Postcard. Photo of Charlie Chaplin. Essanay series. No. 4. [1916].
The world’s most famous screen tramp. During his boyhood years (the 1890s) in London, Charlie Chaplin had been a keen follower of knockabout antics in British comics, as he revealed many years later in a newspaper interview (Daily Herald, 10 September 1957). See also H6 and D11.
