Author: The Archive

The melting pot, as it looked in 1898.

America muscles out the competition in 1901.

Nobody tell 1906 that we didn’t do any of this.

“The Pocket Telephone: When Will It Ring?”

Women are driving men off the acting stage! What’s next – regular jobs? Voting?!

Patience is a virtue.

It was hard to find a good gift, even in 1905.

“The Chinese Question”

A problem for eastern cities to solve.

For all our pottymouthed friends ‘Old Mr. Profanity Makes A New Year’s Resolution’ by Walter McDougall was first published in the Chicago Record-Herald on December 27, 1903. It’s reproduced here with the assistance of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and is from the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection.