ROOSEVELT, JACK JOHNSON, HONEY FITZ BOSTON C. 1910 CARTOON PRINT.
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Winning Bid:
$390.70
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
13x16.5" on thick stock. Features four cartoon panels. Some faint scattered age spotting, most notably along bottom left edge. Otherwise only light handling and edge wear. Extremely Fine. An interesting grouping of cartoon panels highlighting current events in sports and politics in 1910.
First panel has an angry TR chasing Taft w/a big stick, as Taft runs away towards the White House. Following Roosevelt's return from Africa in 1910, the former president and his hand-picked successor had a falling out, ultimately culminating in the 1912 election in which Roosevelt formed his own party in opposition to Taft's Republican Party. Second panel features Massachusetts Governor Draper and Boston Mayor "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (JFK's grandfather) fretting at the state capitol and city hall, respectively, as a large man to their right looks on and laughs. The third panel has a mustached man "Wickersham" clubbing the large man. This is a reference to the Ballinger-Pinchot Affair with the Alaska trust buster, James Wickersham. The final panel once again features the laughing man on the right, w/scene of boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries left of the city of San Francisco. This is a reference to the boxing match between Johnson and Jeffries originally planned for San Francisco, but they were forcefully moved out of the city ultimately landing in Reno after Governor Gillett of CA forced a change of venue.
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