The Triumph of the Bear in the Wall Street Arena, 1903

 
Containers:
Box 2, Folder 47
Scope and content:

bound issue from June 24, 1903; Vol LIII, no. 1373. Lithographs address the stock market ["Bear Market" and Wall Street Bull]; social norms and relations between men and women. Lithographs include "The Triumph of the Bear in the Wall Street Arena" (title page; shows a scene in an arena of a bear and a bull fighting as gladiators; above them, a group of sheep are seen pointing and spectating. The bear has one foot on the bull and is about to pierce it with a sword labeled "Raids," a iron shield in his other hand protecting him); "Goggles Have Their Uses" (shows a series of vignettes surrounding a main scene on the right hand side of the page. The main vignette shows a fashionably dressed older, unattractive woman putting on a pair of goggles before she takes a drive in her automobile, groups of young and older men are around her--their faces showing apprehension. The surrounding vignettes show the woman driving and gaining the attention of men around her, her face hidden by the mask. After she reveals the mask, exposing her older and unattractive looks, the men react with horror)

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