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Colorful multi-panel cartoon print showing historical inventions met with skepticism, from a log boat to an airplane.

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‘T was ever thus, Louis Glackens (1910). Via artnap.com

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Why is this public domain? Louis Glackens died in 1933; this work is in the public domain.

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A multi-panel comic print in color showing a sequence of cartoon vignettes that trace human reactions to new inventions, from a hollow log boat and a sailboat to skates, the balloon, the velocipede, the automobile, the airplane, and the elevator. The panels are arranged across a wide sheet with captions beneath many scenes, and a signature appears at the lower center.