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Truth Easter '97

Date1897

Illustration CitationAdvertisement for Truth, April 1897

MediumCommercial lithograph

Dimensionssheet: 20 15/16 × 14 1/16 in. (53.2 × 35.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973

Object number1973-47

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Label TextHenry Mayer immigrated to the US from Germany. He often did illustrations and cartoons referring to the current scene and social themes. In 1913, he turned to animation, and then to a career in the film business (where he was known as Hy Mayer) as a writer, animator, director and producer through the mid-1920s.

Truth magazine began publishing in 1881 as a weekly magazine and changed to a monthly in 1898. Its logo was "The Brightest of Weeklies". Initially a competitor of the society paper Town Topics, it covered the theater, sports, and other entertainment of the leisured class. Editorial changes then turned Truth more toward humor and cartoons before its demise in 1905.