The Washington Star
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The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981. The Sunday edit
A young boy sells The Evening Star to a man in 1917; the headline, published as the U.S. was entering World War I, reads: "U.S. at War with Germany"
The Evening Star Building at 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C., now part of the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site
Clifford K. Berryman
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Clifford Kennedy Berryman was a Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist with The Washington Star newspaper from 1907 to 1949. He was previously a cartoonist for The Washington Post from 1891 to 1907.
The Washington Star
…The Washington Star was a newspaper of record for Washington, D.C. It provided a longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory (1918–2004) and to cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman (1869–1949). On August 7, 1981, after 128 years, The Washington Star ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy. In the bankruptcy sale, The Washington…
Berryman in an early 20th century Harris & Ewing photo
Berryman's 1902 political cartoon in The Washington Post spawned the teddy bear.
"But Where Is the Boat Going?", a political cartoon that earned Berryman the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
A signed 1904 photo President Theodore Roosevelt sent to Berryman