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The World in 1910 As seen in visual culture

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Visual culture and related ideas just before WWI. War photography, newspapers, Christy Girls, Gibson Girls, the Arrow Shirt Collar Man

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The World in 1910As seen in visual culture

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American Politics

• The Frontier is “closed” as of 1893

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America is a global power

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Spanish American War

• Newspaper coverage• Yellow Journalism

• ““You furnish the pictures, I’ll provide the war!”— William R. Hearst

• The Yellow Kid, Hogan’s Alley

• Halftone Printing Process (invented in 1873)

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Shooting Captured Insurgents", reenactment probably filmed in New Jersey. Edison films catalog description: A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking picture.

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• Wreckage of the Maine

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Halftone printing

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• Spanish American War 1898 establishes US prominence in the world (the “Rough Riders” are volunteer army)

• “A splendid little war”

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• rough riders archival footage

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Thomas Edison, troops marching (Spanish American war)

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After the Spanish American War

• Labor Unions• Non-interventionism• Suffrage & men’s & women’s roles• Woodrow Wilson’s promise to keep US out of WWI• German subs at US shores?• Lusitantia

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Unions & Labor

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John Sloan cartoon for Woman’s Journal, April 1911

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• George Bellows, Blessed are the Peacemakers, The Masses, 1917

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• Cartoon from the New York Globe during World War I, trying to portray anti-war Wobblies (IWW) as linked to the German Kaiser

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• Anti-war editorial cartoon by IWW artist

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• Woman Suffrage movements in England and America

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• Studies in Expression: When women are jurors, 1902

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• A poem from Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times,by Alice Duer Miller, published in 1915,

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Fashion in 1910

• L: McCall’s Magazine, August 1910, R: Warner’s Ad, 1910

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JC Leyendecker & Men’s Fashion

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• Charles Dana Gibson, The Greatest Game in the World: His Move,

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• No time for politics, 1910

The Home or Street Corner for Woman? Vote No on Woman Suffrage." Tom Fleming, 1915

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“The Christy Girl” (Howard Chandler Christy)

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Christy, Good Housekeeping, 1912-13

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• Herber Spencer, Social Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest

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Nine European Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII in May of 1910, WH Downey

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• Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Countess Sophie Chote, moments before assassination

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A Bosnian Serb nationalist (possibly Gavrilo Princip, more likely bystander Ferdinand Behr), is captured by police and taken to the police station in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914

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• Assassination illustrated in Domenica del Corriere, Milan, 12 July 1914

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• Fred Spear, artist, Enlist, 1915-16

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• Herber Spencer, Social Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest

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