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[Cover of Tecnocracy Number of Judge, illustrated with 3 men dancing, machinery and mathematical figures] – Vintage Print

[Cover of Tecnocracy Number of Judge, illustrated with 3 men dancing, machinery and mathematical figures], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
[Cover of Tecnocracy Number of Judge, illustrated with 3 men dancing, machinery and mathematical figures], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print 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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The cover shows three men dancing among gears, machinery, and mathematical figures, a lively way for the humor magazine *Judge* to handle a serious subject. The record gives no date, but the Technocracy label points to the early 1930s, when the movement, which called for control of industry by engineers and scientists rather than politicians, drew wide attention in the United States during the Depression. The image is a halftone reproduction of an original drawing, so the fine lines and shading were broken into dots for printing. Its satire of the movement's technical jargon makes it useful for studying how popular illustrators treated economic reform.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesHalftone repro. of drawing. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Technocracy; Cartoons.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,104 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158049

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