Charles Dana Gibson, Council of National Defense

This is not a cartoon plate but a formal photographic portrait, catalog number 165-WW 135 82, identified in the mount's printed label as Charles Dana Gibson, Council National Defense. Gibson—creator of the iconic 'Gibson Girl' and editor of Life magazine from 1918—served as chairman of the Division of Pictorial Publicity under the Council of National Defense, marshaling American illustrators for the war effort. The photograph shows a bald, heavyset man in a dark suit with white French cuffs, hands clasped, gazing directly at the camera with calm authority. No caption, no caricature, no satirical argument: this is a government administrative record documenting Gibson's wartime civic role, not a work of graphic humor.