Guided Tours

Print Processes

This guided tour provides an overview of the various color and black and white print processes used to reproduce dime novel and story paper illustrations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There is also a bibliography of selected sources for more information.

Tour of a Dime Novel Cover

This guided tour provides an explanation of the elements one would typically find on a cover during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Stanford Collection

This guided tour provides gives detailed information about Stanford's collection, and more general information about other Dime Novel collections of distinction in the United States.