The junkman is a useless cog in the machine
Date1916
Artist
Kerr Eby
(Canadian painter, printmaker, 1890–1946)
Illustration Citation"Pin Money in Waste," by Daniel Leigh, in The Delineator, March 1917
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionssheet: 8 13/16 × 8 in. (22.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-13
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis illustration was done early in Ker Eby's career, before his etchings of front line experience of World War I brought him his initial fame. The article here describes how American women can earn "pin money" and support the economy by saving old paper and rags, which they can then sell to paper mills to supplant the imported raw materials cut off by the war in Europe. Eby's modern-looking woman is declining to sell her refuse to the old-fashioned and bedraggled junkman, who looks at her with surpise.
