Three-Way Partying!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
We look back again to 1912, the year that America experimented with partying threeways! Added to spice things up between the longtime duo of Democratic and Republican parties, was the hot new star, the Progressive Party. Via the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, cartoons for and against Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Below, the same, [...]
Poor Astor Baby: Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year 1912
In August 1912, Mrs. Madeleine Talmage Astor gave birth to her son. This captured attention, not really because it was a new child born into wealthy aristocracy, but because Mr. & Mrs. Astor had been returning from their honeymoon, aboard the Titanic, and Madeleine Astor had been pregnant while onboard. The newborn John Jacob Astor [...]
Post-Nomination Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Cartoons Magazine‘s close-up on cartoonists for September 1912, focused on Herbert Johnson and Alfred West Brewerton. Click on the above picture, to read their bios, plus to see in detail their Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt cartoons they are shown with. Above, sitting President William Howard Taft, depicted by cartoonists Luther D. Bradley, Charles Lewis [...]
NYPD Becker Scandal, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 10 + September 1912 thru January 1913
Above, from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, are cartoons by Charles Bowers and others — concerning corruption in the New York City Police Department in general, inspired by the case of police officer/criminal/convicted murderer Charles Becker (click on his name, to read about his case). Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
