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THREATENED BASEBALL STRIKE OF 1914 - NY TRIBUNE CARTOON - CLARENCE O. KRAFT

$ 13.17

Availability: 43 in stock

Description

VINTAGE EDITORIAL CARTOON:  Uncle Sam: "Them rascals had me plumb scared." Baseball fan "They Ain't Goin' to be no Strike"
New York Tribune, July 22, 1914. Original not a modern reproduction. Includes the short editorial column + article with some loss of text to left margin with
photograph
of Clarence O. Kraft.
DESCRIPTION: Trimmed from newspaper page with some margin text unrelated to the cartoon.
Size 8 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, excluding the margins -- the first image is cropped and the second shows the trimmed cartoon in full.
CONDITION: ageing fragile paper, some short tears repaired on backside with archival tape. Should be handled with care; a very good candidate for framing (some paper conservation recommended). Stored in a clear sleeve.
Artist: Boardman Robinson
(1876-1952, Canadian-American artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
In 1910, Robinson took a job on the staff of the New York Tribune drawing editorial cartoons, a position which he retained for four years. With the eruption of World War I in 1914, Robinson's increasingly radical anti-militarist political views brought him into conflict with his employer and he quit the publication.
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