The family of Whitney Darrow Jr., a 1931 Princeton alumnus and longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, has donated a collection of more than 1,000 of Mr. Darrow’s original drawings to the Princeton University Library.
The donation includes works from many projects of Mr. Darrow’s 60-year career, including 325 drawings for the New Yorker from 1936 to 1982, as well as 746 drawings for 18 books.
Among the donations is Louise Armstrong’s "A Child’s Guide to Freud," B.M. Atkinson Jr.’s "What Dr. Spock Didn’t Tell Us" and Johnny Carson’s "Happiness Is … a Dry Martini," university officials said.
The donation was made to the Graphic Arts Collection of the library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. It is among the university’s collection of comic art and cartoons, in which original works by Henry Martin, Michael Witte and Henry Payne are included.
"I’m thrilled to see students already making use of this wonderful resource," stated Julie Melby, the library’s graphic arts curator. "The drawings are windows into the social life and culture of the United States over five decades."
The New Yorker published more than 1,500 of Mr. Darrow’s cartoons, officials noted, from 1933 to 1982.
He was born in Princeton and his father was one of the founders of Princeton University Press. As a Princeton student, Mr. Darrow wrote a humor column for The Daily Princetonian and was art editor of the Princeton Tiger humor magazine.
The donated collection is available for use without appointment, officials said, in the reading room of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in Firestone Library.

