Photo, Print, Drawing "Love that filter"
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About this Item
Title
- "Love that filter"
Summary
- Editorial cartoon shows a smiling skeleton with "Cigarette Lobby" written across it's forehead holding a lit cigarette labeled "F.T.C. proposed curbs / House Commerce Committee."
Names
- Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist
Created / Published
- 5/30/1969.
Headings
- - United States.--Congress.--House.--Committee on Commerce
- - United States.--Federal Trade Commission
- - Cigarettes--1960-1970
- - Smoking--1960-1970
- - Tobacco industry--1960-1970
- - Lobbying--1960-1970
- - Legislation--1960-1970
- - Advertising--1960-1970
- - Skeletons--1960-1970
Headings
- Drawings--American--1960-1970.
- Editorial cartoons--American--1960-1970.
Genre
- Editorial cartoons--American--1960-1970
- Drawings--American--1960-1970
Notes
- - Caption label from exhibit "Herblock Looks at 1969": Herblock became a reformed smoker after a heart attack in 1959, and afterwards drew cartoons that railed against the tobacco industry. In 1969, lobbyists targeted congressmen from tobacco states in the House Commerce Committee to remove the words "cancer" and "death" from television advertisement warnings. Here, Herblock suggested that the committee acted as a filter on the curbs suggested by the Federal Trade Commission. In 1970 and 1971, cigarettes were banned from television, radio, and magazine advertising, although actors continued to smoke in motion pictures and television.
- - Title from item.
- - Signed "Herblock" lower left.
- - Published in the Washington Post, May 30, 1969.
- - Copyright, 1969, by Herblock.
- - Forms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).
- - Exhibited: "Herblock Looks at 1969 : Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons" at the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 2019 - March 2020.
Medium
- 1 drawing : graphite, India ink, and opaque white over graphite drawing ; sheet 55.8 x 38.1 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- BLOCK, no. 7291 (BB size)
Source Collection
- Block, Herbert, 1909-2001. Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
- hlb 07291 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hlb.07291
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2012637914
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-hlb-07291 (digital file from original drawing)
Rights Advisory
- Publication may be restricted. For information see "Herbert Block ("Herblock") Rights and Restrictions," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/271_herb.html
Online Format
- image