[Cartoon showing dirigible balloon full of tourists beside ice-covered skyscraper. The guide is saying: This is New York. Its office buildings are covered with ice and snow the entire year. Many New Yorkers live up there during the summer months]" – Vintage Wall Art
![[Cartoon showing dirigible balloon full of tourists beside ice-covered skyscraper. The guide is saying: This is New York. Its office buildings are covered with ice and snow the entire year. Many New Yorkers live up there during the summer months]", 1909 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/96/96381216a34a-L.webp)
(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 [Cartoon showing dirigible balloon full of tourists beside ice-covered skyscraper. The guide is saying: This is New York. Its office buildings are covered with ice and snow the entire year. Many New Yorkers live up there during the summer months]" in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Cartoon showing dirigible balloon full of tourists beside ice-covered skyscraper. The guide is saying: This is New York. Its office buildings are covered with ice and snow the entire year. Many New Yorkers live up there during the summer months]"
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A guide's deadpan remark that New Yorkers spend their summers among the frost-covered towers gives this 1909 cartoon its punchline, as a dirigible crowded with sightseers drifts beside a skyscraper glazed in ice. A.B. Walker drew it for *Life*, the humor weekly, in its April 29, 1909 issue. The joke plays on two novelties of the age: the skyscraper, which was reshaping the New York skyline, and the airship, still a marvel that could carry tourists over the city. Its exaggerated winter scene shows how much the city's towers already amused and puzzled the public.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Subjects | of cartoon drawing by A.B. Walker in Life, 1909 Apr. 29. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.; Cartoons, US--April 1909; Skyscrapers; NY--NYC--Misc.--1909; Tourists; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,482 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132030 |
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