Christmas Eve preparation – Vintage 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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This rare historic drawing captures Christmas Eve preparation in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Christmas Eve preparation
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A Christmas Eve cartoon from December 1932 places Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover beside John Q. Public, the everyman figure cartoonists used for ordinary citizens. Roosevelt had defeated Hoover in the November election, so the drawing captures a country waiting out the long interval before the new administration took office in March 1933. Holiday cartoons of the Depression years often used seasonal scenes to comment on hard times, and this one was probably published in the Washington Star. Its title and its three figures suggest the cartoonist was making a point about who would carry the nation's burdens into the new year.
| Created / published | 1932 Dec. 24. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) American.Drawings. |
| Notes | Probably published in: Washington star. (DLC/PP-1945.R1.440) This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860129. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945. Hoover, Herbert,--1874-1964. Public, John Q. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,342 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114342 |
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