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The World in 1910As seen in visual culture
American Politics
• The Frontier is “closed” as of 1893
America is a global power
Spanish American War
• Newspaper coverage• Yellow Journalism
• ““You furnish the pictures, I’ll provide the war!”— William R. Hearst
• The Yellow Kid, Hogan’s Alley
• Halftone Printing Process (invented in 1873)
Shooting Captured Insurgents", reenactment probably filmed in New Jersey. Edison films catalog description: A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking picture.
• Wreckage of the Maine
Halftone printing
• Spanish American War 1898 establishes US prominence in the world (the “Rough Riders” are volunteer army)
• “A splendid little war”
• rough riders archival footage
Thomas Edison, troops marching (Spanish American war)
After the Spanish American War
• Labor Unions• Non-interventionism• Suffrage & men’s & women’s roles• Woodrow Wilson’s promise to keep US out of WWI• German subs at US shores?• Lusitantia
Unions & Labor
John Sloan cartoon for Woman’s Journal, April 1911
• George Bellows, Blessed are the Peacemakers, The Masses, 1917
• Cartoon from the New York Globe during World War I, trying to portray anti-war Wobblies (IWW) as linked to the German Kaiser
• Anti-war editorial cartoon by IWW artist
• Woman Suffrage movements in England and America
• Studies in Expression: When women are jurors, 1902
• A poem from Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times,by Alice Duer Miller, published in 1915,
Fashion in 1910
• L: McCall’s Magazine, August 1910, R: Warner’s Ad, 1910
JC Leyendecker & Men’s Fashion
• Charles Dana Gibson, The Greatest Game in the World: His Move,
• No time for politics, 1910
The Home or Street Corner for Woman? Vote No on Woman Suffrage." Tom Fleming, 1915
“The Christy Girl” (Howard Chandler Christy)
Christy, Good Housekeeping, 1912-13
• Herber Spencer, Social Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest
Nine European Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII in May of 1910, WH Downey
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Countess Sophie Chote, moments before assassination
A Bosnian Serb nationalist (possibly Gavrilo Princip, more likely bystander Ferdinand Behr), is captured by police and taken to the police station in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914
• Assassination illustrated in Domenica del Corriere, Milan, 12 July 1914
• Fred Spear, artist, Enlist, 1915-16
• Herber Spencer, Social Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest