Scene in Ryan's Arcade on the morning of new year's day / R.F. Outcault. The bicyclist's revenge; or, How the Katzenjammer Kid got caught / R. Dirks. – Historic Print
(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: Scene in Ryan's Arcade on the morning of new year's day / R.F. Outcault. The bicyclist's revenge; or, How the Katzenjammer Kid got caught / R. Dirks., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Scene in Ryan's Arcade on the morning of new year's day / R.F. Outcault. The bicyclist's revenge; or, How the Katzenjammer Kid got caught / R. Dirks.
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Outcault's New Year's morning scene from Ryan's Arcade shares its Journal page with R. Dirks's "The Bicyclist's Revenge," which stars the Katzenjammer Kid, a mischievous character Dirks had introduced only weeks earlier. Both strips ran in the New York Journal's Sunday edition of December 26, 1897, as Hearst's paper competed hard for readers with color comic pages. The subjects listed for the print, hangovers, roller skating, and cycling, reflect the holiday revelry and the wheel and skate fads of the decade. The color is worth noticing, since multicolor printing was still a novelty on newspaper pages at the time.
| Created / published | 1897 December 26. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Comics American 1890-1900.Offset lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Illus. in: New York Journal, Sunday, December 26, 1897, p. 4. |
| Subjects | Hangovers--1890-1900. Roller skating--1890-1900. Cycling--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,128 × 1,432 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217780 |
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