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| Creator: | Drucker, Boris. |
| Title: | Boris Drucker Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1945-2004 |
| Quantity: | 33 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American cartoonist, illustrator. Original cartoons (1967-1986); memorabilia including a scrapbook of sketches made in India, 1945; and material on his children's book, Henrietta. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
Boris Drucker was an American artist, illustrator and cartoonist. Drucker lived and worked in Philadelphia for most of his career, and died there in January 2009.
Boris Drucker was born in Center City Philadelphia on 22 May 1920. After graduating from West Philadelphia High School in 1938, he received his training at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (later known as the Philadelphia College of Art, now part of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia). Drucker got his start in magazine publishing in 1946, when he had come back from his overseas experience in the Second World War. His final years at the art school had put him on an advertising track, and from the late 1940s until the middle of the 1960s, this is what he pursued in Philadelphia.
In 1966, after a brief stint of teaching advertising and commercial art, Drucker went to New York to open a studio and at the age of forty-six was accepted as a New Yorker cartoonist. The third phase of Drucker' s career had started. Cartooning and advertising had been the two main pillars of his early work, but he began to work more directly for industry clients for whom cartoon illustrations communicated more clearly than photographs. Along the way, Drucker found time to work up various ideas for cartoon strips, including a 1960s proposal for Future Boy. In the last phase of his productive and varied career, Drucker concentrated on commercial work for industry clients and created batch after batch of cartoons that commented on the passing scene with his unique attitude and drawing style. In addition to hundreds of published works, he produced approximately twelve thousand rough drawings that he donated to the Special Collections Research Center.
After all these years of having his work published and with all the recognition he has received, Drucker commented that "You never loose the kick of seeing your work in print."
In 2005 Syracuse University sponsored a retrospective exhibition of Boris Drucker’s work “Don’t Pay Any Attention To Him, He’s 90% Water” at the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery in New York.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Boris Drucker Papers includes original artwork, correspondence, sketchbooks, cartoons, personal memorabilia, scrapbooks, and illustrations for his children's book, Henrietta. The collection is currently undergoing extensive reprocessing to incorporate new material.
Arrangement of the Collection
Original cartoons are arranged based on numbers assigned to them by Drucker. Commercial art is arranged alphabetically by client/company name. Cartoon series are arranged alphabetically by name of the series. Published cartoons are arranged alphabetically by name of publication in which they appeared. Correspondence is alphabetical by correspondent. Memorabilia is alphabetical by type or topic.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Related Material
Special Collections Research Center has collections of over one hundred cartoonists. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Subject Headings
Persons
Associated Titles
Subjects
Genres and Forms
Occupations
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Boris Drucker Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Boris Drucker, 1966-1987.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: CMV
Date: 4 Dec 1978
Revision history: 16 Mar 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC);
4 Apr 2009 - updated, expanded (PRB);
Jun 2009 - additions (PRB);
3 May 2012 - oversize box no.s updated (MRC)
Inventory
| Artwork | |||||||||||
| Original cartoons | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | #1 - #2099 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | #2100 - #4209 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | #4210 - #5998 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | #5999 - #7402 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | #7403 - #10907 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | #10908 - #12615 | ||||||||||
| Box 6A | #12617-12895 and unnumbered | ||||||||||
| Commercial art | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | American Telephone and Telegraph undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | American Telephone and Telegraph (oversize) undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | American Tobacco Company 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | American Veterinary Medical Association undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | America’s Independent Electric Light and Power Companies 1956 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Armstrong Cork Company 1978 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Atlantic Richfield Company 1977 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Atlas Powder Company 1959 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Attapulgus Minerals & Chemicals Corporation 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Avis Rent-A-Truck undated | ||||||||||
| Avisco Films | |||||||||||
| See FMC Corporation | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Balmoral Beach Hotel Nassau, Bahamas undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Beryllium Corporation undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Bethlehem Steel 1982, 1987, 1989, undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company of Canada 1956 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Blue Bell, Inc. 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Blue Cross Blue Shield 1960, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Breyers Ice Cream undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Brooklyn Union Gas Company 1953 | ||||||||||
| Campus Direct | |||||||||||
| See Student Advantage, Inc.. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Cannon Mills, Inc. 1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Certainteed Corporation undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Champion Spark Plugs 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Chevrolet 1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Christ Episcopal Church Woodbury, MN 1966 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Chrysler Corporation 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Chrysler Corporation, Parts Division 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Compensation and Capital, Incorporated 1980 | ||||||||||
| Comptometer | |||||||||||
| See Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Consolidated Cigar Corporation 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Consolidated Press 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Continental Can Company 1972 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Dallas Transit System 1983 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | DeSoto, Inc. 1973-1975 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Devon Energy Corporation 1983 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Diamond State Telephone Company undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Doktor Pet Center 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Drake Press 1953, 1954 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | DuPont 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | EduWorld, Inc. 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Ethicon Hospital Supplies 1978, 1979 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co. 1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Fidelity Bank Philadelphia, PA 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Fidelity Philadelphia Trust Company 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Finley Playground Philadelphia, PA 1975, 1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Fiorillo, Maddalena attorney at law Tucson, AZ 1998 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | First National Safe Deposit Corporation Jenkintown, PA 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company Philadelphia, PA 1956, 1958 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company Philadelphia, PA (oversize) 1956, 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Florida Department of Commerce undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | FMC Corporation Philadelphia, PA 1965 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | FMC Corporation Philadelphia, PA (oversize) 1956, 1958 | ||||||||||
| Frito-Lay, Inc. | |||||||||||
| See Pepsico, Inc. | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | [W.W.] Grainger, Inc. 1977 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Gilbert/Commonwealth, Inc. 1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Gray & Rogers Advertising Philadelphia, PA 1951 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | GTE Sylvania Corporation 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Gulf Oil Corporation 1963 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | [P.H.] Hanes Knitting Company 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | [A.S.] Hansen, Inc. 1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Hertz Corporation undated | ||||||||||
| High Gradient | |||||||||||
| See Selas Corporation of America | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Hills Brothers Coffee, Inc. undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Hitchcock Clinic Hanover, NH 1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Honeywell Corporation 1980 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | I-T-E Circuit Breaker Company 1964-1967 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Insurance Company of North America 1951, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Jason’s Chicken, Inc. Philadelphia, PA 1978 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | The Learning Child 1971-1973 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Leath-Maxwell 1972 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Lee Tires 1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Leeds & Lippincott Company 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | MHRA 1977? | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | [P.R.] Mallory & Co., Inc. undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Marathon Oil Corporation undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | McCall’s undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Mead Paper undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Monitor Leasing and Financial Services 1993-2006 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Morgan’s (restaurant) New York, NY 1980 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | National Fibre Company of Canada,Ltd. 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | National Football League Players’ Association 1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | New School for Social Research 1981 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | The New Yorker 1988, 1990, undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Nicholson File 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Nordisk Pharmaceuticals (Denmark) 1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Olin 1973 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Pelican Cove, FL undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Penn Salt undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | The Pennsylvania Company undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Pennsylvania Railroad undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Pepsico, Inc 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Philadelphia Orchestra 1972 | ||||||||||
| Philadelphia Savings Fund Society | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Outdoor posters 1950s-1960s | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Annual reports 1952, 1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Annual reports 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Christmas Club 1964, undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Newspaper ads 1957 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Vacation Club 1956-1959, undated | ||||||||||
| Phillies Cigars | |||||||||||
| See Consolidated Cigar Corporation | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Polk Miller Products Corp. 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Radio Corporation of America 1969, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Risdon Corporation 1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Rittenhouse-Fitler Square Neighborhood Security Committee Philadelphia, PA 1997-2000 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Riverdale Country School Riverdale, NY 1971 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Rohm and Haas Company 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Royal Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Company 1964 | ||||||||||
| Sand and Spray | |||||||||||
| See Leeds & Lippincott Company | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Savannah Foods, Inc. 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Seabrook Farms 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Sealtest 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Securities Industry Automation Corporation 1972 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Selas Corporation of America 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| Sergeant’s | |||||||||||
| See Polk Miller Products | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Sewell Corporation 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Sharp & Dohme 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Sorbus Inc. 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Standard Products 1999 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Stevens Textiles 1968-1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Student Advantage, Inc. undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Stylepark Hats, Inc. undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | The Sunday Bulletin Philadelphia, PA 1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Turnkey (Chicago) 1976 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | TV Guide 1960, 1971, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Unifirst Federal Savings Bank Building Hollywood, FL 1986 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | United Energy Services Corporation undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Valley Forge Convention and Visitors’ bureau undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Voice Processing Equipment Company 1989 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Whitman’s Chocolates 1956 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Yale & Towne 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Yellow Cab Company of Philadelphia undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Yes Tissues 1947 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Cartoon series | |||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Animal Alphabet | ||||||||||
| See also Published cartoons: Good Housekeeping (Box 9) | |||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Cliff and Ivy | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Future Boy | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Look at the State They’re In (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| See also Published cartoons: Saturday Evening Post (Box 9) | |||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Miles Hai | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4A | The Perfect Squelch (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| See also Published cartoons: Saturday Evening Post (Box 9) | |||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Victoria and Ivy | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | You Be the Judge | ||||||||||
| See also Published cartoons: Saturday Evening Post (Box 9) | |||||||||||
| Finished cartoons (sold) | |||||||||||
| Oversize 6 | Identified | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7 | Identified | ||||||||||
| Oversize 8 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Oversize 8A | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Oversize 9 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Oversize 9A | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Oversize 10 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Published cartoons | |||||||||||
| Box 9 | Argosy undated | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Changing Times 1971-1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Colliers 1946-1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Common Cents 1977-1978 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Cosmopolitan 1973-1974 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Family Week 1965, 1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Good Housekeeping 1971 | ||||||||||
| See also Cartoon series: Animal Alphabet (Oversize 4) | |||||||||||
| Box 9 | Holiday 1951, 1953, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Horticulture 1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Ladies Home Journal 1969 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Look 1962-1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Managed Care 1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Medical Economics 1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Medical Opinion & Review 1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Modern Maturity 1993-1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Natural History 1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Monitor 2005 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | The New Yorker 1971-1997, undated (7 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | OBG Management 1991, 1992, 1994, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Parade 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Parents 1992, 1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Pediatric Management 1991, 1992, 1994, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Playboy 1976-1995, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Punch 1968-1969, 1988-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Saturday Evening Post 1946-1973, undated (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| See also the following under Artwork: Cartoon series: Look at the State They’re In The Perfect Squelch You Be the Judge |
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| Box 9 | The Saturday Review 1971-1972, 1974 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Suburbia Today 1962-1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | This Week 1951-1952, 1954, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Smoke 1996, 1998, 2000 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Sports Illustrated 1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Time 1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Tour 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | True 1953, 1968-1972, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | TV Guide 1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | U.S. News & World Report 1979 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Vista of the United Nations Association 1968, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | World 1973 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Student artwork | |||||||||||
| Box 9 | Watercolor 1934 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art 1940, 1941 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (oversize) 1940, 1941 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Army sketches 1943-1946, undated (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Miscellaneous sketches | ||||||||||
| Correspondence/subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Changing Times | ||||||||||
| Devine, Rose | |||||||||||
| See "Perfect Menus for Perfect Dinner Parties" (Box 10) | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Drucker, A. B. | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Foster, — | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Gilliam, Art | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Gray & Rogers | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Gross, Sam | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Hallmark Cards | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Hams, Jud | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Junior Miss | ||||||||||
| Lafferty, Mary Loretta | |||||||||||
| See "Perfect Menus for Perfect Dinner Parties" (Box 10) | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | National Peace Action Coalition | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | The New Yorker | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | "Perfect Menus for Perfect Dinner Parties" | ||||||||||
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||||||||||
| See Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Random House | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Saturday Evening Post | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | United States Army Air Force Personnel Distribution Command | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Wall Street Journal | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | West Philadelphia High School | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Wither, Barbara (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | Henrietta | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Clippings (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 12 | Clippings (oversize) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 13 | Exhibition: "Don't pay any attention to him, he's 90% water." | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Military (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Photographs (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Scrapbook 1958 (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 14 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||