Blah, they'll soon forget him! He's only a hero! – Antique 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 print captures Blah, they'll soon forget him! He's only a hero! in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Blah, they'll soon forget him! He's only a hero!
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Its title, "Blah, they'll soon forget him! He's only a hero!", gives the drawing a sour edge that is easy to miss at first glance. It ran in *Life* on June 16, 1927, less than a month after Charles Lindbergh landed near Paris, completing the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic. *Life* was then a general-interest humor weekly, not the photojournalism magazine it later became, so the cartoon reflects the wry, skeptical tone its readers expected. The record links it to Lindbergh's biography file, and its joke about fleeting public memory captures how quickly national adulation could turn into restlessness.
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1927 |
| Subjects | Halftone repro. of cartoon drawing by C.H. Sykes in Life, 1927 June 16. Reference copy may be available in BIOG FILE - Lindbergh, Charles Augustus. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Aviation--1927; Cartoons, US; Artists, Publ. I.; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,129 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137189 |
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