Life — October 16, 1924 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page satirizes various types of collectors popular in early 20th-century America. The top panel mocks collectors of religious items (KKK memorabilia) and foodstuffs ("butter & egg men from the West"). The middle panel, labeled "I DO HE DOES," appears to reference religious or institutional collecting through a line of figures. The bottom panels show radio collectors (DX Collectors) obsessively tuning into distant stations, listing call letters like "KGO-KYW-KSD-KFKX." The final panel depicts "the man with a collection of prewax goods"—likely mocking Depression-era hoarding or collecting of preserved/canned foods. The cartoon ridicules Americans' tendency toward compulsive collecting across various domains, from the mundane to the eccentric.