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Title
A Happy New Year 1867/ A Happy New Year 1917
Subject
Compares the New Years Celebrations half a century apart.
Description
A Political Cartoon comparing how New Year's Eve celebrations changed between 1867 and 1917. A Two-page drawing in Life magazine. 1916. In 1867 the Fourteenth Amendment would be ratified the next year, 1917 World War I would end the next year and women would receive suffrage not long after that. The drawing show how much change there can be in half a century, and also how much the women changed because of the Women's Rights Movement.
Creator
Rea Irvin
Source
Life magazine
Publisher
Library of Congress
Date
1916. Published 1917.
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
digitization of a drawing