A Heavy Load- Chicago Tribune Art Supplement c.1907 — Children Harvest Scene Lithograph

Offered is an original antique Chicago Tribune Art Supplement titled “A Heavy Load,” dating to the early 1900s (c.1907).

This charming pastoral genre scene depicts three children carrying a basket of freshly gathered apples through a rural field — a classic turn-of-the-century depiction of childhood labor, harvest life, and agrarian innocence. The warm autumn palette and painterly composition made such supplements highly popular for framing in family homes.

Chicago Tribune art supplements were issued as large-format Sunday inserts intended for display and remain widely collected today for their decorative appeal and historical printing methods.

• Title: A Heavy Load

• Publication: Chicago Tribune

• Date: c.1907

• Medium: Color lithograph supplement

• Size: ~17 x 11 in

• Format: Original newspaper insert (not reproduction)

• Subject: Child genre / harvest / pastoral scene

• Frame: Unframed

• Original centerfold (as issued)

• Age toning to newsprint

• Edge wear / minor corner handling

• Light surface wear possible