Diner Club Card Cartoon, Number 467-821
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
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 depicts a man checking in at the airport. Dressed in a suit with a bow tie, a hat, and a walking stick, the client stands on one side of the desk. One of his suitcases is on the ground and another sits on the platform between himself and the airline staff. The staff person holds the client’s credit card as he reads the number aloud. A caption, handwritten in pencil, says “Number 467–821. Right, sir.” This is the first 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.75.55.17
label: catalog number
content: 75.55.17
label: accession number
content: 320774
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cartoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (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