• Title
  Selection of cartoon drawings from Smith's Weekly, ca. 1930-1950
• Call number
  PXD 840
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1930-1950
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Textual Records
• Reference code
  404591
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 21 ink, watercolour & crayon drawings - 48 x 76 cm. or smaller
  Textual Records
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The donor's husband worked as a reporter on 'Smith's Weekly' -- information from file, ML 1443/99
• Scope and Content
  1. 'Enlist here join the Navy' / Begg
  2. 'It's my wife, nurse - she doesn't like me being alone with strange women' / Jean Cullen
  3. '-and the judges have called for a photo' / Les Dixon
  4. 'Caution curve. I told you so!' / John Endean
  5.' Tell them to repeat the last couple of words' / John Endean
  6. 'Could I talk to you a moment, there's something I want to get off my chest' / John Endean
  7. 'One day John Bugsby, you'll carry your silly suspicions too far' / M. Horseman
  8. 'New hand - Get back to bed, sir, you're walking in your sleep' / J. Jonsson
  9. 'There's no need for me to go home early, my husband doesn't eat breakfast' / Lahm
  10. 'Look, Jim can you do this?' / Emile Mercier
  11. 'All men are the same to me. It's a wonder your husband stands it' / Morrison
  12. 'Boss: business is bad but I suppose a man can't have everything' / Quinlan '34
  13. 'You should consider yourself lucky - Mr Hallstrom would have given my 75 for it' / Norm Rice
  14. 'Oh no! We couldn't give you four years to pay - Why the furniture won't last that long!' / Norm Rice
  15. 'Hullo, Rhubarb! What are you doing these days?...' / Jim Russell
  16. 'Bet you ten bob the bosses' new secretary gets the bullet this week' / Albert Smith
  17. 'Jus' put yerself in my shoes, lady, an' yer won't 'ave a care in the world' / Unk White
  18. 'Hey! Who th'ell yer shovin'' / Unk White
  19. 'Now then, that's just wher you put your foot in it' / Unk White
  20. 'Maisie, I insist you take this! Remember what happened last time you went for a car ride!' / [Callett? / Hallett?]
  21. [Caricature of 'Mo']
  22-24. 'Syb! If you and me had boyfriends...' / [untitled artist, possibly Morrison?]
  Plus two copies of 'Smith's Weekly' (final edition), 28 October 1950, signed by cartoonists who worked on the newspaper. Includes signatures of artists featured in this collection
• System of arrangement
  Alphabetical by name of artist
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Cartoons captioned and signed by artist
  Autographs on front page of 'Smith's Weekly'
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Begg, Bruce
  Cullen, Jean
  Dixon, Les
  Endean, John
  Horseman, Mollie, 1911-1974
  Jonsson, Josef, 1890-1963
  Lahm, Hartmut, 1912-1981
  Mercier, Emile, 1901-1981
  Morrison, Joan, 1911-1969
  Quinlan, Hal
  Rice, Norm
  Russell, Jim, 1909-2001
  Smith, Albert
  White, Unk, 1900-1986
  
• Name
  Rene, Roy, 1892-1954
  Smith's Weekly
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  caricatures
  cartoonists
  cartoons
  signatures
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Century of Satire
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20525259

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