“Finis” ‘sums up how many stock investors felt about the year 1929 (and may feel today about 2008). (For those too young to remember, the machine in the background is an old-fashioned stock ticker, which printed incoming stock quotes on “ticker tape,” as shown in the foreground.) Image from http://www.archelaus-cards.com/retail/archives/20090112.php

#OTD in 1929
(post-crash New Year’s sentiment on Wall Street(
‘Finis.’ Cartoon by William Kemp Starrett from Life, December 27, 1929
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“Just what he wanted,” by William Kemp Starrett, appeared on December 6, 1929, reflecting the false hopes many were then placing in what turned out to be a treacherous bear market rally. In fact, stocks still had a long way to fall before they would finally bottom out in 1932. http://www.archelaus-cards.com/retail/archives/20090112.php

#OTD in 1929
(Depression hopes)
‘Just what he wanted!’
Cartoon by William Kemp Starrett for *Life*, December 6, 1929
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#OTD in 1930
Depression humor
'The food's nothin' extra - but you meet some awful nice people.'
Cartoon by William Kemp Starrett, *Life*, November 28, 1930
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image from http://www.archelaus-cards.com/retail/archives/20090118.php: ‘In this cartoon from August 22, 1930, William Kemp Starrett has other targets as well, but the administration’s empty efforts to stimulate consumption are definitely coming in for a poke.’

#OTD in 1930
Depression humor
(lampooning one of the Hoover Administration’s recommendations)
‘With this depression on, Maria, I s'pose we ought to go out tonight and consume something.'
#cartoonist #WilliamKempStarrett.
*Life*, August 22, 1930
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“Finis” ‘sums up how many stock investors felt about the year 1929 (and may feel today about 2008). (For those too young to remember, the machine in the background is an old-fashioned stock ticker, which printed incoming stock quotes on “ticker tape,” as shown in the foreground.) Image from http://www.archelaus-cards.com/retail/archives/20090112.php

#OTD in 1929
(post-crash New Year’s sentiment on Wall Street(
‘Finis.’ Cartoon by William Kemp Starrett from Life, December 27, 1929
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#GreatDepression #cartoons #cartoonists #WilliamKempStarrett #NewYear #stockmarket #WallStreet #tickertape