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B.C. A caveman riding on a wheel – Historic Print

B.C. A caveman riding on a wheel — historic drawing
B.C. A caveman riding on a wheel. 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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Step back in time with B.C. A caveman riding on a wheel, a historic drawing rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This cartoon's joke is the anachronism: a caveman riding a wheel, a notion that would have puzzled the people it depicts. The "B.C." in the title points to the prehistoric setting of Johnny Hart's comic strip, which began in 1958 and often built its gags on modern objects turning up in the Stone Age. Its catalog subjects also include manholes and unicycles, both everyday urban sights in 1970. The drawing is ink over pencil, reproduced with a halftone screen, a reminder of how newspaper and magazine cartoons were made and printed before digital tools.

Medium1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with halftone screen on bristol board ; 35.4 x 50.7 cm. (sheet)
Notes1970 Dec. 13 [publication date]
SubjectsCave dwellers--1970. Manholes--1970. Unicycles--1970.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,073 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158445

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