A Clean Sweep for the New Year: Exploring a Cartoon from the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore a cartoon, published as the front cover of a magazine in January 1905, that draws on the many metaphors about the New Year offering a clean start. Although many of the specific images in the cartoon may be unfamiliar to students, the labels on them offer a clear starting point for researching the context and the details the artist included.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Lesson Ideas