This one, by Chester Garde, appeared on January 30, 1931. Oddly Life ran very few cartoons about the banks. This cartoon by Ralph Lane recalls the boom times of 1928 from the bitter perspective of December 1931.īank failures brought the Great Depression home to many middle-class Americans, for in the days before deposit insurance the collapse of the local bank could easily wipe out a family’s life savings. In fact, business conditions continued to deteriorate steadily. It is one of several from the summer and fall of 1931 that suggest people thought the economy might be showing signs of improvement. This cartoon by Robert “Bo” Brown appeared on November 13, 1931. This cartoon by Frank Hanley was published on September 11, 1931. Judging from the style, I suspect it was drawn by G. This unsigned cartoon appeared on February 6, 1931. This one by Ralph Fuller appeared in the same issue.Īnd this one by Ed Graham is from January 16, 1931. Anderson was published on December 12, 1930. Once again, most of these cartoons should be self-explanatory. One frequent focus of Life’s cartoons during the early years of the Great Depression was the dismal state of American business. Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2009, at 10:12 am, by Cadwalader Crabtree. The Great Depression in Cartoons, Part 5:
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