The Ray of Hope [editorial cartoon by Edgar F. Schilder]

The Ray of Hope [editorial cartoon by Edgar F. Schilder]

Editorial cartoon by Edgar F. Schilder. A hooded figure of Death, carrying a scythe and labelled "The White Plague" flies over a graveyard. In the distance a sun marked "Red Cross" rises. 

Originally published in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Republished here in Cartoons Magazine, vol. 5, no. 2 (February 1914), p.127.

Schilder, Edgar F. ("Steve")

1914 February

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