Description: Wonderful illustrations saved from a damaged issue of Saturday Evening Magazine. They were done by Herbert Johnson, and appeared with the story titled "The American Book of Wonder", by Garet Garrett. This article and illustrations appeared in the January 7, 1928 issue. I could not save the article due to pages missing and damaged. Like noted below in his biography information, these illustrations demonstrate his work in the political and worker movements of that era. The smaller illustration measures 5 3/8" x 8". The larger one measures 9 1/4" x 9 3/8". Reverse sides have parts of unrelated articles or illustrations. I'll place the illustrations inside a acid-free plastic sleeve and add a piece of white foam board for protection while mailing by USPS First Class in a bubble envelope. I'll mail the same day, or next day after PayPal payment is received. More info on Johnson follows: (1878 - 1946) Herbert Johnson worked as a clerk, a stenographer and bookkeeper before becoming a cartoonist with The Saturday Evening Post and The Country Gentleman for 24 years. He shared his employer's conservative political views and supported the Republican Party and its presidents, Warren Harding (1921-1923), Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929), Herbert Hoover (1929-33). In the 1930s Johnson was a harsh critic of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. …Johnson’s first experience in cartooning began with the Denver Republican, and his first “sit” lasted two months. Then he trekked to Chi[ago] looking for a job and later went to Kansas City, where he hooked up with the Journal of that city. Later he returned to Lincoln, Neb., and entered the state university, taking his degree. Then he drifted out to California….“In California I walked over the greater part of the state, working at all sorts of day labor jobs. I worked as a snow shoveler in the Yosemite valley, shoveled dirt, did teaming, wrangled horse, and one time rode 75 miles in one day and 50 the next, driving 21 herd of horses. I rambled through most of the state.“In July I moved on to Lake Tahoe, stayed a short time and then wandered on looking for work. Finally I landed as circulation man on the Arizona Daily Citizen at Tucson. This didn’t last long…as the paper changed hands and I had an opportunity to go back to the Kansas City Journal that fall I decided to move again. I remained there a year as the head of the art and engraving department.“Then I decided to try my fortune in New York, and arrived in that city Jan. 1, 1903. The first week I was there I made five drawings and submitted the batch to Life. When I went back the next morning the office girl told me that one of them had been accepted and that I would receive a check for $45 by mail within a few days. I thought I misunderstood the number of pictures accepted and asked her to repeat it. She replied that one had been accepted. I was dumbfounded. I had an idea that the best I might receive would be about $5. Well, the next week I had some more drawings to submit and sold one for $80. The next week I didn’t sell any, and the week following I sold some more and soon was drawing regularly for that publication.” In 1905 he moved to Philadelphia, going with the North American and later to the Saturday Evening Post [in 1912]… Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter
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Location: Frederick, Maryland
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