one of the many online resources the Seattle Public Library offers is an archive of Helix, "Seattle's first underground newspaper", published from 1967-1970. they're complete scans! really neat stuff.
most of the covers are the kind of groovy art you might expect of a hippie zine from that era, but for one of their 1969 issues, for the 50th anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, they just straight up reprinted a Seattle Union Record newspaper cover from 1919 as their front/back cover, with a sidebar explaining it and a cartoon overlay.
anyway, this is your reminder to check out the stuff your local library has to offer online! you never know what you'll find.
Stitched and masked in Affinity Photo, converted to B&W using channel mixer (dropped the green and blue channels) and levels, auto-outlined with a white perimeter, and exported as PNG.
I claim no copyright whatsoever. The original is under public domain, and so is this version (or if creators can't release things into public domain where you are, call it CC0.)
Being from 1969, the original probably still is under copyright, sooooo… fair use maybe? Or at least the “I hope they don't mind” license? Thanks to @arjache for pointing out that the original was public domain, which I missed. And for finding this resource in the first place.
I did add a credit line, partly because I didn't see the public domain part and didn't want to completely infringe copyright, and partly to help maintain that connection back to its origin, because provenance and credit are important regardless of what the law says.
It’s public domain! The archive says this:
Copyright Notes
This object is in the public domain. This item is in the public domain due to failure to comply with required formalities. It was published without notice during the following time period: 1925 through 1977
Public Domain Date
1969
This is presumably because it was published subject to the US Copyright Act of 1909, as opposed to the US Copyright Act of 1976 which established automatic copyright. I assume the SPL determined the newspaper did not include a copyright notice.
Thanks for cleaning up the image!