Publishers and publishing-- Kentucky-- Louisville-- History-- Sources; Printing--Kentucky--Louisville; Book illustrations; Technical illustrations; Textbooks
John P. Morton and Company was a publisher based in Louisville, Kentucky for much of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries.
The University of Louisville’s Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library has between 1300 and 1400 woodblocks the...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. The images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: title page for "Primary Arithmetic for use in Academies and Common...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. The images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: title page for "The American Spelling-Book"; title page for "The...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the "New Fourth School Reader" and the JPM & Co. insignia, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from top to...
Advertisements; Children; Books; Textbooks; Animals; Reading; Men
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the JPM & Co. advertisement and the New Second and New Third School Readers, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of,...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the word "AND" and the circular image of a house on an urban street, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left...
Woodblock prints of large images from left to right starting at top left, and smaller images from top to bottom at right and from left to right beneath large images: border of flowers surrounding picture of young child, with blank space beneath;...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: illustrated title page for "The Child's Grammar," by E.M. Murch (with picture of outdoor scene of girl reading aloud to other children, most of them seated and holding books); chemistry...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: Kirtland's Clothing House and neighboring buildings and street (Fourth & Jefferson Street); illustrated title page for "The Fourth School Reader" by Noble Butler (with picture of two older...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: main building and quadrangle of a campus, with insets of a long, low building, a four-story building with dome, and a body of water surrounded by fence; illustrated title page for "The American...
Men; Women; Children; Animals; Textbooks; Wagon trains; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Medical aspects of war; Soldiers; Uniforms; Battlefields; Jack-o-lanterns; Zoo animals; Intoxication
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: man behind tree watches owl perched on boat; title page for Morton & Griswold's "Western Farmer's Almanac 1870" (with scenes of wagon train, implying westward migration, and of a group of...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: title page for "American School Series. Butler's Third School Reader. By Noble Butler. Author of Butler's English Grammars, Etc. Louisville, Ky. John P. Morton and Company.", featuring image...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: title page for "Home and School Journal of Popular Education"; portrait of man seated in chair, wearing glasses; cube, dissected by smaller cubes, with labeled endpoints; number 26; cow with...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: title page for "Primary Arithmetic for use in Academies and Common Schools by P. A. Towne. Louisville Ky. John P. Morton & Co."; chicken; rectangular image with blank space inside and...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left (all images signed "Hartwell" unless otherwise noted): Sardanapalus (Assyrian king) seated on throne holding a goblet aloft, with men and women in attendance; scene in city square;...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left, and all signed "Hartwell": "Introduction," with camels, giraffes, lions, zebras, and vegetation; bearded man with turban in foreground, and man on horseback in...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: Two men in wide-brimmed hats guide rickshaw carried by donkeys at front and rear; children riding in horse-drawn sleigh; dog chasing man attempting to leap over fence; woman pointing out...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: illustrated title page for "Introductory Lessons in English Grammar," by Noble Butler (with picture of three children seated at table reading a book); man bent, holding hat...
Indians of North America; Children; Animals; Danger; Rescue work; Buildings; Textbooks; Steam engines
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: Indigenous people, most holding spears and one holding a quiver of arrows on his back, confer; two birds; turkey approaching boy wielding stick (with hoop and hat on the ground) and...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: title page for "American School Series. New First School Reader by Noble Butler A.M. John P. Morton & Co. Louisville, Kentucky." with image of girl playing with dogs and...
