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The Yellow Dugan Kid – Vintage Wall Art

The Yellow Dugan Kid, c1896. — historic drawing
The Yellow Dugan Kid, c1896.. Historic drawing 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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A window into the past: The Yellow Dugan Kid, preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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What sets this sheet apart is its title and its paperwork: it is a drawing of the Yellow Kid, here called "The Yellow Dugan Kid," with a letter from Richard F. Outcault requesting copyright, registered on September 9, 1896. The character, a bald, gap-toothed street boy in a long yellow nightshirt, first appeared in Outcault's *Hogan's Alley* comic strip in Joseph Pulitzer's *New York World* in 1895. The strip's bright color printing made it a sensation, and the rivalry for the character between Pulitzer's paper and William Randolph Hearst's *New York Journal* gave the era its name, "yellow journalism." Notice the blue pencil and watercolor, which show how Outcault worked out his color before printing.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 drawing : ink, pencil, watercolor, and blue pencil ; 26.4 x 37 cm. (sheet)
GenreCartoons (Commentary) American 1890-1900.Drawings Color 1890-1900.
NotesOutcault's letter requesting copyright and drawing of character, registered September 9, 1896 with registration number 50565. Transfer, Copyright Office. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860529.
SubjectsChildren--1890-1900. Fictitious characters--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,070 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124340

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