African American History Month: Higgins Soap, c1880s
To close out African American History Month, we present the following trade card (i.e., advertising cards) series, given away in the 1880′s by Higgins Soap. While it does have stereotyped dialect (and one use of “Sambo”), it otherwise (in my opinion) avoids a racist presentation. It’s especially refreshing, in comparison to other cartooned soap advertisements [...]
African American History Month: Light & Shade, 1892
WARNING: The below 19th century strip contains racist imagery and language. The 1892 giveaway booklet Light and Shade, advertising Dreydoppel Soap, and containing the below 8-panel story, is (in my opinion) the most heinous piece of comic strip advertising I’ve ever seen. I debated myself over whether I could stomach scanning and posting this horrible, [...]
African American History Month: Southern Lynchings & Queen Cotton
WARNING: One of the below cartoons includes racist imagery. We continue our African American History Month coverage, with a few images from Cartoons Magazine (above) and The Daily Worker (below). Above, “This Judge’s Recall Favored” by John Campbell Cory, from the September 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine. Beneath, “This is our State Right” by Fred [...]
African American History Month: Geo W. Helme Company, 1888
WARNING: The below 19th century strip contains racist imagery and language. Continuing our coverage of African American History Month, we have today another comic booklet by the Geo. W. Helme Co., manufacturer of Railroad Mills Snuff & Tobacco. Published in 1888, only two decades after the end of slavery, this is an example of how [...]
African American History Month: Nebuchadnezzar Whoa, Sah! c1870s
WARNING: The below 19th century strip contains racist imagery and language. Continuing our African American History Month coverage, we present the circa 1870s fold-out comic strip Nebuchadnezzar Whoa, Sah!, published for Crescent Tobacco, by C.A. Jackson & Co. This giveaway comic, is one of many published in the 19th Century. While all types of products [...]
African American History Month: Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism, 1864
WARNING: The below 19th century cartoon includes racist slurs. We open this year’s coverage of African American History Month, with the above cartoon broadsheet, published by G.W. Bromley & Co., on July 1st, 1864. It is part of a series of anti-Lincoln / anti-Abolition cartoons, published by Bromley, on how the abolition of slavery, would [...]
Teddy Roosevelt: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach the Grand Finale of our political circus, SuperI.T.C.H. strives to keep you up on every twist & turn — from one century ago. Today our focus swings back to former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, seeking to return for a third term. He was running against not only the Democrats, but also against [...]
The Bull Moose Party vs. the Black Vote: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
WARNING: The below posting contains racist cartoons. We’ve shown a few racist cartoons in our chronological presentation of the material that ran in Cartoons Magazine, but this is the largest & worst group of such cartoons thus far. Some people would simply not show them, afraid that giving them wide visibility might perpetuate the attitudes [...]
The 1912 Cuban Intervention: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 5
WARNING: Contains racist imagery! Extracted from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, the above two pages preceded the 1912 U.S. Invasion/Intervention of Cuba, to put down an armed uprising of Afro-Cubans, who were rebelling against discrimination and poor living conditions. The uprising was known in Cuba as the “Little Race War”, and was led [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 4 + Themes Revue
Above & below, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, are a couple pages of cartoons on the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Above, American cartoons, including one by Robert Satterfield; beneath, two views from the Italian comic publication, Turin Fischietto. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
