This cartoon shows Susan B. Anthony chasing after President Grover Cleveland in her fight for women's right to vote.
Just a reminder: GGrandfather, Lucius Carrington married Mary Montgomery Barthlomew. The Bartholomew family has more than its share of fascinating people.
Charles Lewis Barthlomew was born 1869 in Charlton, Iowa and worked primarily as a children's books illustrator. He made newspaper strips like 'Cousin Bill' (1909), 'George and his Conscience' (1907), 'Bud Smith, the Boy Who Does Stunts' (1908-1912), 'Alexander the Cat' (1910), and 'Mama's Girl-Daddy's boy". He was the author of several textbooks on cartooning and illustration, and was the dean of the Federal School of Illustration and Cartooning. Do you remember those matchbooks with "Draw Me"...that is the formentioned school, located in Minneapolis, Minn. as a branch of the Bureau of Engraving to train illustrators for both the growing printing industry and the Bureau itself.
For many years "Bart" was active in the management of the art department of the Minneapolis Journal, with front page cartoons on political subjects and current events. The Journal was one of the first papers in the United States to use the daily cartoon feature. Bart's cartoons have been reproduced in every part of America and in England and European countries. Writers have said,"One of the most capable cartoonists in the United States is Mr. Bart of the Minneapolis Journal." and "Mr. Charles L. Bartholomew of the Journal, whose work is signed 'Bart,' has not merely a very ingenious and ready pencil, but he has a remarkable political instinct that makes his drawings to a very unusual extent valuable as elucidating the situation or reenforcing an editorial position or point of view." Bart is credited with ten volumes of current cartoons for the Journal and illustrating six juvenile books by W.A. Frisbie. Note to self:Do a check on these books. He's also written twelve textbooks on illustrating and cartoooning. Bart died in 1949.
He was my 6th cousin 3x removed. That's really a distant relative, but no less interesting.
Awesome!
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