Beaver friend LK sends this link to the historic images at the New York Public Library. Search the keyword “beavers” for some lovely graphics from books, magazines and catalogs. This particularly breathtaking illustration is by AB Frost who joined the golden age of illustraters at Harper’s Magazine in the late 1800’s. He is from the rare school of art where they actually looked at what they were representing and tried to capture what they saw. This means you see a picture of actual beavers, not a picture of what people expect beavers to look like.
