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Snuffy Smith comic strip
Object Details
- Description
- This "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" comic strip was published on February 3, 1984. In this panel, which was donated to the museum for its inaugural exhibits, the letter carrier takes the only piece of mail for an address, an advertising flyer, and turns it into a paper airplane, sending the flying flyer into the house.
- Cartoonist Fred Lasswell wrote and drew the strip for almost sixty years, although the strip itself is older than that. Originally created in 1919 by cartoonist Billy DeBeck, it continues to appear in newspapers and is one of the longest-running comic strips in history.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- February 3, 1984
- Object number
- 1993.2045.2
- Artist
- Fred Lasswell
- Type
- Art
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Dimensions
- 13.3 x 34.9 cm (5 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Cold War (1945-1990)
- Record ID
- npm_1993.2045.2
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