Theatrical Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As shown in these cartoons, 1913 was a year in which puritanical America looked at all forms of theater — Vaudeville and silent cinema — as sources of sin, moral decay, and danger. Above, from when America had a patchwork of local censor boards, controlling movies, books, publications, and shows could be shown or sold [...]
Ohio River Flood: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
From Cartoons Magazine, we have coverage of the Ohio River Flood of 1913. Last Year’s Earth Day posting, however, included the Ohio River Flood of 1883, so doing so on that day would have been repetitious. Above, from the March 1913 issue, we have cartoons by Charles “Doc” Winner, Stinson, and Billy DeBeck Click on [...]
The Desperate React: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #114 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Above, Labor Unrest is Britain, depicted by artist W.A. Ireland, from the front cover of the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Due to the Julian Rule that the third month of every year ending in 13, must last two months to make up for the removal of the thirteenth month of Adar by Pope [...]
Women’s History Month: More American Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As this year’s Women’s History Month coverage approaches its end, we have one more round of Women’s Suffrage cartoons from 1913 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and better read the words within them. Above, from the May 1913 issue, artist Carey Orr depicts [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Before we reach month’s end, it’s time we review the Focus on Cartoonists pages from the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, Robert Minor, Jr. writes about the cartoonist’s art. Click on the above & below pagees, to enlarge and read them. Below, Henry C. Williamson continues his series on 19th century cartooning, writing [...]
Women’s History Month: Women in the Military: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Although I’ve been unable to find a specific incident sparking the above cartoon by Robert Minor, Jr. (scanned from the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine), I imagine it possibly referencing a specific lecturer, known to readers of the time. The women depicted listening, are drawn possessing the strength of Suffragettes, fully capable of beating [...]
Women’s History Month: Women’s Wages: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Wage Inequity between the sexes — still an issue being fought today — has likely been with us since the invention of money, though it is eye-brow raising to see that a century ago, when most women had yet to achieve even the right to vote, and when most men were receiving barely a subsistence [...]
Women’s History Month: British Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
While American Suffragettes were parading and demonstrating, their British counter-parts were adapting more radical tactics, such as throwing bricks through shop windows. What percent of British Suffragettes actually engaged in violent or destructive protest, versus non-violent demonstration, I don’t know. But even if just a small number, the anti-suffrage crowd on both sides of the [...]
Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., March 3rd, 1913: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
On March 3rd, 1913 — the day prior to Woodrow Wilson’s Inauguration Parade — the National American Woman Suffrage Association staged their own parade along the next day’s route in support of Women’s Suffrage. During the parade, some women were attacked by male onlookers, while the police present did nothing or joined in. Above & [...]
Women’s History Month: Female Cartoonists 1913: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
What better way for us to begin Women’s History Month, than with a review of the (few) instances in which Cartoons Magazine focused the pages they regularly devoted upon cartoonists themselves, on women. In the monthly title’s first year-and-a-half, these are nearly all of the pages on or by women (we’ll show one next week, [...]
