Summary: Print shows a fashionably dressed young woman carrying a bag labeled “1897″ arriving at the entrance of a building and being greeted by a small man with a bespectacled, globe-shaped head, as another woman carrying a bag labeled “1896″ and a paper that states “Very Bad Character – World”, departs.
Cover of Puck, January 16, 1897. Illustrator John S. Pughe.
Library of Congress image.
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Can you imagine that cartoon in any modern publication? It will attract criticism for sexism and ageism!
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Sure, I can imagine it being criticized. However, it’s also rather tame compared to some modern ‘toons (in my humble opinion).
Is that a map of the Americas on the side of Global Head?
That’s what it looks like to me, too.