Three-Way Partying 3!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Back yet again with our up-to-the-century election coverage, via the October and November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, from back in the days when insurgent forces inside the Republican Party split it in two, giving us a major three-way race, plus hope to minor parties that their day might finally be arriving. Above, cartoons involving [...]
General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach Election’s end, I’m bringing in pages from the November as well as the October 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, so post-Election, we’ll be free of politics for awhile. Today, pages addressing mostly the non-Presidential level of the 1912 Election. Above, from October 1912, art by William Kemp Starrett, Robert Satterfield, and Cy [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Above, the front cover of the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Below, that issue’s pages devoted to editorial cartoonists whose work appears in Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to enlarge & view them in greater detail. Above, photo, sample cartoon, and short bio for Matthew Caine. With a drawing of [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
From Cartoons Magazine issues of 1912, we have Presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson, depicted as either fighting monopolies (in the page from November 1912, below), or, slyly aligned with them (the above page, from October 1912). Art by Billy DeBeck, Robert Carter, Alfred West Brewerton, and Harry Osborn (above); and Jack Wilson, W.A. Ireland, Phil Porter [...]
Register to Vote in 1912!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Depending upon your state, you may still be able to Register to Vote, and make a difference in the Election of the Century, one century ago! From the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Cartoons by Lee Stanley, William Charles Morris, Charles Lewis Bartholomew (“Bart”), Tige Reynolds, and others. Click on the above & below [...]
Labor Day: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912, plus more Sacco & Vanzetti
Above, a page of Labor Day cartoons, from the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. From a time when children worked in factories, workers hurt on the job were disposable cogs thrown into the street, companies hired police & thugs to beat up and murder those who attempted to organize unions, weekends off and 8-hour [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We kick off our third annual Back-to-School Month cartoons, with pages on that theme, from the September 1912 (above) and October 1912 (all the pages below, except the last) issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Cartoons above & below by [...]
Summer Heat: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 13 + October 1912
From the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, proof that 100 years ago, it got warm in the Summer! Take that, believers in Global Warming! (P.S. — no need to compare the temperatures involved — these cartoons are “fact” enough! It got hot back then, okay? What do NASA and climate scientists know about planet-wide [...]
R.I.P., Salvation Army Founder, William Booth, August 20th, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
In tribute to Founder of the Salvation Army, General William Booth, April 10th, 1829 to August 20th, 1912. From the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above, to view the cartoons in greater detail. Doug Wheeler Robert Satterfield
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 [...]
