Wreckreation
Subject(s): Accidents, Automobile driving, Fishing, Hunting, Mountaineering, Recreation, Sports
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Vignettes show accidents taking place in various forms of recreation. At center is an automobile accident involving a horse-drawn carriage. Surrounding scenes show golf and baseball, hunting and fishing, and mountain climbing.
Comments and Context
“Wreckreation,” the second major contribution to Puck by the forgotten master Harry Grant Dart, is not a political cartoon but social commentary verging on grim humor.
His centerspread theme-and-variations addresses the dubious pleasures, if not the dangers, of popular sports and pastimes of the day.
Dart’s drawing style was similar to that of Albert Levering; and both cartoonists drew more often for Puck‘s rival, Life, at the time. It is possible they were enticed to Puck‘s pages during the absences of young J. S. Pughe, who often was ill during 1908 and unable to work. Otherwise J. S. Pughe and S. Ehrhart addressed these types of subjects in the magazine’s centerspreads.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1908-05-27
Creator(s)
Period
U.S. President – 2nd Term (March 1905-February 1909)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Page Count
1
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
Wreckreation. [May 27, 1908]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o286116. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Dart, Harry Grant, 1869-1938. Wreckreation. [27 May. 1908]. Image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. May 14, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o286116.
APA:
Dart, Harry Grant, 1869-1938., [1908, May 27]. Wreckreation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o286116.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. May 14, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
APA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
