[William Randolph Hearst, full-length portrait, facing front, seated with legs crossed, left shoe labeled "The Examiner" and right shoe labeled "The Journal", with a copy of the "The Examiner" extending from the right pocket of his coat and a copy of "The Journal" extending from the left pocket] / Davenport, New York '96.

William Randolph Hearst took charge of his father's paper, the San Francisco Examiner in 1886 when he was 23. In 1895, he acquired the New York Morning Journal. Hearst was instrumental in the development of what became known as "yellow journalism," and these two papers were the beginnings of what became a media empire. Homer Davenport cartooned for the Examiner and then joined Hearst in New York, where he helped popularize the Journal through a series of cartoons viciously attacking the city leaders and members of the Republican Party.

Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
Unprocessed in WOOD.Davenport