Monday, September 04, 2006

Life Drawing Sunday X: Labor Day

Though Labor Day became a national holiday in 1887, just four years after Life began, I couldn't find any cartoons that refer to the holiday specifically. But these drawings (and two text pieces) from the teens into the twenties all comment on labor (or capital) and run the gamut from being fairly supportive of labor (in one case mawkishly so) to being kinda freaked out by it.


Art Young, April 27, 1911


Warren Rockwell, April 27, 1911


Herbert Johnson, April 27, 1911


April 27, 1911


Ben Cohen, February 29, 1912


John Conacher, April 27, 1911



Herbert Johnson, April 27, 1911


uncertain, April 27, 1911


February 29, 1912


B.H. Sanders, April 27, 1911


Art Young, April 27, 1911


W. O. Wilson, October 1, 1914


Paul C. Stahr, December 14, 1916


Ellison Hoover, December 14, 1916


W. O. Wilson, November 25, 1920


F. M. Follett, January 8, 1920


Paul Reilly, January 29, 1920


Al Merrick, March 8, 1917


undecipherable signature guy, February 12, 1920


T. S. Sullivant, May 6, 1920


F. T. Richards, May 6, 1920


Louis Raemaekers, June 17, 1920


Paul Reilly, March 4, 1920


F. T. Richards, October 21, 1920


Angus MacDonall, October 21, 1920


Farr, March 13, 1924


G. B. Inwood, March 13, 1924


Garrett Price, February 9, 1928