Collection Items

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Friendship on the rocks 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Uncle Sam in a lighthouse (labeled "The Watch Against Communism") turning the spotlight on an outraged couple cuddling in a raft. The man (probably Anthony Eden) is labeled "Some of our Allies," while the woman is labeled "Trade with the Enemy." Reflects American disapproval of British trade with the Soviet Union and Communist China.
    • Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
    • Date: 1952-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    I want that big one! 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows John Bull, as a boy saying "I want that big one!" as he points to a Christmas tree hung with ships with a large ship labeled "Normandie" at the top. Uncle Sam, dressed as Santa Claus, stands alongside the tree. After Hitler invaded France and drove the British armies out of Europe, President Roosevelt agreed to...
    • Contributor: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy
    • Date: 1940-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    It'll come in jolly well for your Christmas cash, what? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a jovial John Bull presenting Uncle Sam with a large bag labeled "On Debt Account 92 Millions." John Bull remarks that it will come in handy for Christmas. Berryman's signature bear dances happily. The countries of Europe ended up World War I heavily in debt to the United States. In 1923, Britain worked out an agreement with the United...
    • Contributor: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy
    • Date: 1923
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Uncle Sam and District of Columbia man giving Lloyd George the key to Washington, D.C.] 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows the former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George being given the key to the city of Washington by Uncle Sam and a man in 18th century garb labeled "D.C." Berryman's small signature bear holds Lloyd George's hat and cane. Berryman generally depicted the District of Columbia as an 18th century colonist reflecting the fact that its residents had no...
    • Contributor: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy
    • Date: 1923
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Time for a new declaration 1 drawing : gouache and ink brush over graphite underdrawing ; 43.7 x 44.1 cm (sheet) | Fourth of July cartoon shows Uncle Sam (with a copy of the Declaration of Independence in his pocket) shaking hands with John Bull over a new "Declaration of Interdependence 1953." Against the background of unpleasantness occasioned by criticism of the United States by former Prime Minister Clement...
    • Contributor: Fischetti, John R.
    • Date: 1953-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Expensive slumber Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows John Bull and Uncle Sam asleep on a sofa. A sign reads "Caught Napping! Pearl Harbor, Singapore, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, S.S. Normandie" (all disasters for the Allies after the Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941). Supposedly impregnable Singapore fell to the Japanese on February 15, 1942. The German battle cruisers Gneisnau and Scharnhorst, after months...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1942-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The sand is running low Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows Uncle Sam preparing a document entitled "Aid for England." Father Time, holding an hourglass, warns that time is running out. The cartoonist urges the United States to increase its aid to Great Britain, now facing the German juggernaut alone.
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1940-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Straight talk from the old man Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Uncle Sam standing behind a desk, sternly lecturing a man labeled "The Public." A sign reads: "England's Way of Life Is OUR Way of Life. You Must Save One to Preserve the Other." In the early years of World War II, as the British Empire stood alone against the Germans and the Italians, many Americans, including this cartoonist, believed...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1940-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    We can't risk losing them Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows Uncle Sam, rifle labeled "Convoy" in hand, wading through the ocean surrounded by merchant ships. In the spring of 1941, as losses of British shipping to German submarines reached new highs, some Americans (including the cartoonist) urged the use of American ships as convoys. President Roosevelt, fearful of bringing the United States into the war without...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1941-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    All out, my eye! Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows Uncle Sam asleep in a chair labeled OPM. A sign on the wall reads: "U.S. Defense Industry Only Half Mobilized! 6657 of 11,819 Earmarked Have Contracts." A beam of light shing down on Uncle Sam contains the words: "'The only way to beat Hitler is with full U.S. aid...' Churchill." OPM, the Office of Production Management,...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1941-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    It's later than he thinks Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows Uncle Sam, holding a paper reading "Aid to Britain," contemplating a large hourglass in which the sand has almost run out. A spectral hooded figure (resembling the Grim Reaper) seated on the hourglass holds a volume labeled "What Happens to Countries That Are Too Late." Meanwhile, a snail labeled "Production" inches by. The cartoonist warns that...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1941-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    What America can do to help win the war Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows Uncle Sam holding a paper reading "Reduction of Tariff Barriers," gesturing across the Atlantic Ocean toward a beleaguered British soldier and a female French soldier wearing a liberty cap. Although the United States had not joined the war in 1940, public sentiment supported the Allies. The cartoonist suggests that tariff reduction would enable France and Great...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1940-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    On the air -- Station U.S.A. Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | World War II cartoon shows Uncle Sam with watch in hand, speaking into a microphone saying, "Wake up, America! Time to stump the Nazis!!" Sheets of paper on the table read "Deliver the Goods to England," "Step up Production," and "Repeal the Neutrality Law." Using the motif of the popular radio quiz show, Information Please, in which people who submitted questions...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1941-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    On the wrong track Catalog Record Only 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Uncle Sam on crutches at a V in the road, choosing the road marked "Bottleneck Road, This Way to Disaster," rather than the one marked "To Industrial Expansion and All Possible Aid to England." Drawn in the early years of World War II, the cartoonist suggests that, despite its neutrality, the United States is only hurting itself when it...
    • Contributor: Kirby, Rollin
    • Date: 1940-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Russia: "How I hate that song!" 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows John Bull and Uncle Sam singing a duet called "Unity," while a figure labeled "Russia" looks on in dismay. Drawn during the early years of the Cold War, suggests that the Anglo-American special relationship is a deterrent to Soviet aims.
    • Contributor: Marcus, Edwin
    • Date: 1953-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    By the light of the moon 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Uncle Sam and John Bull reading a paper (labeled "Defense Speed Up") by the light of the moon (labeled "Sputnik"). Reflects the concern of the United States and its Western Allies that they were falling behind in the arms race when the Soviet Union announced the launching of the first artificial satellite in October 1957.
    • Contributor: Marcus, Edwin
    • Date: 1957-01-01