Some cartoons from the 1926 sesquicentennial.
Well, that was a bust. From the point of view of New Yorker cartoons, the sesquicentennial was a non-event. That “Third of July” cartoon could have been done any year.
But as long as I’m here in the archive, let’s take a look at Central Park, 100 years ago. No gags here, just Helen E. Hopkinson’s observations.
Comics I Don't Understand 
So, what is the term constructed for 250, parallel to that sesquicentennial for 150?
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Our 250th is officially the Semiquincentennial (half of 500 years). Other terms are Sestercentennial (2 and a half centuries) and Quarter Millenium.
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Semiquincentennial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Semiquincentennial
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It could also be the quin-semicentennial (five half-centuries)!
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@Powers: Sounds like six-and-a-half of one, half a baker’s dozen of the other.
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