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Start Over Collection Helen E. Hokinson Cartoons for The New Yorker, 1926-1949

4. A taxi in Paris—and what happens after you get one. Box 11, Folder 247

A sequence of ten panel drawings. Black ink and gray wash over pencil, the drawings, various sizes, together on a sheet 20 x 13 1/2". Title written in pencil above drawings 1 and 2, captions written in pencil at foot of each drawing. A2296 written in pencil on verso.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Helen E. Hokinson Cartoons for The New Yorker, 1926-1949
  3. Portfolio 5

4. "It's the same lecture, but for twenty dollars more he wears a leopard skin.", 1932-1932 Box 1, Folder 4

Black ink and gray wash over pencil, 11 3/4 x 14 3/4". Caption written in pencil at foot of drawing over a previously erased caption with different wording. A8906 written in pencil on verso, portion of the 6 cut away. Date 1/16/32 written in pencil on verso.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Helen E. Hokinson Cartoons for The New Yorker, 1926-1949
  3. Portfolio 1

4. Very likely a gentleman will say to you some evening—"I wonder how you'd look with you hair long." Box 2, Folder 17

A sequence of six panel drawings, black ink and gray wash over pencil, the drawings 4 1/2 x 5" and 4 1/2 x 6", together mounted on a 16 1/2 x 11 1/4" sheet. Captions written in black ink at foot of each drawing.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Helen E. Hokinson Cartoons for The New Yorker, 1926-1949
  3. Portfolio 2

50. "I represent sixteen shareholders who are madder than wet hens!" or…"who are just as mad as we can be." Box 13, Folder 295

Pencil, 14 x 22 7/8", rough sketch, unsigned. Caption written in pencil at foot of drawing over previously erased partially visible caption, with notation—stockholders meeting at left. Typed note: "Dear Miss Hokinson" These two were turned down as I told you yesterday. JG", 5 x 8", attached to drawing.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Helen E. Hokinson Cartoons for The New Yorker, 1926-1949
  3. Portfolio 6