DC -- Washington Post (1100 15th St NW -- Old Bldg) -- Interior:
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- Description of Pictures: Including the Herblock cartoons in their lobby.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- WPI_081122_03.JPG: The Art of an Editorial Cartoonist:
Herbert Block, who celebrated more than 55 years at The Washington Post from 1946 to 2001, was recognized around the world as the foremost American political cartoonist of his time. "The political cartoon is not a news story and not an oil portrait," he explained, but is "essentially a means for poking fun, for punctuating pomposity and for offering criticism." With searing incisiveness, brilliant humor and relentless passion for his craft, Herblock sized up history by pen-pointing the players and events with stunning insight and impact.
In these iconic examples of his work, Herblock showed why his unique commentary was as lasting as his wit and his magic ability to clarify. Woven always into the ridicule and caricature was Herblock's unwavering belief in freedom, democracy, fairness and honest public service.
Herblock believed the political cartoon should have a view to express "some purpose beyond the chuckle." His editorial page cartoon in The Post reflected his personal opinion, like a column or other signed article. It was his primary medium, but as top writers of opinion discovered and admired, Herbert Block was also a master wordsmith -- author of twelve books that underscored his standing as a leading historian of his day.
While words and pictures are different forms of commentary, Herb would note, the test of each "is whether it gets at the essential truth." And there was never a shortage of subjects:
"If the time should come when political figures and all the rest of us sprout angel wings, there will still be differing views about the best way to flap wings -- or about the value of detergents guaranteed to wash those wings whiter than ever. And there will still be something funny about a halo that's worn a little askew.
"When that happy heaven-on-earth day comes I'd still like to be drawing cartoons. I don't want to see any head angel throwing his weight around."
-- Robert L. Asher and Jean Rickard
- WPI_081122_05.JPG: "Follow that car -- and that one -- and that one --"
- WPI_081122_08.JPG: "New figure on the American scene."
- WPI_081122_11.JPG: "New Hand in the News Room"
- WPI_081122_34.JPG: Linotype Model 31
Line-casting Machine
The linotype was introduced in Baltimore in 1883 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German-born inventor, by replacing hand-set type with machine -set type, the speed of composition was vastly increased by this most important advance in printing.
This machine saw more than a half century's service molding lines of type from molten metal in the Washington Post's composing room. It is representative of the very heart of the "hot type" newspaper production process which was used at the Post from 1888 until 1980.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
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