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This caricature of John Barrymore as Hamlet, by Al Frueh, appeared in the NY World on December 9, 1923.
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This caricature of John Barrymore as Hamlet, by Al Frueh, appeared in the NY World on December 9, 1923.
Photo: Potrzebie blog
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 12,1920
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 28, 1920
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 21, 1920
After World War I, hard coal was in short supply and people got by on soft coal. The trouble with soft coal was that it produced far more smoke than the hard variety. It was around this time that the word “smog” (smoke and fog) came into use.
The cartoon above, by Al Frueh, appeared in the February 27, 1926, issue of The New Yorker.
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