Don't Be A Gloom

Don't Be A Gloom Social Lubricators Button Museum
Category
Advertising
Humorous
Additional Images
Don't Be A Gloom button back Social Lubricators Button Museum
Sub Categories
Cigarettes
Illustrations
Text on Button DON'T BE A GLOOM T.P.
Image Description

Gloomy bearded man stands to the right of black text over yellowed background. 
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
7/8 inch
Year / Decade Made
1910s
Additional Information

Illustrator Thomas E. Powers (1870-1939) is known as the first American to draw a color comic strip for a newspaper, the New York Evening World. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, educated in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked briefly in Chicago, Illinois before moving to New York City in 1894. Gloom is a character from his best-known comic "Joy and Gloom."
Sources

Source: T. E. Powers. (2012, June 14). lambiek.net. Retrieved October 15, 2014, from http://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/powers_te.htm.
Catalog ID AD0396