Travel Impressions (1914)
Overlooking the fact that WWI had broken out months earlier
Born in Germany, Henry (Hy) Mayer worked as an illustrator in London and Paris before eventually settling in NYC. He was a political cartoonist for the New York Times and then chief cartoonist for Puck.
This vignette cartoon depicting scenes from travel, clockwise from top center ...
A shocked stylish woman confronted by a "U.S. Customs" scarecrow.
A distorted view of Pisa aided by "a wonderful quality of chianti."
A woman sitting on a lonely beach populated with signs for the many different "seas" she has encountered while traveling.
A Dutch woman exchanging her traditional costume for the latest Parisian fashions after the tourists have gone home.
What may be a self-portrait of the artist sending postcards from places around the world, while never leaving home.
Ruins that remind the traveler of construction projects back home.
A composite of images from "one of those hurried tours around the world", compressing sites from many places into a single image/impression
Here’s “The Awakening” one of Hy Mayer’s most powerful political works
The Awakening: Women Fight for the Vote (1915)
The most striking of the "suffrage maps," which played a major role in the successful fight for women's suffrage in the U.S. Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the …
Here’s a more lighthearted work by Mayer
Special Effects (1914)
In 1914, the films were still silent. This vignette cartoon depicting scenes from the making of movies with a focus on how special effects were created. Vignettes clockwise from top: Actors from different historical films dining together Rain from watering can
Title: Travel impressions / Hy Mayer
Names: Henry Mayer, 1868-1954, artist
Created / Published: New York : Published by Puck Publishing Corporation, 295-309 Lafayette Street
Date: August 29, 1914
Library of Congress: LC-DIG-ppmsca-28081
I suppose the song "Over There" could be interpreted as a rallying cry to pack your suitcase not a gun.