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Bringing up father. My Jiggs he's a prize winner will you give it" – Historic Print

Bringing up father. My Jiggs he's a prize winner will you give it", 1916 Oct. 2 [publication date] — historic drawing
Bringing up father. My Jiggs he's a prize winner will you give it", 1916 Oct. 2 [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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Step back in time with Bringing up father. My Jiggs he's a prize winner will you give it", a historic drawing 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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The caption, "My Jiggs he's a prize winner, will you give it," points to the premise of George McManus's comic strip *Bringing Up Father*, which Hearst's newspapers began running in 1913. Jiggs, a working-class bricklayer who comes into a sweepstakes fortune, and his wife Maggie, eager to join New York high society, drive the strip's humor through the clash between his old habits and her social ambitions. This drawing, inked over pencil on bristol board and dated for publication in early October 1916, comes from a period when the strip was already widely read and its two leads were familiar to newspaper audiences.

Created / published1916 Oct. 2 [publication date]
Medium1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with blue pencil, and scraping out on bristol board ; 33.5 x 29.2 cm. (sheet)
NotesSWANN - no. 568 (A size) (A size) [P&P]
SourceLibrary of Congress
Original scan1,342 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158448

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