funny self-portrait, 1986

Flat Box 1 Folder 10 Western Publishing description of a Witch Hazel story, a negative of a Witch Hazel title, many sheets with Little Lulu and Tubby title logos (possibly for paste-ups?), 1972


Flat Box 2 Folder 7 Various loose sketches and tracings


Flat Box 1 Folder 11 Joseph Torch sketchpad includes many penciled sketches, both bound in and loose, primarily for Little Lulu; two painted sketches on illustration board; a page of practice lettering; two pieces of correspondence