Diner Club Card Cartoon, Number 467-821
date: label: date made
content: 1960-10-2
name: label: maker
content: Key, Ted
notes: label: Description
content: Cartoonist Ted Key drew this six-cartoon series titled “467-821” around 1960. The series depicted cardholder number “467-821” making a verity of lavish expenditures before winding up in prison, warning of the dangers of overspending on credit. The drawing is done with ink brush lines over ink washes and white corrective fluid. These original prints were collected by Alfred Bloomingdale, one of the founders of Diners’ Club. Diners’ Club was one of the first consumer credit cards, heralding a new era of consumer spending.
label: Description
content: This cartoon shows two gentlemen, a customer and a salesman, in the fitting room of a store. The customer, who is examining himself before a mirror, is wearing a new suit that needs alterations. There are large cuffs on the pants and there is a tag on the sleeve of the suit. The salesman drapes a tape measure over his shoulder as he reads the customer’s credit card number aloud—making sure he will be paid for the alterations he is about to begin. This is the fourth drawing in a series of six.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Art - Currency
label: Subject
content: Economics
label: Subject
content: Cartoon Characters
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bloomingdale, Alfred
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.75.55.18
label: catalog number
content: 75.55.18
label: accession number
content: 320774
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cartoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 19 cm x .01 cm; 11 1/32 in x 7 15/32 in x in