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The Kin-der-Kids. Melancholy loss of the Jimjam relief expedition's balloon – Antique Print

The Kin-der-Kids. Melancholy loss of the Jimjam relief expedition's balloon, c1906. — antique engraving
The Kin-der-Kids. Melancholy loss of the Jimjam relief expedition's balloon, c1906.. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique engraving captures The Kin-der-Kids. Melancholy loss of the Jimjam relief expedition's balloon in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Here the Kin-der-Kids strip centers on a rescue that goes wrong, as the balloon sent out on the Jimjam relief expedition is lost, and the page carries the melancholy mood its title promises. Lyonel Feininger drew the strip for the Chicago Sunday Tribune, where he worked as a newspaper cartoonist years before he became known as a painter. Balloons and airships were a popular subject in the early 1900s, and this color Sunday page shows how the newspaper comic used that fascination for storytelling. The print was later included in a Feininger exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2003 and 2004.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 print : offset photoengraving, color.
GenreComics American 1900-1910.Prints Color 1900-1910.
NotesF44181, July 28, 1906 Copyright Office Transfer ; Copyright Office. Published in: Chicago Sunday Tribune, July 29, 1906. Exhibited in: Lyonel Feininger's Figurative Paintings, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2003-2004. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860408.
SubjectsBallooning accidents--1900-1910. Balloons (Aircraft)--1900-1910. Children--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,732 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221708

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