by Richard D. Olson
One of America's first great pictorial magazines was the Burr McIntosh Monthly. The first issue was published April, 1903, and it appeared monthly until the last of the 86 issues was published May, 1910.
The magazine was primarily a collection of photographs bound by a ribbon strung through two holes near the spine so the page could be removed and framed. Its original published size was about 6 1/4" wide x 12" tall. In August, 1907 (issue #53), the magazine was changed to a larger format, about 7 1/4" wide x 12 1/4" tall. In January, 1910 (issue #82), the size was changed for the final five issues to 7" wide x 10" tall with a content that emphasized text rather than photography.
The Burr McIntosh Monthly featured the arts, but also included a variety of other themes such as sports and travel. One issue featured a cover by Alphonse Mucha, several issues carried early Coke ads, and nearly every issue had something that really captured my interest.
However, the reason I recently obtained a beautiful set of this magazine is because the work of R. F. Outcault appeared in several of the issues in a variety of formats ranging from full-page plates to small sketches accompanying text to ads for the legendary Buster Brown and His Bubble collection of prints as well as numerous other pieces of his art.
This issue of The R. F. Outcault Reader is providing a listing of all R. F. Outcault art in the magazine followed by a few representative illustrations, which are dated and may be identified in Table 1. Full page illustrations are capitalized in Table 1.
Table 1: R. F. Outcault References in the Burr McIntosh Monthly
## | mm | yyyy | Description |
02 |
05 | 1903 | DICKEY OUTCAULT'S OPINION |
03 | 06 | 1903 | four small signed sketches to accompany another writer's text |
04 | 08 | 1903 | RICHARD F. OUTCAULT, photograph with mini-biography ad, three Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
06 | 09 | 1903 | three small sketches to accompany poem ad, three Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
07 | 10 | 1903 | R. F. OUTCAULT'S GOLF GIRL |
08 | 11 | 1903 | R. F. OUTCAULT'S HORSE SHOW GIRL R. F. OUTCAULT'S FOOTBALL GIRL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM 1903 ad, ten Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
09 | 12 | 1903 | MRS. THOMAS BROWN AND HER SON BUSTER THE JUGGLER ad, ten Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
10 | 01 | 1904 | HAVING FUN IN THE WHITE HOUSE YARD |
11 | 02 | 1904 | R. F. OUTCAULT'S LEAP YEAR GIRL |
12 | 03 | 1904 | R. F. OUTCAULT'S AUTOMOBILE GIRL ad, ten Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
13 | 04 | 1904 | six small sketches to accompany another writer's text |
15 | 06 | 1904 | ad, ten Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
24 | 03 | 1905 | ad, ten Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
25 | 04 | 1905 | ad, ten Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
31 | 10 | 1905 | ad, Buster Brown Stockings |
59 | 02 | 1908 | ad, ten Buster Brown and His Bubble cartoons |
72 | 03 | 1909 | ad, THE JUGGLER print |
73 | 04 | 1909 | ad, THE GOLF GIRL print |
74 | 05 | 1909 | WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? print |
75 | 06 | 1909 | WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? print |
76 | 06 | 1909 | I'M JUST BARELY LIVIN' print |
77 | 09 | 1909 | I'M JUST BARELY LIVIN' print |
79 | 10 | 1909 | I'M JUST BARELY LIVIN' print |
80 | 11 | 1909 | FOOTBALL GIRL print |
82 | 01 | 1910 | 82 01 1910 ad, FOOTBALL GIRL print |
83 | 02 | 1910 | 83 02 1910 ad, WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? print |
84 | 03 | 1910 | 84 03 1910 ad, WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? print (horizontal display) ad, WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? print (vertical display) ad, FOOTBALL GIRL print |
86 | 05 | 1910 | 86 05 1910 ad, WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? print ad, FOOTBALL GIRL print |
Note: The Buster Brown and His Bubble set of postcards was also published as a portfolio of ten prints with image sizes of 9" x 11 ½" using the same black, red, green, and yellow colors used on the postcards; the portfolio was bound was a large ribbon just as the monthly magazines were bound.. These large prints are very striking and extremely rare. A few single prints, some imprinted with the name of a local automobile dealer, are in the hands of collectors. At this time, I only know of one original collection of the bound portfolio; it is in NM/M condition and very beautiful.
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