Editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, 1886 to 1952
Warning
The language, images, and ideas presented in The Bulletin were often racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist. You won't have to look far within this collection to find something offensive. This was, after all, the journal whose slogan for many years was 'Australia for the white man'.
This dataset includes a collection of 3,471 full-page editorial cartoons downloaded from issues of The Bulletin published between 1886 and 1952. In most cases there is one cartoon per issue. Metadata describing each image is available in a CSV-fromatted file, and in an SQLite database that can be explored using Datasette-Lite. The full collection of high-resolution images can be downloaded as a single 62gb zip file.
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Files¶
bulletin-editorial-cartoons.csv¶
| date harvested | 2024-03-19 |
| format | text/csv |
| file size | 1.9 MB |
| number of rows | 3,472 |
Columns¶
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
id |
string | NLA identifier for the page image containing the cartoon |
date |
date | date the issue was published |
issue_number |
string | publication issue number |
issue_id |
string | NLA identifier for the issue |
page |
integer | number of the page containing the cartoon |
url |
string | url to open the page in Trove's digitised object viewer |
download_image |
string | url to download a high-resolution page image |
text |
string | OCRd text extracted from the page |
bulletin-editorial-cartoons.db¶
| date harvested | 2024-03-19 |
| format | db |
| file size | 3.5 MB |
This is an SQLite database formatted for use with Datasette-Lite. As well as metadata from the bulletin-editorial-cartoons.csv file it includes a thumbnail column to display the cartoon.
bulletin_cartoons.zip¶
| date harvested | 2024-03-14 |
| format | application/zip |
| file size | 62.3 GB |
This dataset contains high-resolution images of 3,471 full-page editorial cartoons harvested from The Bulletin, 1886 to 1952.
The names of each image file provide useful contextual metadata. For example, the file name 19330412-2774-nla.obj-606969767-7.jpg tells you:
19330412– the cartoon was published on 12 April 19332774– it was published in issue number 2774nla.obj-606969767– the Trove identifier for the issue, can be used to make a url eghttps://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-6069697677– on page 7
Context of creation¶
| date harvested | 2024-03-19 |
| notebook | Finding editorial cartoons in the Bulletin |
Examples of use¶
Getting help¶
Cite as¶
Sherratt, Tim. (2024). GLAM-Workbench/trove-journals (version v2.2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13744407
