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Booty – Vintage Print

Booty, 1915 May 11 [publication date] — historic drawing
Booty, 1915 May 11 [publication date]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Titled "Booty" and drawn in India ink over pencil, this editorial cartoon by Clubb ran in the Rochester Herald on May 11, 1915, just four days after a German submarine sank the British liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. The sinking killed 1,195 people, including 128 American citizens, and the cartoon's pirate imagery, reflected in its subject headings, expresses the outrage that spread through American newspapers in the following days. Editorial cartoons of this period often delivered a quick moral verdict on current events, and this one shows how the attack was cast as a crime against civilians.

Created / published1915 May 11 [publication date]
Medium1 drawing : India ink over pencil on bristol board ; 43.2 x 36.1 cm. (sheet)
GenreDrawings American 1910-1920.Editorial cartoons American 1910-1920.Periodical illustrations American 1910-1920.
NotesNo copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: Clubb 15 / [club logogram]. Title inscribed in pencil below image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.918) The cartoon reflects outrage over the German sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania, on May 7, 1915 which killed 1,195 persons, including 128 American citizens. Published in: The Rochester Herald, May 11, 1915.
SubjectsLusitania (Steamship)--Disasters--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Moral & ethical aspects. Pirates--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,261 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156099

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