Photo, Print, Drawing Will LBJ's luck hold out? / Hungerford.
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Title
- Will LBJ's luck hold out? / Hungerford.
Summary
- Editorial cartoon drawing shows President Lyndon Johnson as an American soldier smiling at a news headline on a newspaper that states "Viet Nam Peace Talks are Rumored"; not watching where he is walking, he has stepped into a large pool of "Viet Nam Quicksand"; a preliminary sketch on the verso shows an American "GI" smiling at the same headline while standing in the same pool of quicksand, but his helmet has been knocked off by a bullet from a Viet Cong soldier hiding in the tall grass.
Names
- Hungerford, Cy, 1889-1983, artist
Created / Published
- [Pittsburgh, Pa.] : Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, [between 1965 and 1968]
Headings
- - Johnson, Lyndon B.--(Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973
- - Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Peace
- - Newspaper headlines--1960-1970
- - Rumor--1960-1970
- - Quicksand--1960-1970
- - Smiling--1960-1970
- - Soldiers--American--Vietnam (Republic)--1960-1970
Headings
- Drawings--1960-1970.
- Editorial cartoons--1960-1970.
Genre
- Editorial cartoons--1960-1970
- Drawings--1960-1970
Notes
- - Title from item.
- - Signed on lower right.
- - Published in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
- - Inscribed in pencil on bottom: [...] Thursday bulldog.
- - (DLC/PP-2001:055-4)
- - Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature (Library of Congress).
- - Exhibited: "Pointing Their Pens : Herblock and Fellow Cartoonists Confront the Issues" in the Graphics Art Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 2015 - March 2016.
- - Unprocessed in WOOD/Hungerford
Medium
- 1 drawing : India ink and opaque white, over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 43.6 x 31.7 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
- ppmsca 38560 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.38560
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2015645657
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-38560 (digital file from original drawing)
Rights Advisory
- Publication may be restricted. For information see "Cy Hungerford Rights and Restrictions Information," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/691_hung.html
Access Advisory
- Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html
Online Format
- image