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Laura Wasowicz on the McLoughlin Brothers: Innovators of the 19th Century Picture Book

James P. Ascher

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Early McLoughlin chromolithographed Cinderella

Building on continued research into the history of children’s books and illustration, as well as her recent blog post, Laura Wasowicz presented her paper “McLoughlin Brothers: Innovators of the Nineteenth-Century Picture Book” using the illustration history of Cinderella as a case study to demonstrate the changes in the technology of color illustration and the consumption of children’s literature. [Read more]