Tag Archives: 1910’s

1912: Butterflies

Posted on July 2, 2021 by corvusfugit

Odilon Redon: Evocation of Butterflies (ca. between 1910 and 1912)

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5650: The Last Day of Manhattan

Posted on June 24, 2021 by corvusfugit

In 1905, the great comic strip artist Windsor McCay illustrated a series of satiric science fiction vignettes by the prolific author, humorist, and editor John Kendrick Bangs. The series ran in The New York Herald and other newspapers and featured … Continue reading →

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1918: Munitions Girls

Posted on May 7, 2020 by corvusfugit

Stanhope Forbes: The Munitions Girls (1918)

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1915: Children of Eve

Posted on April 6, 2020 by corvusfugit

Capitalist Henry Clay Madison is unmoved by the specter of a child laborer in John H. Collins’s Children of Eve (1915).

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1919: Queen Alice

Posted on March 1, 2020 by corvusfugit

Illustrations from a 1919 photoplay edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (source). The photos are stills from the 1915 silent film adaptation of the books, which starred Viola Savoy as Alice.