This illustration entitled “Labor Day 1899”, by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on September 4, 1899, depicts Uncle Sam and a schoolboy celebrating Labor Day by bowing and paying homage to the common working man.
Cartoonist Clifford Berryman pays homage to the working man as the country celebrates Labor Day. Berryman shows Uncle Sam and a schoolboy bowing before a worker sitting among his tools, representing farmers, laborers and machinists.
