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The big type war of the yellow kids / Leon Barritt. – Antique Wall Art

The big type war of the yellow kids / Leon Barritt., 1898 June 29. — antique lithograph
The big type war of the yellow kids / Leon Barritt., 1898 June 29.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Here the rival publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are cast as the Yellow Kid, the bald, big-eared street urchin from Richard Outcault's comic strip, which ran in Pulitzer's New York World. Hearst had lured Outcault to his New York Journal, so both papers ran the character at once, and the fight over him became a symbol of sensational "yellow journalism." This color lithograph appeared in Vim, a New York humor weekly, in the summer of 1898, when the Spanish-American War was at its height and both papers were competing hard for war news.

Created / published1898 June 29.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreCaricatures American 1890-1900.Editorial cartoons American 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900.
NotesIllus. in Vim, v. 1, no. 2 (29 June 1898).
SubjectsPulitzer, Joseph,--1847-1911. Hearst, William Randolph,--1863-1951. Spanish-American War, 1898. Newspapers--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,199 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117393

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