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People are frequently comparing the current economic crisis to the Great Depression of the s. Accordingly, I thought I might begin my promised posts on vintage graphics with a look at that gloomy period. Specifically, I will be showcasing cartoons published in the American humor magazine Life, before it went under in That research is the source of the illustrations for this series.

While the stock market crash of October did not cause the Great Depression, the collapse on Wall Street certainly ushered it in. With the extent of the gathering calamity not yet apparent, however, early cartoons naturally tended to focus on the crash itself.

In the speculative fever of the roaring twenties, many people had made their stock investments with borrowed money. When stocks fell and creditors called in the loans, the results were ruinous.

In fact, stocks still had a long way to fall before they would finally bottom out in It sums up how many stock investors felt about the year and may feel today about It plays on the popular mythology of the time, according to which bankrupt stockholders were throwing themselves from the windows of New York skyscrapers in droves. Indeed, a number of the early cartoons focused wrily on the fate of previously well-to-do investors, now fallen on hard times.

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The drawing below by Ed Graham appeared on December 6, As the Depression worsened, vast numbers of unemployed men would adopt the expedient of hopping freight trains in search of work. Relatively few, admittedly, were former shareholders. The ruin of the rich but apparently still privileged is also the theme of this unsigned cartoon from December 20, As we shall see in posts to come!

I am working on a book about the next financial crisis and would like to include a few cartoons. What is the copyright obligations with these illustrations? Thought for the day?

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