Barbarism and Civilization

Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009, at 9:44 am, by Cadwalader Crabtree.

Although Life’s cartoonists traded freely in offensive ethnic, racial, and religious stereotypes, they could set these aside when necessary to go after bigger game, such as contemporary women’s fashion.

This tartly observed cartoon by “M.C.G.” appeared on December 7, 1899.