Collection Highlights
Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C.
ca. 1797
1907.32
oil on linen, lined to fiberglass
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Comic book
Object name
Comic book
Date
1897
Medium
Paper
Dimensions
10 3/8 x 7 x 1/4 in.
Description
This comic book features Outcault's Yellow Kid. The cover reads "Vol.I. No.2. Price 5 Cents/ TheYellow Kid/ R.F. Outcault By Permission of / The N.Y. Journal." The Yellow Kid stands in a fancy sitting room smoking a cigar with a devil's head peering through a window. His gown reads "Gee Dat Must Be My Conscience Coming Back". On the reverse is an advertisment for the N.Y. Sunday Journal.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.1357