{"id":1669,"date":"2011-12-30T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:54:58","slug":"old-baby-new-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/12\/30\/old-baby-new-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Baby New Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

With almost 14,000 historic editorial cartoons in Iowa Digital Library, we have no shortage of Baby New Years, a figure commonly seen in newspapers around this time of year. Early samples below of older, fully-clothed children show the symbol still in flux, but by the 1930s it had solidified into the top-hat-and-diaper-clad infant we’re familiar with today.<\/p>\n

View more New Year cartoons from the Des Moines Register Cartoonists digital collection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Detail from "Well, here I am!" 1903 | Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail from "The new delivery boy," 1914 | Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail from "Here's wishing everyone a happy New Year," 1931 | Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail from "A tip to a stranger in town," 1935 | Editorial Cartoons of Harold "Tom" Carlisle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail from "You're lucky. You missed Phase I," 1972 | Editorial Cartoons of Frank Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail from "Yeltsin," 1991 | Editorial Cartoons of Brian Duffy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With almost 14,000 historic editorial cartoons in Iowa Digital Library, we have no shortage of Baby New Years, a figure commonly seen in newspapers around this time of year. Early samples below of older, fully-clothed children show the symbol still in flux, but by the 1930s it had solidified into the top-hat-and-diaper-clad infant we’re familiarContinue reading “Old Baby New Years”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}