{"id":364,"date":"2011-05-26T03:26:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=364"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:25:57","slug":"patricia-ziegler-covers-1981-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/patricia-ziegler-covers-1981-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Ziegler Covers 1981-1983"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Livingstone, I presume….The zebra appears in a number of early catalogs as an unofficial mascot called “Livingstone”. Animals would always figure into the catalogs, most memorably for me the Old English Engravings T-Shirts, but nothing with this kind of personality.<\/p><\/div>\n

This second batch of duotone covers from early Banana Republic are all by BR co-founder Patricia Ziegler.<\/p>\n

The animal spots make a return for the 1981 Gift Catalog<\/em>. What really stands out there is the appearance of the 2nd BR store ever–the San Francisco location at Polk and Green. I visited this store in the late 80s when I worked in a Polk Street coffee shop as an art student.<\/p>\n

The Spring 1981<\/em> cover has all the classic elements of Zieglers on safari: The typewriter, the camera, a bottle of champagne. What’s fairly unique is that we see the Zieglers themselves…these scenes are rarely populated with actual people, we usually only see evidence of their lives. I like the sketchbook quality of this cover.<\/p>\n

The Zebra portrait for Summer 1981<\/em> is very engaging. Animals would always figure into the catalogs, most memorably for me the Old English Engravings T-Shirts, but nothing with this kind of personality.<\/p>\n

I thought I recognized the 1982 Gift Catalog<\/em> cover, but had to double check. Indeed, it made a return appearance on the 1984 Holiday catalog<\/a>–fully colored–but the same drawing no mistaking it. Again, my only experience up until now was the familiar post-1984 full color catalog so it’s a fascinating discovery to see these at last. Thanks to BR artist Kevin Sarkki for providing these scans.<\/p>\n

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Another graphic animal print.  Note that store #2 in San Francisco is now open.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Spring 1981 cover has all the classic elements of Zieglers on safari. I like the sketchbook quality of this one. <\/p><\/div>\n

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   This 1982 Gift Catalog cover made a return appearance fully colored on the 1984 Holiday catalog. Note again Livingstone the Zebra with his bowl of kibble.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This second batch of duotone covers from early Banana Republic are all by BR co-founder Patricia Ziegler. The animal spots make a return for the 1981 Gift Catalog. What really stands out there is the appearance of the 2nd BR store ever–the San Francisco location at Polk and Green. I visited this store in the late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1154],"tags":[1127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5937,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/5937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}