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Lot 492
BURCK, Jacob (American [born Poland], 1907-1982). Original ...
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BURCK, Jacob (American [born Poland], 1907-1982). Original Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Cartoon ?Higher and Higher?: Alan Shepard becomes first American in Space. 1961. Ink and charcoal on paper. Signed, titled, and dated by Burck, with notation at upper edge indicating the cartoon was intended for the Special Saturday edition, almost certainly for the morning paper following Alan Shepard?s historic flight on Friday, May 5, 1961. Burck illustrates Shepard?s historic trip as the first American in space, showing the astronaut looking out of his space capsule down at Earth. 22 x 14 ??.
