Judge — January 18, 1913 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Judge* magazine features three illustrated scenes celebrating American natural wonders: Yellowstone Park (top), the Canyon of the Colorado (bottom left), and the Big Trees of California (bottom right). The cartoons depict crowds of tourists visiting these sites, drawn in a humorous style with exaggerated figures. The satire likely mocks the emerging "tourist culture" of late-19th/early-20th century America—the way Americans traveled to marvel at natural landmarks, often in crowded, commercialized fashion. Details like the "Paint Pot" sign at Yellowstone suggest the cartoonist is gently ridiculing how these sublime natural wonders were being packaged and commodified for mass consumption. The page title fragment "SEEING...THE NATURAL WONDERS OF AMERICA" reinforces this theme of tourism and spectacle.