Judge — August 19, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical cartoon depicts a window display for "The Old-Fashioned Gin," with the caption "GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN." The image shows well-dressed figures gazing at a portrait of a woman in the shop window, as if viewing a memorial or remembrance. This appears to reference **Prohibition-era satire**—mocking the loss of alcohol consumption in America (Prohibition began 1920). The "gone, but not forgotten" caption suggests nostalgia for pre-Prohibition drinking culture. The woman's portrait in the window functions as a kind of memorial to alcohol itself, treated as a departed figure worthy of remembrance. The cartoon satirizes how Americans continued to sentimentalize legal alcohol after Prohibition's implementation, treating its absence as a genuine loss to mourn.