The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans
The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans is a 1925 book by Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican cartoonist. The book features several dozen black-and-white caricatures of famous American (mostly New York-based) personalities from the 1920s. Many of the drawings were originally published in Vanity Fair magazine, which employed Covarrubias as a staff cartoonist.
The book's introduction is authored by Carl Van Vechten.
List of subjects
- Florence Mills
- Otto Kahn
- Willa Cather
- Jack Dempsey
- Charlie Chaplin
- Calvin Coolidge
- H. L. Menchen
- George Jean Nathan
- John D. Rockefeller
- Ann Pennington
- Al Smith
- Jascha Heifetz
- Mary Pickford
- Theodore Dreiser
- Harold Lloyd
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Ed Wynn
- George Gershwin
- George Horace Lorimer
- Rudolph Valentino
- Leopold Stokowski
- Babe Ruth
- Carl Van Vechten
- Eddie Cantor
- Alexander Woollcott
- Mrs. Fiske
- Joseph Hergesheimer
- Emily Lewis
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