Olympic Games: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 8
For Opening Day of the London Olympics, we have a few cartoons from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine.
Above, Uncle Sam, tired of the dirty sport of politics, looks forward to a diversion of the “clean sports” of the Olympics.
Below, a rather racist cartoon involving Native American athlete, Jim Thorpe.
Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in greater detail.
Below, Suffragettes shown as Olympic athletes, parodying the (then) recent trend of (a few) Women’s Suffrage advocates taking on the tactics of modern anarchists — smashing shop windows with bricks.
We’ll have a much larger group of Olympic cartoons — and ones not as tangential as these — for the day of the Closing Ceremonies.
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— Doug
