Collection Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing"Got an overtime card, buddy?" 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows labor leader John L. Lewis asking Father Time for his overtime card on Leap Day.
- Contributor: Alley, Cal
- Date: 1940-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingHave to learn to live within it 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a fat unhappy figure (labeled "Gov't Workers") whose belt is drawn tightly around his middle. The end containing the additional holes (labeled "Additional Hiring") has been cut off. Comments on the announcement by Bureau of the Budget Director Joseph Dodge on February 3, freezing government hiring and instituting other measures designed to fulfill the Republican pledge during the 1952...
- Contributor: Alley, Cal
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFixed Joe's little red wagon 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Stalin looking on in dismay at Dulles who has removed the wheels (labeled "Disloyal 'Wheels' in the State Dep't") from a child's wagon. Refers to Dulles's pledges, as he became Secretary of State, to weed out disloyalty in the State Department.
- Contributor: Alley, Cal
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingValley of the shadow 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a convoy of prisoner of war trucks labeled "The Few to Return" traveling through a valley over which looms a huge ghostly figure of a soldier with a bullet hole in his helmet. The caption refers to the Biblical "valley of the shadow of death" from the 23rd Psalm. Reflects American anger, as the first Korean War prisoner exchange...
- Contributor: Alley, Cal
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe "old" dealer 1 drawing. | Three-panel cartoon shows an older man (labeled "G.O.P.") attempting (and failing) to shuffle a deck of cards (labeled "Patronage"). As he picks up the cards, he complains of being out of practice for 20 years. Reflects Republican inexperience in handling political patronage as they return to power in January 1953.
- Contributor: Alley, Cal
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe endless night 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a couple, standing arm-in-arm beside a lighted candle, staring out a window into the darkness. Symbolizes the American families waiting, as the Korean War drags on, for their sons to come home.
- Contributor: Alley, Cal
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingArms and the man 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a barrel-chested Uncle Sam wearing a shirt labeled "Tough Talk" flexing a puny muscle labeled "Production." Probably contrasts the Eisenhower Administration's hardline Cold War rhetoric with its plans to cut back on military spending.
- Contributor: Alley, Cal
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Specter of war hangs over President Woodrow Wilson as he is reading] 1 drawing : gouache and ink brush ; 31.6 x 27.8 cm. (sheet)
- Contributor: Barclay, McKee
- Date: 1916
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Senate talking to man dressed in German military uniform and pointing at Woodrow Wilson who holds "final word," while the "House" just looks on] 1 drawing.
- Contributor: Barclay, McKee
- Date: 1917
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Uncle Sam sending electric charge into box labeled "Mexico"] 1 drawing.
- Contributor: Barclay, McKee
- Date: 1913
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Photo, Print, DrawingThat not so comic character : no time for comedy 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a despondent "comic" figure labeled "Old Man Weather" carrying a watering can, fan, thermometer, weather balloon, and wind gauge, while in the background a tornado wreaks havoc. Probably comments on the particularly large number of tornadoes hitting the United States in 1953.
- Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWashington magic 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows John Q. Public watching the GOP elephant (as a magician) preparing to make a beautiful young lady (labeled "Miss Tax Cut") disappear. The magician promises to saw a less attractive lady (labeled "Miss Budget") in half if time permits. Expresses disappointment that the Republicans have not only failed to fulfill their campaign promises to cut taxes but have deferred...
- Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingA few come back 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a soldier limping home while above him in the clouds a ghostly soldier says "Tell 'em Howdy for me." With the caption, refers to the disappointingly small number of American prisoners of war released by the Communists towards the end of the Korean War in 1953.
- Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFriendship 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
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Photo, Print, DrawingWonder if they have their troubles too 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a thuggish-looking Soviet "Head Spy," interrogating another "Spy," who airily refuses to answer on the grounds that it would incriminate him. Expresses frustration at the use of the Fifth Amendment in the United States by those accused of being Communist and suggests that no such protection is afforded spies in the Soviet Union.
- Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWhat, no fairway? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows President Eisenhower attempting to hit his golf ball from a rough labeled "High Taxes," "Big Spending," and "Truman Seedlings," while his caddie (John Q. Public) suggests that people may think he prefers this terrain to the fairway. The cartoonist suggests that the President may not be doing all he should to fulfill his campaign promises to cut government spending...
- Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWhat? no happy ending? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows John Q. Public watching an old-fashioned melodrama in which the Villain (labeled "Deficit Spending") kidnaps the Heroine (labeled "Administration") while the bound and gagged Hero (labeled "Economy Crusade") watches helplessly. Accuses the Eisenhower Administration of forsaking its campaign pledges to promote economy in government and reduce spending.
- Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingAgain? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows former President Herbert Hoover interrupted while fishing by a call for help from a man clinging to an overturned boat labeled "Gov't Operations." Refers to President Eisenhower's 1953 invitation to Hoover to chair a second commission on reorganizing the federal bureaucracy.
- Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
- Date: 1953-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[After winning most of the chips in a "Peace Commission Game" with the Spanish Commission, Uncle Sam points a miniature battleship at a terrified Spain] Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1954:R04.70). Published in: Minneapolis Tribune. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860110.
- Contributor: Bartholomew, Charles Lewis
- Date: 1898
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Smoking a cigar, an angry President McKinley fights with Spain about the scarcity of Havana cigars due to the Spanish-American War] 1 drawing.
- Contributor: Bartholomew, Charles Lewis
- Date: 1898