Photo,Uncle Sam's girl-shower,1918,World War I,WWI,Nell Brinkley,Working Women

Title: [Uncle Sam's girl-shower] / Nell Brinkley.
Creator(s): Brinkley, Nell, 1886-1944, artist
Date Created/Published: [1918]
Summary: World War I drawing shows a shower of lovely girls floating down around Uncle Sam to offer their services for work in Washington. On the side, however, three girls show the problems they are encountering. One sleeps in a chair; one encounters a sign reading 'Apartments, No Dogs, Children or Girls'; and one sleeps against a lamp post. Nell Brinkley's delicate drawings of girls with masses of curly hair made her one of the most widely published illustrators of the early years of the century, but she frequently focused on the problems confronting working women. Girls flocked to Washington during the first World War to support the war effort, but they found a housing shortage and landlords reluctant to rent to them.
Notes:
Title and date from: Nell Brinkley and the new woman in the early 20th century / Trina Robbins. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2001, p. 74.
Portion of drawing published in: Nell Brinkley and the new woman in the early 20th century / Trina Robbins. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2001, p. 74.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
Unprocessed in WOOD.Brinkley.5
Source: Robbins, Nell Brinkley, p. 71-74 ljr
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1910-1920.
Drawings--1910-1920.
Bookmark /2003668547/
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