The following full page illustration ran in the July 3, 1911 issue of the Perth Amboy Evening News. The country was preparing to celebrate the 135th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yesterday, we celebrated the 242nd…
Category: Blasts from the Past!
100 Years Ago: May 21, 1918
On May 21, 2018 the Great War dominated the news. The Perth Amboy Evening News front page contained stories that local contributions for the Red Cross reached the half way mark of their $40,000 goal, America’s first field army (200,000…
Illustrating Through Illustrations
For a time the Perth Amboy Evening News ran editorial cartoons above the fold on page one. These single panel illustrations highlighted central issues of the day. August 1908 offers several interesting examples, as twenty-one editorial cartoons appeared on its…