Teaching old dogs new tricks"" – 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 Teaching old dogs new tricks"", a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Teaching old dogs new tricks""
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Held's cover takes the old saying about teaching old dogs new tricks and applies it to the dance craze of the day, the Charleston. John Held Jr. was one of the most recognizable illustrators of the 1920s, known for his stylized flappers and sleek young men, and this drawing ran on the cover of *Life* on February 18, 1926. The Charleston, a fast, kicking step that swept American dance floors in the mid-1920s, gave many older Americans a sense that they were the ones being asked to learn something new. Held's wry, slangy humor made him a favorite with the magazine's readers.
| Medium | 1 item. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1926 |
| Subjects | Repr. of drawing by John Held, Jr., on cover of LIFE, 1926 Feb. 18. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Maxims (Cartoon th.); PI--Works; Dance (Charleston); Cartoons, US; Flappers; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,190 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128344 |
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