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Picturing Business in America

You’ve probably seen them. Maybe you’ve wondered about them. First invented in 1979, The Wall Street Journal’s distinctive portrait heads, known as “hedcuts” or “dot-drawings” have attained the status of an American icon, readily identifiable with one of the country’s best-known business publications.

Wall Street Journal’s “hedcuts” (hand-drawn head-portraits of people for use on, say, their frontpage) through the years. See, for instance, three versions of Steve Jobs from a little while ago, a longer while ago and an even longer while ago. Via.