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Albert Dorne
Albert Dorne’s success as an illustrator, and later as a businessman, is a resounding testament to good old-fashioned hard work and perseverance. Born into the slums of New York’s East Side in 1904, Dorne’s childhood was marred by severe poverty and illness. Overcoming tuberculosis, a heart condition, as well as a thoroughly inadequate education, Albert [...]
John Held Jr.
With unflinching irreverence and caustic wit, John Held Jr.’s pen lampooned the very decadence and superficiality of the Roaring Twenties, that he, in many ways helped manufacture and is so closely associated with. Although brilliant in their satirical evaluation of the Flaming Youth of the 1920′s and early 30′s, Held’s flappers, sheiks and drugstore cowboys constitute only [...]