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Pen and ink cartoon drawing by Albert T. Reid. Santa Claus is startled by phonographic "Talking Machine" playing a prerecorded Christmas wish list from a young boy. The cartoon is captioned in pencil above, "A Surprise for Santa Claus. How an enterprising Tommy got a hearing." Albert Reid was born in Concordia, Kansas, in 1873. He worked as a political cartoonist for Arthur Capper in Topeka at the Topeka Mail and Breeze. He also worked for the Kansas City Journal until 1909.
Creator: Reid, Albert Turner
Date: between 1896 and 1910
Item Number: 404813
Call Number: 1960.66.576
KSHS Identifier: 1960.66.576
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Holidays - Christmas
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Picture - Cartoon
People - Notable Kansans - Reid, Albert T.
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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