PopKulture's photos with the keyword: 1906

“An Entire City Populated by Midgets.” Well, this is sure to be a losing entrant in the PCPC (Political Correctness Postcard Contest), but it is mesmerizing nevertheless. And what were the little people of the day to do? At least here they earned a wage and gained the acceptance of peers if not the adulation of the teeming White City* crowds. Postmarked Aug. 7, 1906. * White City was an amusement park on the South Side of Chicago.

Patriotism and nationalism were still rampant in America in 1906, and a hallmark of many magazines of the day, as evidenced by this proud eagle spreading her wings on the July cover of The Strand Magazine. Cover by Chas. J. Sindelar.

Antique bill of sale from Hanley-Ruddell, a Terre Haute, Indiana manufacturer of "anything canvas," including tents, awnings, and wagon covers. Sold one awning to D. D. Doll of Marshall, Illinois, 1906.

Antique Buster Brown Sunday funnies page from 1906. Art by Richard Felton Outcault.

Antique Buster Brown Sunday funnies page from April 22, 1910, as it appeared in the Chicago Sunday American. Art by Richard Felton Outcault.

Antique Sunday funnies page from July 15, 1906, featuring The Katzenjammer Kids by Rudolph Dirks, as it appeared in The Chicago American and Examiner.