The New Yorker Vol. 1 No.1 – The Drawings
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The first issue of The New Yorker was cover dated February 21, 1925.
But as we all know periodicals are on the newsstands, and newsstands were prolific in 1925 unlike today, several days, sometimes even weeks, before the date printed on magazine covers.
From Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee:
[T]he first issue carried Saturday’s date, February 21 [1925], but probably hit newsstands on Tuesday the seventeenth, certainly no later than Thursday the nineteenth.
So, to beat the coming onslaught of articles that is sure to be ubiquitous on February 21, The Daily Cartoonist is celebrating the centennial anniversary of The New Yorker 100 years after it was first offered to the public.
The New Yorker was more than drawings but that will be our focus as we reproduce the art of that first issue.
The first issue of The New Yorker was 36 pages counting the front and back and inside covers.
Hat tip to Michael Maslin for help in identifying some of the cartoonists.
The February 21, 1925 issue of The New Yorker is public domain and can be read at Wikipedia Commons.
Check in regularly at The New Yorker for their Centennial Celebrations
and with Michael Maslin for notices of others observing the anniversary.
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