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Side-by-side front pages of 1898 newspapers with bold headlines blaming a mine for sinking the USS Maine; left is The World New York newspaper, right is New York Evening Journal newspaper. Illustration by Richard Felton Outcault of the Yellow Kid, a bald child in a yellow nightshirt, on the cover of sheet music titled The Dugan Kid Who Lives in Hogan's Alley. Editorial cartoon by Leon Barritt shows Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst wearing yellow dresses and no shoes, pushing on opposite sides of a pillar of blocks spelling WAR.
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Yellow journalism's heyday
The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba, provided plenty of...
The World (New York, NY)/Newspapers.com, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (sn86071545); Photo composite Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The original “Yellow Kid”
Richard F. Outcault created the character for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World...
The New York Public Library Digital Collection (image no. 1269130)
The Yellow Kids at war
An editorial cartoon by Leon Barritt published in the June 1898 edition of Vim...
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (95508199)
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