BIB_ID
445197
Accession number
MA 23829.7
Creator
Addams, Charles, 1912-1988.
Display Date
Curtis Publishing Company, 1958
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Anonymous gift in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2021.
Description
1 print : b&w relief halftone ; 355 x 279 mm
Notes
Printed at lower right: from the pages of Holiday; at lower left: From the October 1958 issue of Holiday Magazine © 1958 The Curtis Publishing Co.
Central vignette featuring a fraternity scene has a detail covered with a hand drawn shield shaped piece of paper reading "Welcome Alums" and bearing the Greek letters for "Delta Upsilon".
Central vignette featuring a fraternity scene has a detail covered with a hand drawn shield shaped piece of paper reading "Welcome Alums" and bearing the Greek letters for "Delta Upsilon".
345 x 278 mm
Summary
Cartoon shows a large house viewed from the side; vignettes of the house's interior are framed by cut-away portions of the walls, and include a central design showing a room occupied by robed figures and implements of torture, with a group of hooded men bearing a large box holding an alarmed looking man into the room; other vignettes feature two men feasting with a naked female dancer; an older woman bound and gag in a chair and identified as "House Mother"; a gambling den; and an (illicit) distiilery; a man approaches the front door bearing a body in a sack over his shoulder, and a scantily clad woman climbs out of a window on a knotted sheet.
Medium
Black ink on paper.
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