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This vignette cartoon shows men and women in various social situations where politeness overrides one’s actual emotional response, maintaining decorum and preventing a social disaster.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-01-26
An elderly woman wearing late 19th century clothing labeled “Fashion” gestures toward an “Easter Bonnet” atop a maypole around which many other women have gathered. A smartly-dressed young woman labeled “New Woman” refuses to participate.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-04-08
A fashionably dressed, healthy young woman hangs on the arm of an injured football player. In the background, two hearty young men, a soldier and a sailor, home from military service during the Spanish-American War, and a young man, ill-suited for military service, are standing on the sidelines, no longer favored by the young woman.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-11-23
Uncle Sam and John Bull ice skate with a young woman labeled “American Girl” between them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-12-28
Puck, at top center, manipulates an electric bow-shooting device, which sends arrows toward couples in the surrounding vignettes, where they are sitting beneath trees on the shores of a lake, riding bicycles, canoeing, swimming, boating, playing tennis and golf, and riding in a carriage. Caption: An electric arrow-shooting battery would beat the old-time bow, and […] the hearts of forty times as many victims, with neatness and despatch.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-08-19
High society women with big hats, dogs, a doll, and a chimpanzee, are startled at the prospect that one of their own would desire to become a mother. A young woman holding an infant is sitting at center in a rocking chair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-12-21
A mother sits on a porch with a searchlight trained on her daughter and her boyfriend as they fly overhead in an airplane. Caption: The Maid-in-the-Air (to her Steady) — I think it’s awfully mean of Mamma to keep that searchlight on us wherever we fly!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-16
In a crowded dining room with mostly women and a few men, the women are helping themselves to the table settings and other items that will fit into their purses. An insert shows the horrified reaction of members during “The House Committee’s Inventory.” Caption: Talk about your shoplifters!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-09-14
An attractive woman plays billiards surrounded by four dashing men offering her advice on how to approach a bridge shot. Caption: Expert advice on how to handle it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-06
Two fashionably dressed women, a mother and her daughter, attend a football game. Caption: Mrs. Newcome (her first game)–Oh! isn’t it awful? Horrible! Why, they will kill that man underneath! / Her Daughter (an enthusiast)–Oh! he doesn’t mind it, Mother. He’s unconscious by this time!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-12-20
A beautiful young woman reclines on cushions and holds on the tips of her fingers a diminutive man, well-dressed and holding a large moneybag from which many “silk” strings extend to and form the bottom of her dress. It is a symbiotic relationship.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-10-24
Two young women talk on a beach. Caption: “Julian has saved my life nine times this year.” / “So that is what he meant when he called you a cat!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-29
Young couples embrace or dance, and walk among a grove of trees at night.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-09-05
People dine at sidewalk cafes and dance at a hotel rooftop cabaret, while lovers stroll in the moonlight at Riverside Park. Raymond Crawford Ewer sketches from life New York 1914. Caption: Hotel-top and other views to show that the stay-at-home New Yorker is not to be pitied.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-22
A young woman and a harlequin both hold glasses of wine. A man next to them holds a bottle of wine.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-22
A fashionably dressed young woman talks on a telephone with multiple lines that are connected to twelve men.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-08
A formally dressed diminutive man stands on a dining table set for a banquet with dishes of fish, lobster, turkey, oysters, other foods, and bottles of alcohol blocking his path. Three attractive women in a large goblet extend glasses of wine, beckoning him to come to them. He has taken a step forward and wavers from fear or trepidation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-25
A tall beautiful woman with red hair, wearing a long green dress and a headband with a feather, holds up her hands where perched on her fingers are several diminutive male figures who are courting her with bouquets of flowers, bags of money, by serenading her, appealing to her, and even by threatening suicide.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-25
Vignettes depict scenes of events at Newport, Rhode Island, during the summer: fashionably dressed young women arriving by carriage and automobile, women socializing among themselves and with men, driving automobiles, and yachts in the harbor. Caption: What a Puck artist saw at society’s summer capital.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-11
A well dressed man with a crown on his head sits on the edge of a fishbowl, dangling a crown from a fishing pole among three beautiful young woman as goldfish.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-11