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Archive: December 2012 (2 Posts)

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Happy New Year, 2013!

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

One hundred years ago, Leighton Budd created this illustration for the January 1, 1913 edition of Puck, the humor and satire magzine. It pictures two fashionable young women stopping by a snowbank so that one of them can record her New Year’s resolutions: “1913 No Jealousy No Anger No Flirt.” Alas, it is unclear whether …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Puck Cartoons: “Launched at Last!”

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

The following is a guest post by Woody Woodis, Cataloging Specialist, Prints & Photographs. Imagine the pleasure of spending your days looking at cartoons created over a century ago. That opportunity landed on my desk in the form of a digitization and cataloging project of over 2,500 color cartoon illustrations published in Puck magazine between …