Image: PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids

Description: Editorial cartoon by Leon Barritt, 1898. Newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, full-length, dressed as the Yellow Kid (a popular cartoon character of the day), each pushing against opposite sides of a pillar of wooden blocks that spells WAR. This is a satire of the Pulitzer and Hearst newspapers' role in drumming up USA public opinion to go to war with Spain.
Title: PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids
Credit: Cartoon by Leon Barritt, first published in "Vim", v. 1, no. 2, 29 June 1898. Via Library of Congress website [1]. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsc 02832 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.02832 (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03800 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03800 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a34758 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a34758 CONTROL #: 95508199
Author: Leon Barritt
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