Dec 19, 2025
Smart Set, December 1920
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Smart Set, December 1920
Part 2 of redrawing Smart Set magazine covers except I actually locked tf in what happened I blacked out for like almost five hours and woke up with this on my screen
Original under the cut as usual
The November 1920 issue of The Smart Set. Cover artist uncredited.
The magazine was published from March 1900 to June 1930, done in by the stock market crash.
When conceiving his new publication entitled The Smart Set, Colonel William d'Alton Mann wished to include works "by, for and about 'The Four Hundred'," referring to Ward McAllister's claim that there were only 400 fashionable people in New York's upper society. As a so-called "pasha of the Gilded Age," Mann sought to provide sophisticated content that would reinforce the social values of New York's social elite. He sought out writers supposedly "from the ranks of the best society of Europe and America," and he gave his new publication the subtitle "The Magazine of Cleverness." Following a dispute with owner Eltinge Warner over an unprinted article mocking the national grief over President Warren G. Harding's death, Mencken and Nathan departed the publication to create The American Mercury in 1924.
Photo: modjourn.org
source: depop
Henry Clive, Smart Set, January 1920s
Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".
One of the "smart set" (LOC) by The Library of Congress Via Flickr: One of the "smart set" c1906 Jan. 29. 1 photographic print (postcard) : gelatin silver. Notes: Postcard showing cat wearing suit and hat. Title from item. On photo: "Copyright 1906 by the Rotograph Co. N.Y." On photo: B1244. Subjects: Cats--1900-1910. Suits (Clothing)--1900-1910. Animals in human situations--1900-1910. Format: Photographic postcards--1900-1910. Humorous pictures--1900-1910. Gelatin silver prints--1900-1910. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19072 Call Number: LOT 13954, no. 47
Louise Brooks.
From our Bound Periodicals Collection
To be filed under “Wow! I Had No Idea We Had This In The Collection!”
The Smart Set, a literary journal that ran roughly from 1900 to 1930 under a variety of managing editors. From our microfilm collection, Vol.46, May 1915 comes the first American printing of the work of James Joyce: two stories from Dubliners. Nothing else to say but enjoy!