About this image...

Image Title: Thumbs Down!, 1911

Creator: Crawford, Will, 1869-1944, artist

Date: 1911 June 7.

Summary: Illustration shows a skeleton labeled "Death" as a gladiator standing over a "Sick Person"; before giving the death stroke, the skeleton looks to the spectators seated in a section identified as "Anti-Vivisectionists", who, holding their pets close, give the "thumbs down" signal. The emblem on their banner shows a hand about to snuff the flame on a lamp labeled "Progress".

Subjects: Activists--1910-1920
Animal experimentation--1910-1920
Death--1910-1920
Fighting--1910-1920
Gladiators--1910-1920
Pets--1910-1920
Public opinion--1910-1920
Science--1910-1920
Sick persons--1910-1920
Spectators--1910-1920
Vivisection--1910-1920

Original Media: Photomechanical print

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