The big type war of the yellow kids / Leon Barritt. – 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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Step back in time with The big type war of the yellow kids / Leon Barritt., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The big type war of the yellow kids / Leon Barritt.
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Two children brawl over a yellow-tinted street urchin in this color lithograph, a stand-in for the rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Both men's New York papers had competed for Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid comic, and their sensational coverage gave the era the term "yellow journalism." The caricature ran in *Vim*, a satirical weekly, in the summer of 1898, just as headline-driven reporting on the Spanish-American War was at its most heated. Its bold color printing shows how cartoonists of the period used the lithograph to comment on the press.
| Created / published | 1898 June 29. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Caricatures American 1890-1900.Editorial cartoons American 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Illus. in Vim, v. 1, no. 2 (29 June 1898). |
| Subjects | Pulitzer, Joseph,--1847-1911. Hearst, William Randolph,--1863-1951. Spanish-American War, 1898. Newspapers--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,430 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217768 |
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