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This collection contains four editorial cartoons drawn by Dorothy McKay (1904-1974), an American cartoonist. Two of the cartoons are watercolor, ink, and wash on board, and two are brush and ink on board. Each work is signed as either "McKay" or "D. McKay" at its corner. Three of the cartoons were illustrated for Esquire magazine, where McKay was employed as its first female cartoonist, and one for Collier's magazine. Publishing marks and stamps appear at the recto and on the verso of each cartoon. The earliest cartoon, "Just grab one, madam, and cut out the twittering," published in Collier's in 1937, shows a woman in an elegant dress looking at a tray of desserts held by an impatient butler. The second cartoon, "He's still on his lunch hour, but I'll take the nickel," is dated November 1944 and depicts a man speaking to a woman as both look down at a monkey in a suit sleeping against a fire hydrant. The third cartoon, "Well, thank God you hear singing too, Dear...I thought I was going crazy in this lonely office" was published January 1954. The full color scene features a group of men singing at a bar with drinks and a man ducked into a telephone booth speaking this his wife, attempting to convince her that he is at the "lonely office." The fourth illustration, "Why don't you do something, dear, besides just make money?" is dated September 1956 and shows a husband and wife in their living room with the woman working at an easel.

Papers of Eleanor "Ellie" Schaul, a prominent West Virginia artist and arts advocate.

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.

This collection contains a scrapbook belonging to Joy Rebekah Kime Benton (1886-1957) of Burlington, North Carolina, an author, poet, painter, and weaver. The contents of scrapbook items are principally documents from 1905 to 1908, although some paste-ins are from the 1930s. There are 128 pages with photographs, clippings, drawings, and ephemera pasted and laid in.

This collection contains two notebooks and two sketchbooks kept by Julie Baugnet, a book artist and painter from St. Paul, Minnesota. The notebooks contain Baugnet's observations of epidemiologists and other experts as well as other information on COVID-19 that was being publicly disseminated and notes for her COVID-19 projects. "Covid Notes #1" is dated February 21, and features Baugnet's notes on Dr. Michael Osterholm's podcast on the pandemic. On the cover of the notebook is "info for my journals and sketchbooks" and on its interior end page are descriptions of her "Covid Journals # 1-33" projects. The notes date from 2021 and appear to be ideas for journals 3 and 4. The second notebook is titled "Covid Notes #2, 2020-2021" and is a continuation of Baugnet's notes on the same Osterholm podcast. The notebook entries are dated from 2021 to 2022. The content of the two notebooks, aside from notetaking on Osterholm's outlook, discusses themes of sheltering, isolation, spread of COVID-19, vaccinations, schools, maintaining relationships during the lockdowns, alterations to holiday traditions, and ideas and notes for her COVID-19 related book projects.