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| From The St. Louis Republic. (St. Louis, Mo.), 29 Mar 1903, unpaged [image 68]; digital image, Chronicling America: Library of Congress (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1903-03-29/ed-1/seq-68/) : accessed 21 Apr 2018. |
I started out today intending to post about paper dolls in advertising in the 1800s/1900s. I have long been aware of their existence, as I collected paper dolls as a child and had a Dover publication on that topic. When I looked up "paper doll" this morning in Chronicling America it confirmed my suspicion that newspapers also occasionally printed paper dolls to interest the younger readers, as the above graphic shows.
But I was derailed from today's topic by the ludicrous and totally random comic below the paper doll:
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| Let's just say that title would not be allowed today. |
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| The quality is so bad on this image, but it looks like they ended up dismembering him?? |
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Its a great example of how the word "gay" changed meaning after the 1960's Gay Street in New York. My late mother complained that she could no longer use the word gay, which she liked, having been born in 1906. She could find something to complain about everywhere, of course. Old comics are a gold mine of vernacular history, full of racial stereotypes, etc.
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