How does this artwork elucidate its Popular culture?
The first book based on Gertie's story was The Story of 'Gertie', published by the Journal in July 1945 and based on its daily coverage.  The book sold out three printings before being re-printed by New York's Rinehart & Co. in 1946.That same year, Milwaukee toymaker Earl F. Wendt produced a wooden toy duck named for the famous mallard.In 1959, Nicholas P. Georgiady and Louis G. Romano, two Milwaukee-area teachers, wrote a children's book titled Gertie the Duck. The book was reissued in 1988 after selling more than 800,000 copies and translated into six languages.Gertie's story was also told in an episode of GE True in 1963 entitled "Gertie the Great", featuring Jan Shepard as a reporter assigned to cover the hatching eggs.
Jan Shepard GE True Milwaukee