Discover the fascinating world of animals with 'The Burgess Animal Book for Children' from 1920. This collection features 53 beautiful images by the artist Louis A. Fuertes.
This download features 53 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 300dpi and range in size from 1233 pixels wide/tall to 2765 pixels wide/tall.
This book was written by Thornton Waldo Burgess who was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for his daily newspaper column.
It includes North American wild animal illustrations, including an otter, brown bear, bat, squirrels, a beaver, badger, possum, racoon and many more.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.
The pictures in our art collections are out of copyright in both the UK and the United States. Both countries have had quite different copyright criteria up until recently so read our blog post about public domain copyright rules in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries.
