Rusty Bertrand on Nostr: Can anyone read 1920s #Icelandic handwriting? This is written on the back of a ...
Can anyone read 1920s #Icelandic handwriting?
This is written on the back of a #PoliticalCartoon that artists would hand to people wherever newspapers were sold.
The papers wouldn't print the cartoons, so the cartoonists made the art in advance, depicting the politics of the time, so when you bought the paper, you wanted the pictures, the jokes, the political cartoons.
It worked, the postcards, a loophole, were bought up as fast as the #newspapers
I don't know anything else about it. #Iceland
More pics, so, a thread...
This is written on the back of a #PoliticalCartoon that artists would hand to people wherever newspapers were sold.
The papers wouldn't print the cartoons, so the cartoonists made the art in advance, depicting the politics of the time, so when you bought the paper, you wanted the pictures, the jokes, the political cartoons.
It worked, the postcards, a loophole, were bought up as fast as the #newspapers
I don't know anything else about it. #Iceland
More pics, so, a thread...