Oliver O'Hanlon · @OOH99
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'Going to the dogs' -US view of Europe 100 yrs ago

Europe giving its resources to its armies while people starve + live in ruins -this was a persistent narrative that appeared in many US newspaper cartoons around this time 100 yrs ago

Source: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lcc

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Oliver O'Hanlon · @OOH99
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100 years ago today - France collecting war reparations from Germany was all the news (as we see from this American newspaper cartoon)

Source: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lcc

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Oliver O'Hanlon · @OOH99
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New Year 100 Years Ago - French and American newspaper cartoons marking the end of 1922 and the beginning of 1923.

More here: oliverohanlon.blogspot.com/202

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Oliver O'Hanlon · @OOH99
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1922 New Year's wishes - cartoon in French newspaper 1922

1922 (old woman in rags, left) says to 1923 (young child, right): 'careful you don't end up in rags with an empty basket'...

Source: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6 @GallicaBnF

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Oliver O'Hanlon · @OOH99
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A cartoon from a Vermont newspaper on this day in 1922 highlighting different reactions from young and old to the fact that Christmas is only 12 days away!

Source: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lcc

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Oliver O'Hanlon · @OOH99
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'You wretch!... my new suit!...'

- cries the pedestrian crushed by a taxi in this French newspaper cartoon from 6 Dec 1922.

Source: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6

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