A Happy New Year 1867/ A Happy New Year 1917

Political Cartoon Comparing NYE 1867 and NYE 1917.jpg

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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.

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Original Format

digitization of a drawing