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A small-scale triumph of using my research and history chops to pin a date on something...
On the left is an item I got in today, which was represented to me as a printing plate for an editorial cartoon by Bruce Russell, who was the longtime editorial cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, back in the day when it gave the Chicago Tribune a hard run for its money as an arch-conservative newspaper. The plate is clearly steel, and in spite of being thin has a heft to it. On the back there was this notation: "Memo for the Keynote 6-8."
Putting the plate up to the mirror (to read it the right way) confirmed Russell's signature, and what clearly looks to be a kind of platform with early-ish model radio microphones. A quick check showed that the Republican National Convention in 1936 opened on June 9 (in Cleveland). In other words, the day after the date scrawled on the back of the plate.
A quick check of newspapers.com for the June 8, 1936 issue of the Times, and, hey presto! There's the finished product. Again, as with the Hungerford plate I showed the other day, you can see how parts of the plate are cut out to produce the blank, white spaces. I do think the artwork for this cartoon is very strong -- Russell (who a decade later would win the Pulitzer) was a very good draughtsman.
On the left is an item I got in today, which was represented to me as a printing plate for an editorial cartoon by Bruce Russell, who was the longtime editorial cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, back in the day when it gave the Chicago Tribune a hard run for its money as an arch-conservative newspaper. The plate is clearly steel, and in spite of being thin has a heft to it. On the back there was this notation: "Memo for the Keynote 6-8."
Putting the plate up to the mirror (to read it the right way) confirmed Russell's signature, and what clearly looks to be a kind of platform with early-ish model radio microphones. A quick check showed that the Republican National Convention in 1936 opened on June 9 (in Cleveland). In other words, the day after the date scrawled on the back of the plate.
A quick check of newspapers.com for the June 8, 1936 issue of the Times, and, hey presto! There's the finished product. Again, as with the Hungerford plate I showed the other day, you can see how parts of the plate are cut out to produce the blank, white spaces. I do think the artwork for this cartoon is very strong -- Russell (who a decade later would win the Pulitzer) was a very good draughtsman.
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