Main content
Political Cartoon Collection
Notifications
Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
This artificial collection consists of one thousand original drawings, including a significant number by Charles Lewis Bartholomew, Otho Cushing, Homer C. Davenport, John Tinney McCutcheon, and Frank Arthur Nankivell. Other artists that are well represented include Louis Glackens, Harold Imbrie, Udo J. Keppler, Norman Ritchie, and Fred O. Seibel.
Arranged alphabetically by cartoonist.
FOR DIGITIZED CONTENT: Cartoons in this collection have been digitized and may be viewed or downloaded through this finding aid. To view each one, navigate to the individual item within this finding aid.
Material in this collection is assembled from a number of different accessions throughout the years. Nineteen Derso and Kelen cartoons were added in summer 2012, accession number ML.2012.027. A 1931 Otto Cushing cartoon was added in summer 2014, accession number ML.2013.031. A World War II era comic strip produced by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was added in 2016, accession number ML.1000.007.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
This is an unprocessed collection. Contents list updated by Adriane Hanson with the assistance of Jeremy Russell in 2010. Derso and Kelen cartoons in June 2012 accession were added to existing cartoons in Box 13 in 2012. A 1931 Otto Cushing cartoon was added to Box 10 in 2014. A World War II era comic strip produced by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was added to Box 29 in 2016.
This is an artificial collection. No materials have been separated.
People
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2001
- Access Restrictions
-
Collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
-
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
Collection Inventory
1 box
GOP presidential nominees; Taft, Dewey, Willkie, & Vandenberg spouting off on their stumps at the Republican National Convention beginning of June 24, 1940.
Kansas City Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 13
Republican and Democratic stools both in "New Deal Corner" of boxing ring (1940 presidential election).
Kansas City Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 13
GOP presidential candidate Wendell Willkie hanging from ropes of boxing ring while FDR, "the Champ" leans calmly in his corner.
Kansas City Journal, October 24, 1940
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 12
GOP presidential candidate Wendell Willkie reviewing his campaign speeches saying, "I've certainly done a whale of a lot of talking."
Kansas City Journal, November 4, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 13
GOP presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie (1940) hiding behind tree with huge gun of his "War on Bossism" only to be surprised by Tammany Tiger from behind.
Kansas City Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 13
GOP elephant tacking campaign signs (1940) on two angles of a fence with contradictory messages.
Kansas City Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with white tempera corrections12 x 12
GOP picking away at stone bust of FDR with "petty accusations" and "mudslinging tactics."
Kansas City Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with white tempera corrections12 x 13
John L. Lewis, president of the C.I.O, trying to decide which presidential candidate to endorse. He eventually staked his position on Willkie and resigned when FDR won.
Kansas City Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and inkpen and ink, 12x13
Stretcher bearers bring in "that Republican campaigner" (Wendell Willkie) who has "got his foot in his mouth again."
Kansas City Journal, October 2, 1940
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 12
GOP elephant spanking Col. Knox and Col. Stimson for accepting New Deal cabinet posts saying, "Boy, this hurts me worse'n does you!"
Kansas City Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 12 1/2
1 box
Monkey in tree (Mussolini) shouts for Adolph to help while lion with British flag eats Bardia. Broken coconut shells labeled crack Italian divisions are on the ground.
Physical Description1 box12 1/4 x 14
Mussolini paints out list of War Costs.
Physical Description1 box12 1/4 x 14 1/4
1 box
F.D.R., Hull, and Garner dance around a May Pole and a figure labeled "Somoza."
Physical Description1 box13 1/2 x 13 1/2
1 box
A haggard Cleveland desperately pumps his "Bond Scheme" in an effort to save the Ship of State which is being swamped by waves of interest and expenses. A hopeless and drenched Uncle Sam looks on.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink20 1/2 x 18
3 boxes
Spain Premier Sagasta and U.S. President McKinley both sign a protocol. Birds and plants surround an abandoned cannon.
Physical Description1 box17 1/4 x 15 1/4
President McKinley tries to hold a large gun labeled "Cuban Policy" while Uncle Sam holds a clock.
Physical Description1 box14 3/4 x 14 1/2
Gresham and President Cleveland sit at a table with a map of Honduras and Nicaragua. An unidentified third figure stands behind them.
Physical Description1 box9 1/2 x 12 3/4
Secretary of the Interior Fisher bursting through a map of Alaska with a paper labeled "Facts."
Physical Description1 box15 x 22 1/2
Seated Republican elephant with pipe in a trunk watching the "Trusts" monopoly pulling a wishbone with "Teddy."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 3/4 x 15
Corn, Wheat, and Oats in human shapes fly over a field in hot air balloons. Another balloon labeled "hot air" and a fuel tank labeled "annual crop scare" are on the ground below.
Physical Description1 box15 1/2 x 22 1/2
A man labeled "Italy" tries to push a bird labeled "Turkey" out of a fenced area into the woods. 5 unidentified men watch from outside of the fence.
Physical Description1 box14 1/2 x 22 1/2
President Woodrow Wilson sailing in a ship labeled "The Ark of Peace." A dove flies back to him with a branch labeled "Peace Talk."
Physical Description1 box23 x 14 1/2
Woodrow Wilson in a Princeton uniform chasing a figure labeled "Presidential Nomination" around a track. The Democrat Donkey cheers him on and the Republican elephant watches.
Physical Description1 box
Theodore Roosevelt sits on the ground after being bucked by a horse labeled "North Dakota." Roosevelt says "The critter never acted like that before."
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
Theodore Roosevelt as a giant, tied to the ground outside the White House. Small figures labeled Senate and House run as he begins to break free of the ropes. The ropes are labeled Lumber, Coal, Hides, Iron Ore, Cotton and Wool Schedules, Zinc, (Heavy Tax on the People).
Physical Description1 box22 1/2 x 14 1/2
Armored knight with a shield "U.S. Steel Trust" prepares to fight Uncle Same with a sword "U.S. Steel The Law."
Physical Description1 box14 1/2 x 22 1/2
Santa Claus flying in his sleigh over the earth, where several countries fire missiles at him. He says "What's the matter with the old world? Don't they know it's Christmas?"
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
Caption: "Taft. So much more can be accomplished by kindness than by brutality." Taft as a farmer tending to a contented cow labeled "The Hughes Boom." Hughes stands behind, scratching his head.
Physical Description1 box22 1/2 x 14 1/4
Governor Hammond signs the "County Option in the State of Minnesota."
Physical Description1 box14 1/2 x 22 1/2
Democrat donkey eating a watermelon labeled "Currency Legislation" while the Republican elephant looks on in dismay.
Physical Description1 box14 1/2 x 22 1/2
Two races. In the first, American revolutionary soldiers chase a British soldier on a road from Concord to Lexington. In the second, a British runner struggles, out of breath, to catch up to an American on a road to London.
Physical Description1 box15 1/2 x 22 1/2
Uncle Sam seated on the Congress building as "Senate Boss" Aldrich and "House Boss" Cannon leave.
Physical Description1 box14 3/4 x 23
Hungry Democrat donkey approaches fence of Civil Service Rules being put up by Woodrow Wilson. The fence protects a field of grain labeled "Government Offices."
Physical Description1 box14 x 22 1/2
Bryan reading a newspaper with the poll of Congress for President in 1912. Bryan is not on the list.
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
Figures representing the United States and Germany shake their fists at each other and carry baskets of eggs labeled "trade." Dogs with the label U.S. Tariff and German Tariff have wrapped their leashes around the legs of each figure.
Physical Description1 box15 1/2 x 22 1/2
President Woodrow Wilson puts a book on a shelf titled "History of the American People Vol. I" covering the first year of his presidency: a new tariff, new currency law, arbitration treaties, Panama Canal completed, Alaska R.R. projected. On the desk behind him are materials for Vol. II: foreign relations, Panama government, trust legislation.
Physical Description1 box22 1/2 x 14 1/2
President Woodrow Wilson as school master rings a bell to call Congress (the school house) to an extra session. The school boys are Democrat, Republican, Progressive, and New Member.
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
A moose on crutches walks down a road next to a sign "The Tall Timber." A man named Frost asks "What's the matter Mr. Moose?" The moose replies "I got kicked by a mule."
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
Baseball. President Woodrow Wilson pitches to the G.O.P. Republican elephant. Uncle Sam is the umpire and the rest of the team is all labeled "issue."
Physical Description1 box14 x 22 1/2
President Woodrow Wilson holds two crying babies, one the Senate crying "No!" and the other the House crying "Yes." A bottle of Wilson's Soothing Syrup sits on the table.
Physical Description1 box14 1/2 x 22 1/2
A man outside of Congress holds a scroll reading "Ship Bill Must be Passed W.W." and the severed tail of the Democrat donkey. The tail-less donkey looks back at the man.
Physical Description1 box14 1/2 x 22 1/2
Woodrow Wilson as a boy sweeps the snow off a walk labeled "Clean Politics." Bryan tells him "Good Work, My Boy! You May Be President Some Day" as Harmon (as a boy with a sled) looks on.
Physical Description1 box14 x 22 1/2
The White House is full of packages, with a sign "No Entrance for Ordinary Business until After the Wedding."
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
President Woodrow Wilson, with his bag packed for his Western trip, stands in front of a figure representing Congress. Wilson points to a giant standing behind him, with boots labeled U.S.
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
President Woodrow Wilson, wearing a graduation cap labeled "1st Term" and with a hat labeled "Second Term" behind his back. A figure labeled "Aunty Democracy" is handing him a top hat labeled "Single Term"
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
Four frames: Jefferson, Wilson, the Democrat Donkey, and an unidentified man. The first 3 are framed with U.S. Postage 1 cent. The last is framed with scrolls reading "Lecture."
Physical Description1 box14 1/4 x 22 1/2
Figure representing Cuban Insurrectionist runs towards a fence with a machete in each hand. Uncle Sam stands behind the fence saying "Look here you can't act like that - you're no presidential candidate, you know!"
Physical Description1 box14.5" x 22.5"
Uncle Sam has a new ear taped to his head labeled Panama Canal Strip. A figure representing Columbia walks away with a bandage over his missing ear.
Physical Description1 box18.5" x 22"
A dog labeled "Mexico" eats from the hand of President Woodrow Wilson.
Physical Description1 box14" x 22.25"
President Woodrow Wilson holding out a spoon of peace plan pills to Huerta, who does not want to take them. Figures representing South America, Japan, England, and France look on smiling.
Physical Description1 box14" x 22.25"
President Woodrow Wilson in a dress brings a bottle of Wilson's Soothing Syrup for Infant Republics to a crying baby representing Haiti. A happy child representing Mexico is in the background.
Physical Description1 box14" x 17.25"
Two small figures fighting in Mexico are about to get stepped on by a giant boot representing the United States. Two figures in Europe cheer on the giant.
Physical Description1 box14" x 21"
President Woodrow Wilson, with a paper under his arm labeled "Public Business" steps over a building labeled "Ancient Precent" on his way to an Extra Session of Congress. Buildings "Time Honored Tradition," "Custom," and "Old Methods" stand between him and Congress.
Physical Description1 box14" x 22"
Woodrow Wilson drops a suitcase labeled with a Princeton, N.J. address as he is greeted by a woman representing the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Physical Description1 box14" x 22"
An elderly Uncle Sam whittles while arms labeled "War Loans" stretch out towards him across the ocean from under a black cloud. The shavings from his whittling form the words "Watchful Waiting."
Physical Description1 box14" x 22.5"
President Woodrow Wilson holds his first grandchild and is being handed Eleanore Axson Sayre, his second grandchild.
Physical Description1 box14.5" x 22.5"
Aunty Democracy is trying to make a cake in a bowl labeled "Presidential Nomination." There are several bottles of ingredients with potential nominees. She says "This is where I usually make a mess of it - I suppose now I'll make some mistake as usual."
Physical Description1 box14.5" x 22.5"
Champ Clark's Hound Dog howls at the moon, which has a man's face. A man from the House of Representatives brings the dog a dish.
Physical Description1 box14" x 16.25"
A large Taft sits on a sled labeled "The Presidency" on a path labeled 1912. Much smaller Woodrow Wilson and Harmon look on.
Physical Description1 box15.25" x 22.5"
President Woodrow Wilson walks with the Democratic Administration donkey and an unidentified gentleman next to a wheat field labeled "Prosperity, 930,000,000 Bushel Wheat Crop"
Physical Description1 box22.5" x 14.5"
President Woodrow Wilson reads a book labeled "Tariff, Currency" by the light of a candle labeled "Senate Majority" that burns low in a holder labeled "Extra Session"
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 23"
President Woodrow Wilson, holding a bill labeled "Tariff Measure" prepares to cross a canyon bridged by a man labeled "Democratic Majority of One in Senate"
Physical Description1 box14" x 22.5"
Woodrow Wilson looks down at a little girl representing Minnesota, holding a book labeled "Primaries," and asks "Whose Little Girl are You?"
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
President Woodrow Wilson sits with a child representing the Filipino on his knee and promises that "eight years school in democracy should make you ready for independence."
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
Woodrow Wilson, his arm in a sling, greets a long line of people and has them shake a wooden arm instead of his own while campaigning for the presidency.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
Figures representing the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate hold the hands of President Woodrow Wilson in front of an American flag.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 22.5"
Wilson, Folk, and Harmon as donkeys in the Democratic Presidential Pasture. Champ Clark as a donkey is outside of the pasture eating a thistle labeled "speakership."
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
Champ Clark as a donkey being brushed by a man representing a Democratic Politician. Wilson and Harmon, as donkeys, look on concerned from behind a fence.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 23"
A fat man representing the Democratic Congress reads a bulletin that President Wilson is getting stronger and has a frightened vision of Wilson on one end of a saw, expecting him to take the other. The log to be sawed is "New Legislative Program"
Physical Description1 box14" x 22.5"
Woodrow Wilson sits on a stage, reading from a book, to an audience representing many nations. A stack of other books he will read include Common Sense, National Ethics, Morality, and Fairness.
Physical Description1 box15" x 19.5"
Three frames. 1: Theodore Roosevelt promises if elected to call an extra session of Congress to enact laws of human perfection. A figure representing voters is concerned. 2: Woodrow Wilson promises if elected to call an extra session of Congress to revise the Tariff. The voter is concerned. 3: President Taft promises if re-elected that he will eat more pie. The voter smiles and winks.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
Woodrow Wilson tells Murphy that there will be no political bosses allowed in this country. Wilson holds a sign behind his back reading "Huerta (the dictator) Must Go!). A figure representing the U.S. Congress laughs in the background.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
Woodrow Wilson as a fisherman, having caught a large fish labeled "Jury Reform" in New Jersey.
Physical Description1 box14.5" x 23"
Woodrow Wilson, Harmon, Champ Clark, and Folk line up before William Bryan asking for a chance to fly a donkey with "Progressive Democracy" wings at the Democratic Convention.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
President Woodrow Wilson enters a messy office with a new broom labeled "Walter L. Fisher New Secretary Interior Department." Issues that need cleaning up include Cunningham claims, forest lands, California oil land, mineral lands, conservation, water power sites, and Alaska.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.25"
Woodrow Wilson holds a globe on his back, with Democrat Party concerns in place of the continents. North America is Democratic Congress, the Caribbean is Legislation, South America is Coming Congressional Campaign, Europe and Asia are the Democratic Party, and Africa is the Democratic Platform.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
Bryan explores the top of the "World of Politics" but fails to notice Woodrow Wilson, the north pole.
Physical Description1 box14.25" x 22.5"
Wilson is forced onto the "Single Term Plank" of the ship "Democracy" by the Democrat donkey.
Physical Description1 box22.5" x 14.25"
Woodrow Wilson is being given a donut by a woman representing New Jersey. Figures of two other candidates are chased away in the background.
Physical Description1 box14.75" x 23"
Woodrow Wilson tries to mow the lawn as a stout man with a cigar gives advice.
Physical Description1 box16 x 22.5
President Woodrow Wilson, as a circus animal trainer. He directs the Democratic Party donkey, ridden by the Currency Bill, to jump over the U.S. Senate Minority elephant.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 22.5
Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson throws a figure representing New Jersey Trusts to the ground. A figure representing National Trusts looks at the fight, concerned.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 22.5
1 box
A postcard from Mussolini (in Albania) to Hitler (in Germany): "Dear Addie - Having a terrible time. Wish you were here. Mussie"
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 17.5
1 box
Simulated stained glass window depicting history of Irish in America. Saint Patrick is centerpiece.
Chip1 boxPen and ink13 x 16.5
1 box
President Woodrow Wilson forcing a boy representing Congress to keep sawing at wood labeled "Trust Legislation."
Physical Description1 box18 x 20
1 box
Price Administrator Henderson tries to hold down a floating pig labeled "Inflation Threat"
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
A giant octopus labeled "pressure groups" sits on the top of the capitol, smoking a cigar. Its arms are labeled intimidation, threats, treasury raids, subsidy demands, and log rolling.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.25
A giant snake sits on top of Singapore.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.25
A tank with a large claw labeled the "Nazi War Machine" destroys several buildings and a crowd of people.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
A gorilla labeled "Jungle Law" sits in a judge's seat for the case "Civilization vs. Barbarism." There is a Nazi swastika in the background.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
A caricature of a Japanese soldier drinks from a bottle of "Victory Hootch" with three bottles under his other arm, a skull visible on one bottle.
Physical Description1 box
A worried Uncle Sam. In the furrows on his forehead are the words "strikes, huge tax burdens, labor racketeering, subversive elements, inflation threat, defense snags, and political swiping."
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.25
A donkey struggles under a heavy load of military equipment, ridden by a Japanese soldier, along a road labeled "aggression". The soldier holds out a stick with corn (labeled "peace gestures") to lead the donkey on.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
France, represented by the figure of a woman, lies dying with a broken sword in her hand, crushed by a Nazi swastika.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15
Soldiers fire on a giant Nazi swastika.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
Dark Horses in 1940 Presidential campaign leaning over stall reaching for hay of "presidential nominations."
Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Times Building, New York; release Monday, May 20, 1940.
Printed (7x9) version for distribution.
Physical Description1 boxOriginal: pen and ink with white tempera on pebbleboard, 11 x 15 Printed: 7 x 97 x 9
G.O.P. elephant cooking campaign meal for 1940 presidential campaign.
Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Times Building, New York; release July 1, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxOriginal: pen and ink with white tempera on pebbleboard, 11 x 15 Printed: 7 x 97 x 9
A small bird with a branch in its mouth sits on a large gun covered in snow.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
1 box
Explosion of "Jolly Roger" over the Bryan letter. "I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way."
Briggs1 boxPen and ink16.75 x 18
1 box
A crowd of boys is sent from the "Charitable Orphan Asylum" by an angel promising a business education to the Fostoria Glassworks. A fat man with a top hat looks on and grins.
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 15.25
1 box
Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft, candidates for the Republican presidential nomination (1940), commenting on inability of the GOP nominee, Wendell Willkie, to keep up with "Third Term" donkey of FDR in presidential race.
Chicago Times.
Burck1 boxPen and ink. Black crayon, white tempera on pebbleboard, 15 x 2215 x 22
FDR's third term baby on the doorstep of Chicago Stadium where 1940 Democratic National Convention was held.
Burck1 boxPen and ink. Black crayon, and white tempera on pebbleboard, 15 x 2215 x 22
Republican bosses comment on Wendell Willkie's backing of FDR after 1940 election defeat.
Chicago Times
Burck1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, white tempera on pebbleboard, 15 x 2215 x 22
Businessmen sitting in waiting room of GOP "Doctors Dewey, Taft, and Vandenberg."
Chicago Times
Burck1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, white tempera on pebbleboard, 15 x 2215 x 22
1 box
GOP elephant pushing Democratic donkey in rolling sedan chair.
Knoxville Journal
Physical Description1 boxBlack crayon on pebbleboard, 11 x 11 1/211 x 11.5
Uncle Sam leading donkey down "The Way of Democracy" balancing "Alert Opposition" and the "Party in Power" on the donkey's back.
Knoxville Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon11.75 x 12.25
A Nazi swastika pulls a bear representing Russia by a chain around the bear's neck labeled "Nazi Diplomacy." The bear pulls against the chain.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 15.25
Hitler and Mussolini removing the Polar Axis from the globe and replacing it with a larger "Rome-Berlin" axis that breaks the earth. Stalin watches, puzzled.
Physical Description1 box8.75 x 13.25
A figure representing Europe flinches at the sound of a gun, while a figure representing the U.S.A. enjoys a game of baseball.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 9.5
1 box
A short man blocks the entry to a building labeled "Unsafe Theatre, Gambling Dive."
Physical Description1 box22.25 x 22.5
Two "jack-in-the-boxes." A man sits on one, Irish Home Rule, to prevent it from opening. The other, Boer Home Rule, springs open and carries a rifle and a sword.
Physical Description1 box18.75 x 22
1 box
Drunken man labeled "Congress" pledging not to touch bottle labeled "More Spending Recommendations," "Taxpayer" crosses his fingers in the background.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink on pebbleboard, 13 x 16 1/213 x 16.5
1 box
Four panels showing work of GOP Platform Committee hard at work with "ands" and "buts" only to have "U.S. Public" ask "Now let's see the candidate."
The Christian Science Monitor; June 28, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, and white tempera corrections, 11 x 1411 x 14
Two panels depicting Uncle Sam as symbol of "National Unity" being in one case pulled in opposite directions by the GOP and Dems. and in another riding on their shoulders.
The Christian Science Monitor: October 10, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPencil and black crayon on pebbleboard, 11 x 1411.25 x 14.25
Hand of "U.S. Democracy" checking off ballot with pencil of "Intelligent Voting."
The Christian Science Monitor; October 30, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxBlue pencil and black crayon on pebbleboard, 11 x 1411 x 14
"U.S. Citizens' streaming toward the "Ballot Box" dividing into Republicans and Democrats before entering but reuniting afterwards.
The Christian Science Monitor: November 5, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard, 11 x 1411 x 14
Japanese sun rises over horizon. The clouds are labeled Chinese resistance, Dutch sea and air victories, Macassar Strait and MacArthur's stand.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
A small Japanese soldier looks concerned at a large arm labeled "courage" carrying a torch "Dutch scorched earth sacrifices."
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
1 box
Angry man in military uniform jumps on an announcement of President Wilson's U.S. war aims.
Physical Description1 box18 x 18.75
1 box
Three panels showing the same man before Congressional Investigation, State Legislature Investigation, and Municipal Investigation.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; crayon and white tempera as corrections all on a cloth-backed paper, 27 1/2 x 13 1/227.5 x 13.5
"National Game of Politics" played by father, son, uncle, husband, and brother on the form of baseball and umpired by a female.
Physical Description1 boxCrayon and ink, with white tempera as corrections on tissue, 24 x 18 3/424 x 18.75
1 box
Figure representing the German High Command walks down a ladder on a ship named the S.S. Blitzkrieg. Hitler watches from an upper deck and a crewman thumbs his nose from inside, looking out a portal.
Physical Description1 box15 x 20.25
Empty ocean labeled "Pacific Sea Lanes."
Physical Description1 box15 x 20
The GOP and Dems. at a standoff with Hitler in between saying, "Let's you and him fight."
The New Orleans Item; September 19, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon and mylar overlay, 15 x 2015 x 20
Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito with their ears to the ground saying, "We're Not Interested in the U.S. Election."
The New Orleans Item; November 4, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with mylar overlay, 15 x 2015 x 20
The "Third Term Tradition" leaving "The American Scene" as FDR wins a fourth term.
The New Orleans Item; November 7, 1940
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with mylar overlay, 15 x 2015 x 20
Football game with FDR running with "U.S. Foreign Policy" ball as GOP, Wendell Willkie, and U.S. Voters sit on bench with Voters saying, "Why Should I Have Taken Him Out. He's Doing All Right."
The New Orleans Item; November 7, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with mylar overlay, 20 x 1515 x 20
A grim reaper, his scythe reading "staggering Jap losses" flies over marching Japanese troops. The front lines are being killed.
Physical Description1 box15 x 20
1 box
GOP elephant attempting to find the right thread (candidate) to sew up 1928 Presidential Election again, after Calvin Coolidge announced he was not running.
1927
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink15 x 20
1 box
Wendell Willkie (1940 Republican Presidential candidate) chopping legs out from under the wooden elephant of "Partisan Leadership" with the ax of "Americanism."
Star Telegram; Fort Worth, Texas, 1941.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon on pebbleboard, 12 1/2 x 17 1/212.5 x 17.5
Uncle Sam sitting down for a drink with Wendell Willkie (1940 Republican Presidential Candidate) on his return from campaigning.
Star Telegram; Fort Worth, Texas, 1941.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon on pebbleboard, 12 1/2 x 17 1/212.5 x 17.5
Wendell Willkie's (1940 Republican Presidential Candidate) face breaking through front page of newspaper saying, "I accept."
Star Telegram; Fort Worth, Texas, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon on pebbleboard, 12 1/2 x 17 1/212.5 x 17.5
Uncle Sam holding bear cub labeled "Rising Prices" in inset, main drawing shows Uncle Sam being mauled by full-grown bear of "Inflation."
Star Telegram; Fort Worth, Texas, October 1942.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon on pebbleboard, 11 x 1611 x 16
2 figures representing Japan. One apologizes to Uncle Sam and tells him war with the U.S. is unthinkable. The other stabs Uncle Sam in the back.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 17.75
1 box
President Woodrow Wilson leads a blindfolded Uncle Sam out into a body of water labeled "Internationalism."
Physical Description1 box21.5 x 12.25
President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary Bryan in robes in the desert. Bryan leads the donkey of the Democratic Party. They stand in front of an arch reading "Unjust Criticism."
Physical Description1 box10 x 14
Dove of Peace lies bleeding with a bayonet through its heart on European soil.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink14 x 15
President Woodrow Wilson as a farmer plowing furrows in front of his house to stop a ranging wild fire. The house is the U.S., the plow is National Defense, the horse is Congress, the furrow is Greater Army and Navy, and the fire is war.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 16.5
1 box
"Fireworks Manufacturer" with arms full of goods labeled "July 4th Accidents" and "Ohio Legislature" with "Bill to Outlaw Fireworks Sale After August 1st" saying, "After August 1st I'll have to Protect the Children."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink on pebbleboard, 13 x 16 1/213 x 16.5
1 box
"Dictatorship" entering "U.S. Constitutional Government Stronghold" through door of "Third Term." Refers to FDR's running for a third term in 1940.
Knickerbocker News; Albany, N.Y, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, and white tempera corrections on pebbleboard, 14 x 1114.25 x 11.25
"New Deal Big Gun" aimed at figure of business and private initiative.
Knickerbocker News; Albany, N.Y., May 28, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, and white tempera corrections on pebbleboard, 14 x 1114.25 x 11.25
Caricature of 1940 Democratic Presidential Convention as hundreds of FDR's nominating himself.
Knickerbocker News; Albany, N.Y., July 17, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, and white tempera corrections on pebbleboard.14 x 11.25
Throne for "King Franklin" (FDR) with crown of third term suspended on rope of Chicago Convention (site of 1940 Democratic Presidential Convention).
Knickerbocker News; Albany, N.Y., 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, and white tempera corrections on pebbleboard, 14 x 1114 x 11
Gladiator figure of "The Old War Emergency Issue" sitting outside "Offices of the New Deal" saying, "Sure -- I'll just hang around 'til election's over -- just in case you need me."
Knickerbocker News; Albany, N.Y., May 14, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, and white tempera corrections on pebbleboard, 14 x 1114 x 11
Gravestone reading, "R.I.P. '40 The Genuine Democratic Party Chocked Off by New Dealers" with Chicago (site of 1940 Democratic National Convention) in background.
Knickerbocker News; Albany, N.Y., 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; black crayon, and white tempera corrections on pebbleboard, 14 x 1111.25 x 14.25
A large arm labeled "drastic law" with a sword in hand comes down upon two figures labeled "tire bootlegger" and "tire thief."
Physical Description1 box14 x 11.25
A bald eagle, labeled "America's Full Air Might" struggles to fly while each foot is tied to the ground by "half-way measures."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 11.25
A U.S. soldier representing U.S. defense efforts looks towards Japan, as little figures of Americans at his heels complain, sow disunity, and spread false rumors.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 11
Large hand of "Presidential Control" reaches out and grabs two small figures of "U.S. Business."
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
Hitler puts up wallpaper with Nazi swastikas labeled "World Coverage." He is handed a roll of wallpaper of Japanese victories by the Japanese emperor. Mussolini lies, beat up, in a glue bucket.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 11.25
1 box
German-American adding "The American People" to the list of those deserving God's Punishment after reading paper with headline of "Wilson Re-elected Without the German Vote."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink14 x 15
2 boxes
Figures throwing "dirt, mud, slander," etc. into "Political Campaign Headquarters."
Newark Evening News; Newark, N.J.
Physical Description1 boxBlue pencil, black crayon on pebbleboard, 20 x 1620.25 x 16.25
Two women talking over a fence, one saying, "Between you, me, and the gatepost, I understand the Army's going to..." Meanwhile, an Army man sneaks up over the hill with a huge listening horn.
On back: "To Princeton University from the Newark News." Crawford worked for many years at the News.
Physical Description1 boxBlue pencil and ink on pebbleboard, 22 1/4 x 19 3/422.25 x 19.75
A knight in full armor rides a horse. The figure is W.W. (Woodrow Wilson) and his lance is Democracy.
Physical Description1 box11.75 x 22.5
A Japanese soldier digs in his heels, but also pulls himself forward by a ring in his nose, towards Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. The caption reads "From unimpeachable sources in the Far East it is learned that Japan is straining against bitter odds to maintain peace and harmony with the U.S."
Physical Description1 box19 x 15.75
A Japanese soldier knocks pieces labeled Singapore, Cavite, Burma, and Pearl Harbor from base of statue of Democracy. Refers to Japan's early successes in World War II.
On back: "To Princeton University from the Newark News." Crawford worked for many years with the News.
Physical Description1 boxBlue pencil and ink on pebbleboard, 22 x 19 1/222 x 19.5
President Woodrow Wilson as a cowboy gets ready to ride a bucking horse, Congress. Former president Taft sits on the ground having been thrown by the horse, with a letter inviting him to come to Yale.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
A woman, holding a paper reading "Legion of Atonement" and with a sash reading "Hope" encourages prisoners to escape through a hole in the wall. Outside of the hole are American troops in formation.
Crawford1 box22.5 x 14.25
A large figure of Uncle Sam looks down at a small figure of Uncle Joe.
Crawford1 box14.5 x 23
Two forms of gambling; on left the stock market, on the right a casino.
"Puck," August 12, 1912.
Crawford1 box24 x 15.25
7 boxes
Huerta, Villa, and Carrans each reach out to a woman seated on a throne, representing Columbia. Uncle Sam sits behind her, his hand cupped to his ear. The caption reads "Uncle Sam: Whoever you decide for Columbia, you'll be in the wrong."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Peace. A dove offers an olive branch to a bald eagle.
Cushing1 box16 x 18.25
An elderly man sits at a desk, drinking ice water and reading a book, representing a prohibitionist. Another man (St. Paul) stands in front of him, surrounded by clouds and holding a wine glass. The caption reads "St. Paul (to prohibitionist): Drink no more water but take a little wine for your stomach's sake."
Cushing1 box29.75 x 21.75
Taria, Judas, and General Benedict Arnold are seated, as members of the Betrayer's Club. A devil brings an older man before them. The caption reads "Allow me, Taria, Judas and General Benedict Arnold to present a new member, Senator Littlefool of Wisconsin."
Cushing1 box29.5 x 22
Sailors from the USS New York carry baskets of bottles and wine glasses, and one holds a mop. An officer talks with Mrs. Josie Daniels. The caption reads "Aunt Josie Daniels: After you throw overboard all them decanters and wine glasses you can set the crew to polishing the ships hand mirrors and scent bottles. -- Aye aye mam."
Cushing1 box22 x 29.5
A scene in Egypt. 2 men sit at a table, one Egyptian, the other in Roman clothes but with stars on the top hat. The Egyptian is dropping pearls into a drinking cup. The caption reads "Cleopatra dissolving the pearls of tradition - in grape juice."
Cushing1 box29.5 x 19.75
An outdoor party. A young woman with stars on her hat (representing Columbia) talks with a older woman (Josie Daniels), who is holding the arm of an angry young man representing the Navy. Columbia is offering a cup to the Navy, and Mrs. Daniels is refusing it for him. The scene also includes several figures drinking from their cups: a young man representing the Army, 2 boys representing the State Interior, and a boy representing the Post Office who is being served the punch by Uncle Sam.
Cushing1 box30 x 20
A woman representing Germany, carrying a flag "Kultur," points Attila the Second forward. He rides at the head of an army, with the soldiers depicted as pigs.
Cushing1 box29.5 x 22
Busts of 5 figures, the first Uncle Sam and the other four unidentified, each with a bird. A poem about Roman mythology links them to Jupiter, Venus, Minerva, Vergil, and Juno.
Cushing1 box29.5 x 20
An older man turns his back on a sinking ship. A woman, representing the United States, looks over him at the ship. The caption reads "Pacifist: Now don't get excited over the Laconia, Columbia - just remember how calm you was about the Lusitania."
Cushing1 box14 x 22
Parody of a Velasquez painting. William Taft dressed as a young girl, with two men behind him dressed as women, there to educate him.
Cushing1 box20 x 24.75
A man tries to control a runaway horse and cart, which is full of barrels and boxes. The horse, Congress, is running away from France rather than towards it.
Cushing1 box29.5 x 21.5
A young boy in robes passes between two rows of bowing men.
Cushing1 box26.25 x 16.5
A pile of bodies before a cathedral. Military and church leaders officiate.
Cushing1 box29.5 x 21.75
Uncle Sam dreams of a woman offering drinks from a bowl of Peace to soldiers representing Austria, France, England, Belgium, Russia, and Germany.
Cushing1 box30 x 21.75
Germany, depicted as a stout, plain woman, dances with a gentleman in striped pants, possibly representing the United States. Pretty young women representing England, France, Russia, and Belgium and a young man representing the U.S. Navy watch.
Physical Description1 box29.5 x 20
Two frames showing the evolution of 2 men. The first evolves from English (1632) to Yengese (1760) to Yankee (1916), retaining his handsome figure and stylish dress. The second evolves from Prussien (1914) to Autr'chien (1915) to Germ-Ameri"chien (1916), becoming fatter, bald, and needing glasses.
Cushing1 box30 x 21.75
A professor leads students through an art museum. He sees a shadow on the wall and thinks it is a classical statue of a woman. They are shocked to come around the corner and find instead a contemporary woman.
Cushing1 box29.75 x 20
Performers on stage for the opera Aida. Pairs of dancers (Russian) and singers German) fight with each other, pulling hair and punching.
Cushing1 box29.5 x 20
Diplomatic dinner where the presiding diplomat Miss Green has put up walls across the table so that Britons, Russians, and Prussians could have dinner together without an incident.
Cushing1 box29.5 x 20
A masked Prussian soldier enters a woman's bedroom with a drawn sword. The woman, representing the United States, is in bed with a gun in each hand.
Cushing1 box30 x 20
A Prussian soldier with a flag "Gott mit Uns" marches with his sword drawn. He walks on women lying on the ground with their babies.
Cushing1 box28 x 22
Young soldiers and sailors climb steps to receive medals from commanding officers. One holds a pair of baby shoes behind his back. Another points to a ship on the horizon.
Cushing1 box22 x 24.25
A soldier brings a letter from the U.S. President to Attila the Second. The commander tells the soldier to reply to the letter himself and say whatever he wishes.
Cushing1 box29.75 x 19.75
Attila the Second stands in front of a throne, ordering his mother away. He is surrounded by soldiers lifting their hats to him and military leaders. The caption reads "He repudiates all who presume to advise him - mother."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Attila the Second runs from a woman, representing France, who holds a rifle with a bayonet and kicks at him. His army, depicted as pigs, run in front of him. The caption reads "Battle of the Marne. He intends to occupy Paris but changes his mind."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Sitting before a group of people, Attila the Second paints a portrait of himself with his left hand, plays the organ with his right hand, writes with his left foot, and stirs a cooking pot with his right foot. A military commander reads a book "Me & Krupp" while a church leader reads a book "Me & God." The caption reads "He instructs his ignorant subjects in gunnery, theology, cookery, harmony, short hand, portraiture and the sciences."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
An animal trainer addresses a crowd of families. Next to him, 2 men in a cage strain against their chains. The sign on the cage reads "Felis Hohenzollern." The caption reads "Animal trainer: Here we 'ave the Prussian Hyena and cub -- the most blood thirsty brutes in captivity."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
A young soldier approaches Attila the Second to get a message for the wounded soldiers. Attila is seated at a table, eating a feast and drinking heavily. He gives the message that he is drinking to the health of the wounded soldiers.
Cushing1 box30 x 22
The crown prince and a military officer are captured and tied to trees in a Native American village. Their captors scalp a man, put a dog into a cooking pot, smoke a pipe, and drink from one of the Prussian helmets. The caption reads "Captured crown prince: But, papa, this is infamous, it's not civilized warfare!"
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Two politicians (depicted as the walrus and the carpenter) try to get the Democratic voters (depicted as oysters) to vote for them instead. However, the oysters will not be swayed and march with a sign "Here we go in a row - We Want Woodrow."
Cushing1 box15 x 22
Military commanders and a few ladies view a long line of ships.
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Attila the Second speaks before the Pope, who smiles at him. The room is filled with church leaders, most of whom are smiling as well. The caption reads "On a visit to Rome he teaches Pope Leo theology."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Couples, all of them stout, sit at tables and drink from mugs. A military official walks by, looking at them out of the corner of his eye, and a newspaper boy holds a paper reading "Morge Blatter."
Cushing1 box22 x 14.75
A woman (representing France) plays a piano and directs four men to sing from a book labeled "La marseillaise, Rule Britannia, Hail Columbia." The men are identified as Hindenburg, Tirpitz, William and Son.
Cushing1 box25.75 x 21.75
Three men, including Attila the Second, sit on a porch with rifles. Women are dragging farm animals in front of them to be shot. The caption reads "He was a mighty sportsman. No beast however fierce escaped him."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Attila the Second, surrounded by smiling military officials, rips up the Treaty with Belgium over a trash can. The caption reads "When inconvenient to keep his word of honor he puts it in the waste-basket with other scraps of paper."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Attila the Second stands in a trench, waist deep in water floating with empty food cans. He remembers the luxury of his camp and waves a flag reading "I freeze! I starve! I surrender!" His soldiers watch him, smiling.
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Attila the Second in his cradle, holding onto the skirts of a woman representing Germania. Men representing Insanity, Cruelty, and Vanity offer him gifts. Women representing Honor, Humanity, and Culture turn their backs on him. The caption reads "Ancestral traits crop out in the nursery."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Attila the Second, dressed as a boy, cracks a whip as he rides a wagon (Prussia) pulled by several angry or resigned boys. The boys represent Baden, Wurtemburg, Bavaria, Saxony, and Hanover. Adults representing England, Russia, Spain, and Italy all watch, concerned. The caption reads "Even as a boy he could show his little cousins how to run things."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
Cardinal Billsey, weeping, is lead away by two angry men. He looks towards another angry man, Aldrich. The caption reads "Cardinal Billsey: O Aldrich, Aldrich, had I but served the State with half the zeal I served my king, it had not left me naked to mine enemies. Henry VIII."
Cushing1 box21.75 x 29.5
Geese, representing suffragists, honk loudly and carry signs about getting the vote, waking two sleeping men in front of the Senate, probably President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan.
Cushing1 box30 x 22
A dog with a man's head strains against his leash and growls at a dog across the river.
Cushing1 box13 x 14.25
President Woodrow Wilson pushes a small man in a sombrero while a woman representing civilization tries to direct his attention towards three men with "U-18" on their shirts.
Cushing1 box29.5 x 19.25
Three historical figures as the three fates of Roman mythology, spinning a thread of votes instead of life. Attila the Second is Clotho, who spins the thread. Two unidentified men are Lachesis (who measures the thread) and Atropos (who cuts the thread, possibly Theodore Roosevelt). The cut end of the thread reads Nov 4.
Cushing1 box22 x 16
Depicts four figures in costumes suited for their work: "The Dancing Faun - evening demi-toilette for a Mayor of New York, The Aspasia - Presidential regalia when coercing the Senate, The Bellona - knockabout for an ex-President, and The Antinous - Coiffure for a Labor Leader."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
President Woodrow Wilson, dressed as Marie Antoinette, talks with the leader of the Navy. Outside the window, average citizens are getting angry. The caption reads "The people begin to murmur at Queen Marie Wilsonette and her Minister of Marine."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
President Woodrow Wilson and U.S. Ambassador to Berlin James Gerard dressed as girls playing on a see-saw. The Kaiser ("Willie") stands in the middle to keep the two busy and "up in the air."
Cushing1 box30 x 22
President Woodrow Wilson, as a female school teacher, is directing Uncle Sam to write "Peace at any price" over and over on the chalkboard.
Cushing1 box30 x 22
A surgeon in Renaissance garb operates on a patient's mouth. The caption reads "The delicate nuances of the French language can find no fitter exemplar than the courtly phrases with which Perré, the court chirurgeon, comforted the Balafré (scarred) who had fallen- 'Now _ you _ _ _ _ swallow This' (Brantôme)."
Cushing1 box
Theodore Roosevelt and "Carli" (possibly Carl Schurz) as characters from the opera The Mikado. The caption reads "Mikado: My morals were thought by all to be particularly correct... Katisha: But nothing at all, compared to those of his Daughter-in-law-elect! as tough as a bone with a will of her own is his Daughter-in-law-elect"
Cushing1 box24.25 x 22
President Woodrow Wilson in a robe, with Uncle Sam behind him, watches a crowd of men stabbing each other with two volcanoes erupting in the background.
Cushing1 box17.5 x 19.75
1 box
Several U.S. senators examine, through a large magnifying glass labeled "partisanship," the Hawaiian Question, which is represented as a small rodent on a blank piece of paper. The senators include Steward, Dolph, Chandler, and Hill.
Physical Description1 box15 x 16.5
A memorial to former president Benjamin Harrison. A cherub in suit coat and carrying a top hat adds another wreath to a pile around the monument. The wreath has ribbons with the words "patriotism" and "honor."
Physical Description1 box14 x 18.5
An elderly gentleman, Levi Morton, sits on a porch. The Presidential Bee buzzes in his ear and he is drinking a "Popularity Spring Tonic."
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 17.5
Two men look at the city of Chicago. The caption reads: "Stranger (in Chicago): The streets here seem to be very much alike! Chicagoan: Nonsense, man! The variety is infinite! Now, on that street you'll get sand-bagged; on that street you'll be brass-knuckled; one block down you'll get knock-out drops; and around the corner you'll be garroted. Why, a man can easily tell where he is in Chicago on the darkest nights!"
Physical Description1 box17.5 x 18.5
A department clerk in an office in Washington, D.C. works at his desk. He is behind a wall with spikes and the note "Civil Service Reform Law" across the top and a notice "No Political Assessments to be Levied in this Office." He looks up, worried, as a stout gentleman reaches over the wall to hand him a paper reading "Financial Secretary's Appeal" and in the other hand holds a large hat full of money. The caption reads "Have you any suggestions to make which would be beneficial to Republicanism?"
Physical Description1 box14 x 16
A man, dressed like Napoleon, sits on an island. The island represents Ohio and the chair the governorship. He is crumpling the McKinley Bill in his hand. A sun labeled protection is setting in the background.
Physical Description1 box12 x 12.5
Hill, depicted as a boy, sits on a broken machine labeled "Machine Nomination for Gov. of N.Y." and holds an ax as a turkey labeled "Presidential Nomination 1896" flies away. Hill cries and holds one of the turkey's feathers in his hand, labeled defeat.
Physical Description1 box13 x 14.75
A silver prospector, representing several U.S. senators including Steward and Jones, stands in front of his mine strangling Uncle Sam and bringing him to his knees. Uncle Sam holds a cane reading "Public Opinion." The cartoon refers to senators who where stifling discussion on the issue of if the government should purchase silver.
Physical Description1 box13 x 13.25
A graveyard, with each tombstone bearing the date and name of a boom. The most recent is the Hill Boom, 1892, with the epitaph "Since so soon t'was done for, I wonder what t'was begun for." Other booms include Greely (1872), Butler (1884), Hancock (1880), Douglas (1860), McClennan (1864), and Seymour (1868). Tammany Hall, the center of the New York City Democratic political machine, is in the background.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 13.5
Uncle Sam throws two men out of the Senate, Mitchell and Depew.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 14.25
1 box
Uncle Sam as band leader trying to coax horse representing the Navy down from a telephone pole to join Army, Air Forces, and Strategy in pulling the "U.S. Unified Forces" Band Wagon.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink22.5 x 28
4 boxes
Murphy rests leaning against a large tiger, representing Tammany Hall, lying on a bed made of large contracts. Murphy smokes, and in the smoke is an image of a man named Tweed with a bag of money.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
William Randolph Hearst walks next to an animal labeled "New Party." The animal has a donkey head, elephant body, and a striped cat tail.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A frowning, disproportioned man in a suit. He has a large belly and very small legs. On his lapel are the words "ich daen."
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
A man stands at New York Southhampton harbor with luggage, all marked with the seal H.R.M. and a crown, and with his dog. The dog collar reads "From Prince Wales." A crowd of people run away from him towards a sign that reads "Bacon." Only 2 ragged boys stay, laughing at him.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
A caricature of a Chinese man holds a bloody dagger in one hand and a smoking pipe in the other (possibly referring to opium), standing over several collapsed bodies. The smoke from the pipe makes the word "triumph."
Physical Description1 box28.5 x 22.5
Large men in grass skirts representing numerous trusts march with an American flag and the sign "All we want is 4 years more." The figures represent the iron, steel, flour, canned goods, paper, leather, rubber, bread, and other trusts. They step on little people as they walk. One figure has also stepped through the Constitution.
Physical Description1 box28.5 x 22.5
An older man with glasses and sleeves rolled up stands at a table with a box labeled "Nov 1905" and points at 3 dolls labeled "Gas Comm," "R.R. Comm," and "Rapid Transit Comm." A younger man stands in the background, hat in his hand and a feather duster on the floor.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Pyotr Stoylpin, a Russian politician drags a woman representing Liberty by the hair from a building labeled "Duma" (the Russian legislative assembly).
Physical Description1 box23.5 x 29
A large man, Murphy, sits on City Hall. In his pocket are contracts, gas trust, the Board of Aldermen, and the Police Department. At his feet is a dog named Tammany.
Physical Description1 box23.5 x 29
Uncle Sam in a bathing suit walks along a beach. Across the water, in Greece, soldiers in chariots and on foot run on the beach in front of a forest labeled "tall timber."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Two men, Taft and Hughes, saw chunks off of a log. They are working on New York. Sections of West Virginia, Nebraska, Indiana, and Ohio have already been cut off.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
At a circus, a tiger holds a woman and a girl under its paws, and an elephant steps on another woman. In the background, a few men hold back a crowd of people.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Two men and a tiger fly in a hot air balloon (The Gas Trust), which is shot down by the Gas Investigation. The escaping air forms the word Scandal $. The men are identified as John D. and Murphy.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man representing the Star Company of N.J. sits in the Corporation Trust Co. office and writes an editorial for a New York newspaper entitled "Down with Trusts!" The office houses the trusts for ice, leather, meat, hearst and others. A second man looks over his shoulder.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Uncle Sam about to swat at a mosquito representing Castro, which is biting him.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A can of "Fresh Canned Meats" sits on top of human bones. Vultures circle the can, and one sits on it.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Numerous consequences of drinking too much whiskey. Men are driven to violence, put in prison, and die and their wives and children are evicted from their homes.
Physical Description1 box29 x 23
The New York fire chief receives a laurel crown with the word honor from a woman representing Fame. A crowd cheers him.
Physical Description1 box22 x 26.5
An athlete poses in the center. To his right, a stout older man sits on his chair and smokes a pipe. To his left, a decorated military man tries to lift a small weight, sweating.
Physical Description1 box19 x 26.75
Uncle Sam is ushered into The Hague.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man and woman try to give a scroll labeled "Russian Liberty" to Uncle Sam, but he turns his back and will not take it.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Uncle Joe drilling into a barrel labeled "Standard Oil."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man tries to fix a broken rocking horse labeled "Peace" with planks labeled "The Hague."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Uncle Sam stands guard with a gun behind the "Philippine Hen House," ready to attack. A small man in patched clothes and an oversized military helmet approaches with a sack.
Physical Description1 box22 x 28
Uncle Sam stands guard between a gentleman and three men lead by a man carrying a bucket of mud and wearing a suit made of cards.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Uncle Sam, with torn clothes and tears in his eyes, tries to offer an invitation to the honorable W.R.H., but is ordered to leave.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Uncle Sam reads "Parkers Letter."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
The hand of the law points at a skeleton wearing a robe labeled "Carelessness." Behind him, a figure representing the Powder Trust looks at the bodies of several men killed in an explosion.
Physical Description1 box23 x 23.5
A man in a fancy uniform with lots of metals, and a crown pulled over his eyes.
Physical Description1 box19 x 25.5
A woman representing Columbia, with a stars and stripes dress, puts a laurel wreath on the head of a man in a military uniform.
Physical Description1 box18 x 23.5
Uncle Sam is tied hand and foot by two miniature men. The rope is the Trans Continental Rail Roads and the R.R. Capitol.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
At a circus, Taft and Fairbanks run on a ramp to try to jump over an elephant and land in a bowl labeled "Presidential Nomination."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29.5
A man in a striped prison uniform hugs a man in a suit.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man in a grass skirt (used in another Davenport cartoon to represent trusts) grabs a man by the throat and takes his money while a police officer looks the other way.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man in a suit, with a whip in his hand, orders a man representing labor to put his vote in the ballot box.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man, Gompers, stands on a stage in front of a crowd of men and instructs them to support Bryan.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man representing "The Journal" leads a man in a striped prison uniform representing the "Ice Trust" from the court house, passed a crowd of happy women and children.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
A tug of war with Uncle Sam leading the American people on one side and a man in a money suit leading the coal, sugar, and meat trusts on the other side.
Physical Description1 box28.5 x 22.25
A courtroom scene.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
A woman representing peace stands in Port Arthur, filled with skulls and cannons, reaching out towards two groups of ships headed towards each other.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A woman representing Civilization is chained by England's loans, jealousy of the powers, apathy, and russia's extension. Bones and a vulture are at her feet.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
A worn woman with an empty shopping basket pulls a young girl passed a shop with fresh foul for sale.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
McKinley, holding a declaration of independence, walks with a tall African man who has a bag of money. They walk by "the McKinley," a "Harem maintained by the U.S." One of the harem women holds a paper that reads "vote for McKinley."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
An emaciated man on a bed is fed a spoon of "Fever, used by US Army" by a skeleton wrapped in red tape. All the man has to eat is hardtack, and on the floor is a notice that his furlough is refused.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A crying woman carries a baby and leads a young girl, walking along a fence. All the trees are dead, there are a few bones on the ground, and two vultures in the distance.
Physical Description1 box28.5 x 22.5
A large man, Mr. Hanna, with a halo over his head puts his hand on the head of a poor boy. With the other hand, he pours coins into the basket of a poor old man.
Physical Description1 box22 x 27.75
A man, tears in his eyes, looks at the Statue of Liberty.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
An old man on his knees, praying. At his feet, small figures of soldiers fight and die, and there are scattered letters of sympathy to families of dead soldiers from several countries, including Great Britain, Germany, America, and France.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A tiger smoking a cigar lies on a pile of money in the city treasury.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man in a robe with military metals stands on the edge of the water. Waves roll towards him, with the crests made of men reading towards him.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
William Randolph Hearst draws a picture of a lizard with a man's head. On the lizard is written "16 to 1, anti-imperialism, government ownership R.R., anti-injunction."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A poor old man smiles and drinks a cup of coffee. The caption read "It means only a few cents to you. Think what it means to him."
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
An owner and laborer shout at each other and raise their fits in the air, with a paper reading "We Will Strike" on the table. A woman with five children sit and wait to hear their fate.
Physical Description1 box23.25 x 29.25
Russian General Kuropatkin stands holding a torn flag, surrounded by rifles pointing at him.
Physical Description1 box23.25 x 29.25
Uncle Sam holds a picture of Armour, responsible for the poisoning of thousands of Americans, wondering how to punish him. A picture of a man representing Spain, beaten and bandaged from the punishment he received for killing 266 Americans, is in the background.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
A stout man holds a bill for Joes War in terms of New York Debt ($300,000) and a new war tax ($5,500 per year). He looks at a tall, thin man. In the background, soldiers are shot in battle and a woman mourns in a cemetery crowded with tomb stones.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst walks by with a locked case full of "campaign documents," while William Jennings Bryan observes, shocked.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
William Randolph Hearst and a man in a military uniform stand with a tiger on a dirt road. Two farmers look at them suspiciously.
Physical Description1 box23.25 x 29.25
William Randolph Hearst punches a small man representing the "common people" while two fat men representing Trusts laugh.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Face of a smiling man.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man on a horse, sword drawn, with a flag that has a two-headed winged creature. The horse stands on a field of human skulls.
Physical Description1 box21 x 28
A businessman presents a scholar. A fat man in a suit with dollar signs claps in the background.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
A giant man, representing religion, holds a child by the foot with one hand and a whip in the other. Small people at his feet run from him.
Physical Description1 box28.5 x 22.5
Newspaper publisher J. Pulitzer sits with William Jennings Bryan, who is frowning. A paper on the floor reads "The World has sharply disagreed with Mr. Bryan. It has nothing to retract, defend or excuse."
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man points two school boys towards Oxford College.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 28.5
William Randolph Hearst about to fall off of a bucking Democrat donkey in front of the Democratic Club N.Y. DeLancey Nicoll watches from the club, laughing.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
A man in a suit stands in the center with American flags behind him. To his left sit Uncle Sam and an older man, both smiling. To his right stand two men in business suits smoking cigars, looking angry.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
William Randolph Hearst sits in a chair, looking at a ghostly image of himself.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
William Randolph Hearst as a one man band.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
William Randolph Hearst in silhouette, with the shadow of another man in glasses behind him.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
William Howard Taft as the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner." He sits in a corner with a "presidential pie," and pulls out a plum, pleased with himself.
Physical Description1 box23 x 29
Uncle Sam holding a copy of "New York Journal" with headline, "American canal for American people, Senate vote 65 to 17." Refers to decision under Theodore Roosevelt to build Panama Canal.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 29
William Howard Taft stands to speak at an event, looking at a cheering crowd.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 29
Uncle Sam smiles.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 29
1 box
A roll of paper representing the "Income Tax Extension Proposal" is warned not to cross the line of March 15 by a Republican elephant in a prison guard uniform with a large gun.
Physical Description1 box16 x 18
A man in a torn suit, Reyburn, carries another man in pilgrim clothes (Penn), tied in rope.
Physical Description1 box
1 box
Bernard Baruch and three unidentified men, all dressed as musketeers. Baruch hands them a document with a seal representing an atom, possibly referring to his role on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
Physical Description1 box27.75 x 20.5
1 box
Adlai Stevenson courts an older woman representing the 1956 Presidential Election, taking her to the movies and a soda fountain.
Dowling1 box14.5 x 19
Adolph Hitler pulls on a lion's tail, representing England, expecting a "lightning war." Another man in a tree shouts "No - No! Adolph -- It's Two Jerks of a Lamb's Tail!"
Dowling1 box14.5 x 19.25
1 box
Six panels depicting gradual deflation of "Willkie Hopes" (Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican Presentation candidate).
Philadelphia Record
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink; blue wash, and white tempera corrections, 18 x 1818 x 18
Factories in background across lagoon booming "under FDR's Management" and frog labeled "Willkie's Promises" (Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican Presidential Candidate) on sinking soapbox saying, "But I can do better if -- if -- if -- if...."
Philadelphia Record
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink, black crayon, and white tempera, 15 x 1715 x 17
Figure of "Power Trust" holding money bags and backed up by mounds of toys bawls as Uncle Sam gives TVA as present to deprived "Consumer."
Philadelphia Record
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink on pebbleboard, 15 1/2 x 1715.5 x 17
A man in armor representing "Pacific War" dictates to a woman representing "History," who types on two typewriters at once, one on Java and one on Burma. A stack of completed books sit next to her, including the Invasion of Borneo, Singapore, Guam & Wake, MacArthur, and Pearl Harbor.
Physical Description1 box15.25 x 17.75
Uncle Sam shows a rush letter he received from General MacArthur to a group of factory workers. MacArthur indicates that the success or failure of modern wars depends primarily on the resources.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 19.25
A caricature of a Japanese soldier eats part of the globe representing the "good earth of Far East," looking at a time bomb planted in the Philippines by General MacArthur.
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 16
1 box
Worker wearing cap of "Defense Program" and flexing bulging bicep of "Detroit's Mass Production Facilities."
The Times; Detroit, Michigan.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon on pebbleboard, 13 x 1613 x 16
1 box
A soldier rides a tank labeled "Nazi War Machine" with a "Just Married" sign and a map of Italy on the back.
Physical Description1 box17 x 22
Stooping man waiting at bus stop in a snowstorm. Duffy was of some renown, winning three Pulitzer Prizes.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink, black crayon on newsprint, 14 1/2 x 1914.5 x 19
A panting figure representing the thirsty Reich War Machine reaches out towards the Rumanian oil fields.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 21.75
A robed figure representing history writes in a book about battles in 1940 and at the end of the page writes "finished." In its other hand, the figure holds a copy of the British-French alliance.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 21.75
Uncle Sam stands on the edge of a cliff pouring a bag of sand representing the $70 billion war budget for 1942-43 to try to put out the fire of war.
Physical Description1 box15 x 19
A man representing India sits peacefully next to a burning paper labeled "Cripps Plan," while across the Bay of Bengal an enemy soldier approaches with a bloody sword.
Physical Description1 box15 x 19
1 box
Three football players labeled "Dayton, Cincinnati, and Ohio-U" bumping heads.
Huntington Publishing Co.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 16
Nine panels showing reluctant "Mr. Woeful" being coaxed into going to the ball.
Huntington Publishing Co.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 13
Flashlight of "Public Interest" shining into a padlocked ballot box for "School Bond Election."
Huntington Publishing Co.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink, black crayon on pebbleboard, 9 x 139 x 13
1 box
Wendell Willkie (1940 Republican Presidential candidate) throwing boomerang shaped "Attacks on FDR" that bounce back to hit GOP.
Austin, Texas; Austin Statesman.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink, black crayon, and white tempera corrections, 12 x 1412 x 14
Uncle Sam, his head shaped like the United States, sits in a dentist chair. Leon Henderson, as the dentist, removed the Sugar Supply tooth as part of rationing.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 14
GOP elephant building platform "Reserved for the Nation's Burdens After January 20." out of "faulty" Republican materials.
Austin, Texas; Austin Statesman.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon12 x 14
GOP elephant using rubber stamp "used regularly every four years" which reads "Help the Farmer."
Austin, Texas; Austin Statesman.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon12 x 14
John L. Lewis for the C.I.O. in "Willkie For President" washtub (Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican Presidential candidate) exhorting Uncle Sam to jump from "stability of the New Deal" to join him on "troubled waters."
Austin, Texas; Austin Statesman
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with white tempera, 12 x 1412 x 14
F.D.R. nailing up "GOP Falsifications and Hysteria" he has shot down with the "Facts!"
Austin, Texas; Austin Statesman.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon13.5 x 14.5
Jack-o-lantern with Wendell Willkie's (1940 Republican Presidential candidate) initials attempting to scare the public.
Austin, Texas; Austin Statesman.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink, black crayon, and white tempera, 12 x 1412 x 14
GOP elephant slinging mud at Democratic donkey who pays no attention.
Austin, Texas; Austin Statesman
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon12 x 14
A miniature man, representing Congressmen who voted self-pensions, reads a newspaper with the headline "Sponsors of Bundles for Congress Decide to Call Off Caravan." He is relieved, thinking it would have made him look small if that had passed.
Physical Description1 box13 x 14
Winston Churchill sits on a locked safe labeled the "British Cabinet." A lion, representing the movement to unseat him, circles the cabinet and growls.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 13.75
Uncle Sam, reading a newspaper with headlines about the Rubber Question, Sugar Question, Weather, and Business as Usual, is surprised by a spike labeled "Surrender of Singapore."
Physical Description1 box13 x 14
Uncle Sam is being fed medicine of "Bad News" by the hand of War. War adds some sugar of MacArthur's Continued Stand to sweeten up the medicine.
Physical Description1 box12.75 x 13.75
Abraham Lincoln watches the earth burn.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 13.5
2 boxes
An armored President Taft exhorts Root, Penrose, Gallinger, Bannes, and Camron to "buckle on [their] armor for the battle of humanity and the common people that must be fought," while the armor of Vermont and Utah lies on the floor.
"Puck" January 6, 1913.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink15 x 17
Graphic shows city of cathedrals around central square. Cameo shows a large man describing the scene to two older ladies.
"Puck," July 19, 1911, Volume LXIX. No. 1794, page 6.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with blue pencil22.5 x 17.75
In a sanitarium for democrats with drug habits, President Woodrow Wilson stands at the center of a group of men holding a bottle of "Tariff Subsidy Morphine," which all the others reach for. On the time are also high protection cocaine and dope.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 23
Graphics show "Flim Flam Finance" manipulating the thermometer of the economy with fire and ice alternately.
"Puck," September 30, 1907.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with blue pencil16.5 x 21
Beautiful young lady confronts a dyspeptic young man.
"Puck," April 1, 1901.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 17
President Woodrow Wilson in a gym, trying to get an overweight man representing Protection Trust back into shape. One of the exercise machines is "Tariff Reform Chese Weights."
Physical Description1 box14 x 16.25
Saint Peter directs a reluctant man toward Heaven where an angel applies wings and distributes harps.
"Puck," July 20, 1912.
Physical Description1 boxPencil on pebbleboard, 15 x 2015 x 20
Sinister China consoles desperate Morocco sitting on the steps of Algiers.
"Puck," January 22, 1906.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with blue pencil16.75 x 20
Boy prince reviews a bevy of prospective brides being led in by a military figure as a garish ecclesiastical figure and the stern-faced mother look on. Appears to be set in Italy or Spain.
"Puck," July 28, 1902.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink27.5 x 18.5
A pleased Uncle Sam monitors the embarkation of American troops from the Philippines at the end of the Spanish-American War and ushers in the "civilizing" forces of American womanhood who confront the awestruck natives.
Dated December 27, 1899
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink27 x 18
Men conversing at a bar.
"Puck," March 27, 1900.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink21 x 22
A conductor gives a harsh look to a horn player during a performance.
"Puck," May 8, 1910.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with blue pencil20.75 x 18.25
1 box
Figure in monk's habit holding cross appears before bar of "German Justice" which is presided over by Hitler sitting in chair of "Religious Persecution."
Physical Description1 boxBlack crayon on pebbleboard, 12 1/2 x 15 1/212.5 x 15.5
FDR backed up by obese figure of "That 20 Billion Dollar Congress" calling equally fat "Corporations" -- "Economic Royalist."
Physical Description1 boxBlack crayon on pebbleboard12 1/2 x 16
1 box
A large hand representing Nazi Germany bushes a soldier representing Japan forward.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 17
A dismayed figure representing voters looks at a group of present day politicians, all with fake laughs, reaching out to him. Over the scene are the dignified figures of past presidents Washington, Jefferson, Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
Physical Description1 box15 x 20
GOP elephant sticking its toe into cold water of "Coming Elections."
Miami, Florida; The Herald.
Physical Description1 boxBlack crayon on pebbleboard, 9 1/2 x 11 1/213.75 x 15.75
Men representing our enemies: Nazi, Complacency, Japanese, Indifference.
Physical Description1 box15 x 18.25
GOP opening door for "Ignorance, Fear, and Prejudice."
Made for Democratic National Committee, 1940 Campaign.
Physical Description1 boxBlack crayon on pebbleboard, 12 x 13 1/212 x 13.5
A large figure representing the Petain Government sits with his back facing the harbor, holding the French fleet there with strings. A large figure representing the Nazi's is emerging from the water to attack.
Physical Description1 box15 x 18.25
A large soldier representing Japan kneels on a map of Japan with one hand reaching for China and another reaching towards Pacific islands.
Physical Description1 box15 x 18.25
1 box
Uncle Sam floats in a rough sea labeled "Foreign Troubles" with a "Wilson" life preserver. An elephant swings at him with a club labeled "War."
Physical Description1 box18.5 x 24.75
Huge "Pork Barrel" (pig in a barrel) eats money from a "national resources" trough as determined Uncle Sam looks on holding knife marked "Army-Navy plans."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with white tempura on textured paper. 22 1/4 x 29 1/222.25 x 29.5
1 box
A man puts up a brick wall representing the McCarran Exclusion Act in front of the Statue of Liberty.
Physical Description1 box20.25 x 24.25
Joseph McCarthy throws smears, lies, and fake charges from the safety of the U.S. Senate.
Physical Description1 box20.25 x 24.25
Several figures sit around a camp fire in front of a tent representing United Europe. A man representing Great Britain sits alone at his own fire.
Physical Description1 box20.25 x 24.25
Laval, represented as a vulture, sits on a cactus shaped like a Nazi swastika.
Physical Description1 box18 x 20.25
A man representing the 8,700,000 unemployed is buried underneath a city.
Physical Description1 box19 x 22.5
A mountain made of people. A wall representing the Minimum Wage and Hour Law keeps people from sliding too far down the mountain.
Physical Description1 box18.75 x 23
1 box
Caricature of large man leaning on pillar in pose typical of late nineteenth century Robber Barons.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon15 x 20.25
A man in military uniform (General Leonard Wood). Tags indicate that his army, sword, and uniform are gifts from Theodore Roosevelt.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 26.5
A large man crushes a working man under his thumb with one hand and pours out a chest of old clothes for him with the other.
Physical Description1 box17.5 x 20.75
1 box
Ghoulish figure of "MOB" threatening Atlanta who attempts to protect herself with shield of "Broken Justice".
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13.5 x 18
1 box
Three half drunken Dutchmen carousing in farmyard.
Puck, New York, New York.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink17 x 11.5
1 box
Uncle Sam looks sternly on as a caricature of FDR's "intellectual" aide broadcasts "Provocation, Defiance, and War Talk" to the Nation.
Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Examiner, October 17, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon11 x 13
Figures of Dictatorship ascending to throne on steps labeled, "The Indispensibility of One Man, Centralization of Power, and Leadership in the Time of Crisis."
Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Examiner, October 4, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with mylar overlay, 12 1/2 x 15.12.5 x 15
Uncle Sam caught in middle of "Spending" stream on "Donkey of Prodigality" while holding onto "Horse Sense" - New Deal intellectual advises him not to change horses.
Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Examiner, June 6, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 14.5
New Deal Democrat attempting to construct "1940 Platform" with "Warped" planks.
Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Examiner, March 26, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with mylar overlay, 14 x 18.14 x 18
1 box
Two men standing on station platform (Lonehill) with a single woman in the background.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink15.5 x 20
Temperance preacher holding Christian Science tract in his hand standing in a bar with two cowboys.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink15.5 x 20
3 boxes
Uncle Sam enthroned in chair, with "Andy" (Carnegie) dressed as a fool, at his feet. "The court jester-sometimes his prattle becomes a trifle wearing."
Hand-colored.
Glackens1 boxLithograph, hand colored. Reverse has black and white lithograph. 8 x 8 1/28 x 8
President Woodrow Wilson addresses three figures representing the Trust Question, Currency Question, and Mexican Question, standing in the middle of the aftermath of a party.
Glackens1 box15.5 x 14.5
Andrew Carnegie as a cherub or gargoyle looking out at the setting sun. Two birds overhead.
Glackens1 boxPen and wash, 10 x 1110 x 11
J. Bull seated on doorsteps looking across the street at Uncle Sam sweeping. Cartoon refers to Boer war exposures: fake fire arms, bad ammunition, supply contracts, army scandals, and embalmed beef.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink19.5 x 14
William Howard Taft with a box of "Ohio bonbons" in his lap with a GOP elephant seated in a hammock.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink11 x 12.25
Andrew Carnegie rides barrel of Tariff Reform wagon. Figures representing trusts for steel, wool, coal, lumber, paper, and beef jubilate with "protection booze."
Glackens1 boxPen and ink9.75 x 10.75
A man representing South America walks with a small woman. Her apron is labeled "Monroe Doctrine" and she carries a bottle labeled "Wilson." Uncle Sam stands behind them, looking thoughtful.
Glackens1 box16 x 17
"Amateur night-$10.00 for the best ten minute sermon." Crowds of blackcoated clergymen mill around pulpit entrance.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink12.5 x 11
Former president Taft hands new president Woodrow Wilson a baby shooting a guy who represents the Mexican Situation.
Glackens1 box16 x 22
Man seated on a chair with child-sized woman on his lap holding candies labeled "To Ida from Jack". A bouquet for Ida sits on the table.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink, blue pencil used in the background, 10 x 12 1/210 x 12.5
Professional politician stands between two composite animals combining parts of the elephant (GOP) and donkey (Democrat) to form one animal representing Reaction Republicanism and Democracy and the other representing Progressive Republicanism and Democracy.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink11.25 x 12
Free-for-all in congress with fighters labeled De Armond, Sulzer, Fitzgerald, Gardiner, Goldfogle.
Puck NY April 14, 1909, Vol. LXV, no. 1676
Glackens1 boxPen and ink12 x 16
Oracle ("Genuine oracle imported from Delphi") seated cross-legged in cloud of smoke. Holds two signs directed at W.J. Bryan and Walker Wellman.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink10 x 10.75
Man leaning over desk with large club labelled "Republican Machine" and "House Insurgents" with wings and halos in the background.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink10 x 11
Bottle shown with head of Uncle Joe (brand) label, the other with Aldrich.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink, blue crayon, 10 x 1110 x 11
Bill Bryan seated in a chair with a bottle (Perpetual booze candidacy) "Nomination perfecto" in air behind him. Scroll: "I hereby pledge myself to quit liquor and tobacco in any form."
Glackens1 boxPencil, 11 1/2 x 12 1/211.5 x 12.5
Seven female harridans, of which two are seated in chairs. Pictures of Samson and Delilah and Adam and Eve are hanging on the wall behind them.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink22.75 x 12.5
Uncle Sam, holding scroll reading "Protest against Russian exclusion of Jewish Americans" opens closet and skeleton wearing sign "American exclusion of Chinese" tumbles out.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink10 x 11
Man in bowler hat and cigar depicted as a turkey, stares out over a parapet. His legs are made of celery and below him is a building for selling produce.
Glackens1 boxWash, 9 x 109 x 10
A circus. The "Trust Band," lead by Archbold, plays music about owning Roosevelt and the Republican Party. The GOP elephant dances with Taft as the ring master. Theodore Roosevelt is depicted as a monkey in the "Progressive Cage," looked at by Loeb, Penrose, and Hearst.
Glackens1 box23.25 x 18.5
Jack and the Beanstalk. The giant, representing Monopoly, falls to the ground as Jack (President Woodrow Wilson) cuts the beanstalk (excessive protection) with an ax (tariff revision).
Glackens1 box12.75 x 14.25
"Monopoly" seated at a table eating "benefits of protection" while a man (Underwood) sings him a song about tariff reform.
Glackens1 boxPencil, 12 3/4 x 13 1/412.75 x 13.25
Uncle Sam as judge in a courtroom. President Woodrow Wilson is brought before the court to be accused by a figure representing a Lobbyist, pointing to a poor family holding "The Market Basket."
Glackens1 box14.5 x 16.5
A smiling President Woodrow Wilson brushes himself off after a wedding party and addresses three tired figures representing the trust question, currency question, and Mexican question.
Glackens1 box12.5 x 14
President Woodrow Wilson as a traffic cop. He halts cars and wagons representing the Republican machine, peanut politics, Wall Street, opposition press, and Bull Moose so that two elderly ladies representing the Tariff Bill and Currency Bill can cross the street.
Glackens1 box20 x 10.25
Uncle Sam enthroned in chair, with "Andy" (Carnegie) dressed as a fool, at his feet.
"Puck" stamped on reverse.
Glackens1 boxPencil sketch, 12 x 13 1/412.5 x 14
Workers stand outside factory reading notice ..."if the Tariff bill is passed, your wages will be cut." Oversized man labeled Redfield holds notice to manufacturers that the Department of Commerce will investigate wage reductions.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink12 x 16.5
The GOP Republican elephant walks away from Woodrow Wilson's White House, bag in hand, looking back sadly.
Glackens1 box10.75 x 11.75
President Woodrow Wilson as a lion tamer. The lion is his secretary of state William Jennings Bryan, and his water dish is full of harmony.
Glackens1 box16.75 x 10.75
William Jennings Bryan, depicted as a bird, stands on a perch made from buildings representing Chautauqua and the Commoner, ripping open boxes of "cabinet portfolios" and "ambassador's snaps."
Glackens1 box12.5 x 16
A mother, representing Monopoly, demands a fireman (the New Jersey Legislature) save her child (New Jersey corporation law) from a burning building. The fire represents Governor Woodrow Wilson's Anti-trust crusade.
Glackens1 box16 x 17
A young lady huntress with the turkey she has shot.
Glackens1 boxPen and ink14 x 19.25
1 box
FDR as woman trying to decide whether to buy Easter Bonnet of "Third Term."
New York Sun; March 22, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon11.5 x 15
FDR holding donkey, shaking money out of its ear saying, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear - But you can out of a donkey's!"
New York Sun, October 29, 1940 (?)
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon12 x 15.5
"Joe Public" overwhelmed by eight ball of "Roosevelt's Eighth Year."
New York Sun, March 6, 1941
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink and black crayon11.5 x 15
1 box
Street scene outside subway stairs. A rich man is giving money to a blind man in foreground while old lady is knocked aside in the stairwell. Stylish couple passes by in background.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink20.125 x 16.25
A series of men's faces arranged in vertical stripes.
Puck, February 25, 1907
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink22.625 x 17.75
1 box
Caricature of industrial capitalist sits on money bag with factories in background labeled "Industrial Depression." The "Wage Earner" prostrates himself before the capitalist.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink19 x 11.75
1 box
FDR as King canceling the U.S. Constitution.
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
"Boss" Edward J. Flynn (Democratic National Chairman) concocting recipe for "New Deal Campaign" 1940.
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
Uncle Sam pointing to portraits of Jackson, Jefferson, and Washington hanging over FDR's desk saying "I've has some darn good men but they refused a third term." FDR insists he's needed.
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
FDR hiding his book of "3rd Term Politics" behind book of "National Emergencies and U.S. Defense Problems."
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
FDR and Uncle Sam on tour of Defense plants but FDR cannot keep his eyes off "The Voting Public."
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
FDR wearing his "3rd Term" tuxedo, cuts in on Uncle Sam and Liberty who have been dancing.
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
FDR addressing the nation while he hides stick of "Dictatorship" behind his back.
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
Democratic donkey atop 1940 Democratic "Platform" which is shoddily constructed on shaky foundation of "The Seven Year New Deal Record."
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
FDR's "3rd Term Band Wagon" pulled up at John L. Lewis' (leader of C.I.O.) steps ready for him. Lewis decided to put his support behind FDR's challenger, Wendell Willkie in the 1940 campaign.
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
FDR as Little Bo Peep searching for sheep (Fellow Democrats) who have fled through hole in party fence made by falling tree of "Rooseveltism."
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
Armoured FDR riding war steed shouting over radio microphone, "I Hate War!"
The Wheeling News
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13 x 15
2 boxes
A man uses his cane to poke a fat man who is shouting "Deutschland uber allies! Down mit Wilson!"
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 18
Thomas Watson, Georgian Democratic politican and writer, being thrown out of Georgia along with his slander sheets by figures of "honest citizen," classical figure of Georgia, the Church, and Uncle Sam. Refers to Watson's publishing of the ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY in 1910 which caused an uproar.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink26 x 18.5
Rumpled, stout, and drunk gentleman rolls up to "Paying Teller" who holds slip in his fist and looks sternly at the man.
Puck January 10, 1911
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with brown ink washes18 x 23.25
Prison cell scene with Tom Watson, Georgian Democratic politician and writer, arranging to have figure named Creen kill sleeping figure named Frank.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with white tempera corrections, 22 3/4 x 18 1/222.75 x 18.5
A small figure, Frank, is pulled into a cave by a large hand representing legal technicalities. Over the cave is written "All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here." A man named Thaw and his millions wave to Frank.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with white tempera corrections, 20 1/2 x 27 1/220.5 x 27.5
1 box
A figure representing the Tin Plate Industry knocks on the door of the "Great American High Tariff Workhouse: 47 1/2 cents charity bestowed on every dollars worth produced." It refers to the McKinley Tariff of 1890, which created an American tinplate industry by high duty on foreign imports.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 12.5
1 box
Adolph Hitler in a tank representing "Totalitarian Conquest" drives up to a detour caused by the Monroe Doctrine, sending him away from the Americas.
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 16.75
Four frame cartoon about rationing. Tires and sugar are scarce, but there are plenty of men registering for military service and defense bonds and stamps to purchase. The cartoon ends with "And remember - the faster we buy bonds and stamps the sooner we will again have all the other good things."
Physical Description1 box22.25 x 10
1 box
A magic show. A man representing Congress has sawed a woman in half, and is leaving without putting her back together. One half is "neutrality" and the other is "legislation."
Block1 box15 x 22
A large soldier representing the Nazi's stands on a map of Europe, facing England but looking back at the Mediterranean. Planes fly towards England and northern Africa is full of tanks.
Block1 box15 x 22.25
Caricatures of Hitler and two other men are hit by a large fist representing the U.S.A. They see stars labeled troops, planes, tanks, ships, and guns.
Block1 box13.75 x 18
1 box
England, Italy, Russia, Germany, and Uncle Sam are waiting to see what FDR will pull out of his "Democratic Convention (1940)" hat.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hungerford1 boxPen and ink12 x 17
Uncle Sam absorbed in "Presidential Campaign Crossword Puzzle" sitting atop Hitler's smoldering "Blitzkrieg Volcano."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hungerford1 boxPen and ink12 x 17
2 Panels-- 1) June 1940, FDR's Campaign Headquarter (New Deal Novelties) alone on street.
2) August 1940, Wendell Willkie (Republican Presidential candidate) has built up his Headquarters and has plans for additions.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hungerford1 boxPen and ink12 x 17
Wendell Willkie (1940 Republican Presidential Candidate) challenging FDR to a debate as he constructs a platform atop his headquarters.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hungerford1 boxPen and ink12 x 17
"The Public" painting Willkie" (Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican Presidential candidate) across campaign headquarters as "Ole Time Political Boss" looks on.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hungerford1 boxPen and ink12 x 17
Delegate to 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago being rolled flat by FDR in his "Steamroller."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hungerford1 boxPen and ink12 x 17
FDR riding high above the Democratic donkey with its "Third Term Saddle" on the way to the "Chicago Track" (site of the 1940 Democratic National Convention.)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hungerford1 boxPen and ink13.5 x 17.5
1 box
Two snakes emerge from a trunk of clothes and look at each other. A woman reads in the background.
Physical Description1 box12 x 13
A man carrying cases in the shape of a banjo and a rifle talks to another man who is seated on a bench.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 14
Stephen B. Elkins walks through the U.S. Senate with a certificate of election in one hand and a bag of money in the other. He walks by men with signs reading "Smith," "Jones Bonanza Senator," "Teller Senator on Cash Basis," and "Brice Senator by Grace of Boodle."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 14
2 boxes
Ladies and gentlemen in fancy clothes stand talking to each other, facing a door. Behind them, a blank sign hides two mice.
Physical Description1 box21.75 x 15
A man and a woman on a ship's deck run into each other, both dropping a book, as the deck tilts.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 21.5
Theodore Roosevelt depicted as an older woman tries to sweep as a big gust of wind comes in through the window, knocking a picture sideways and blowing open a book.
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 14.75
President Theodore Roosevelt, depicted as a woman in dress and apron, sweeps hard enough to cause the dust to billow.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 11.75
President Taft, depicted as a maid with black dress and white apron, vacuums.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 11.5
Depiction of a Princeton University football player in 1882 and 1912. The 1882 player is thin, smiles, and has no padding. The 1912 player is muscular, frowns, and has lots of padding.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 11.5
A woman in a gown begins to climb a staircase in a dark room. A man with a candle looks down from higher up the staircase. A note on the cartoon: copy of picture by Charles Dana Gibson.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 18.25
Princeton football players are helped off the field by team mates or on stretchers.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
A young man and woman slide off a log they were sitting on as one end of the log rises up. A dog watches them.
Physical Description1 box15 x 10
Princeton football. Almost all members of both teams are piled up trying to find the ball, which comes loose. A Princeton player tries to catch it.
Physical Description1 box14 x 11
Princeton football. Four players on the opposing team hold onto a Princeton player, who has the ball, but they are unable to stop him from moving forward.
Physical Description1 box14 x 11.25
A young man in a suit and bowtie.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
A woman in a fancy dress comes through curtains.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 20
A young couple dance together at the Officers' Mess, Witchitaw Falls, Texas.
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 14.5
Sketches of several men and women. A note on the back indicates that they were drawn when the artist was 13 years old.
Physical Description1 box15 x 10
Head and shoulders of a young woman. There is a sketch of a young man on the back.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
Head and shoulders of a young woman.
Physical Description1 box8 x 12
This imgage appears to be two different cartoons. On the left: two men in suits with one man in mid-fall reaching for his hat. On the right: four figures in hats walking and standing around.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
A man is hit from behind by a train or trolley car.
Physical Description1 box15 x 7.5
Two men walk through the woods. One struggles with the weight of several bags and is tripping over a log. The other is carrying a canoe over his head, and the canoe is getting stuck in a tree.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 21.25
Men and women talk together or sit eating at a party.
Physical Description1 box15 x 7
A man carrying paintbrushes and a palette answers the door to a man with his hat in his hands.
Physical Description1 box15 x 11.25
A young woman in fancy clothes stands at a table holding several books, looking away from them.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
A man leans down to brush the dirt off of his own shadow.
Physical Description1 box7.5 x 8
Two men, one in a three piece suit with striped pants, the other with a coat that has fur on the cuffs and collar, a top hat, and cane.
Physical Description1 box7.25 x 9.75
A man climbs onto the thin branch of a tree to try to reach a bird's nest, but his weight causes the branch to bend and an egg to fall from the nest. He also drops a book. The man has a hole in his shoe, and so possible represents Adlai Stevenson.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.25
A sporting event. A stout man is ordered to leave a bench by the usher to make room for a young couple carrying a Princeton flag. A young couple with a Yale flag sit next to him.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 8.75
Sketch of a young woman's face.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
Sketch of a seated young woman.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
A well-dressed customer in a hardware store asks the clerk behind the desk if he has any small vices. The clerk angrily replies "That's none of your business!"
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 20
A runner in a striped shirt (possibly a Princeton University athlete) struggles up a hill, with two other struggling runners in the background.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 21.25
1 box
President Calvin Coolidge dancing with huge woman labeled "Heavy Presidential Responsibilities" and saying, "If you don't mind, I think I'll sit out the next one!" while prospective candidates gape on from right.
Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink21 5/8 x 17 3/8
Men in foreground reading frantically of an airplane crash while autos collide in background. Two of the accident prone drivers are conversing. One says, "Read about the airplane crash this morning?" The other answers, "Yes-they're not safe! Too many nuts driving 'em!"
Saturday Evening Post
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink21.5 x 17.5
Fat, bearded symbol of the establishment seated at desk saying, "It can't be done!" with back turned to General Mitchell who holds a paper labeled "Future of Air Power." Figures of Columbus, Fulton, Morse, Cyrus, and Langley in background.
Saturday Evening Post
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 17.75
Hoover as farmer bringing calf labeled "Farm Problem" from dummy cow on left labeled "Political Panaceas & Promises" to cow on right labeled "Economic Realities."
Saturday Evening Post
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink20.5 x 19.75
1 box
A man, Knick, stands in the snow hitting animals wearing top hats that are emerging from a hole in a hill. The hill was the "Public Service Commission" but the public has been crossed out and replaced with "Private."
Physical Description1 box15 x 7
1 box
Caricatures of General Reed Smoot, Field Marshal Penrose, and Major "Pop" Gallinger.
Physical Description1 box12.75 x 13.25
A large man glowers down at a small GOP Republican elephant, who says "Yes, boss."
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
2 boxes
William Jennings Bryan kneels in front of a safe labeled "The Presidency," holding a paper that reads "16 to 1 Populism, anti-imperialism, predatory wealth, and anti-everything." He holds a hand to his ear to ignore four men trying to get his attention about tariff reform: Underwood, Clark, Wilson, and Harmon."
Keppler1 box19.25 x 12.25
Three men (Gorman, Brice, and Smith, Jr.) sit in a cage hung out in front of the Democratic National Headquarters. A sign on the cage reads "Exposed here as a warning for all time - these traitors to democratic principles and satraps of trust and monopoly."
Keppler1 box13 x 13.25
Figure labeled "Miss Democracy" seated in bed looks aghast at a vast array of Christmas presents all bearing visage of William Jennings Bryan.
Black and white version on reverse.
Keppler1 boxHand-colored lithograph, 21 1/4 x 14 1/421.25 x 14.25
Figure labeled "Miss Democracy" seated in bed looks aghast at a vast array of Christmas presents all bearing the visage of William Jennings Bryan.
"Puck," December 9, 1907.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard21.25 x 14.25
A crowd of people run from a thin old man in rags labeled T.C.P., carrying a crutch representing the "State Republican Machine" and a bottle labeled "Express Co."
Keppler1 box15 x 16.25
Policeman labeled "Graft Tariff" halts a working class family about to cross the street to a woods labeled "Prosperity" where five fat men labeled "Beef Trust," "Coal Trust," "Steel Trust," "Clothing Trust," and "Lumber Trust" are reveling.
"Puck," October, 1907
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard19.25 x 12
Spider is labeled "interstate Commerce Commission" and the web is labeled "The Law". Fly is Averell Harriman.
"Puck", May 29, 1907
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard11.25 x 14.25
Aladdin-like figure wearing hat of "Vested Interests" lounges on ottoman as genie figure labeled "the Reputable Press" presents news stories edited to his master's liking.
"Puck," January 4, 1907.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard19.25 x 12.5
Aladdin-like figure wearing hat of "Vested Interests" lounges on an ottoman as the genie of "The Reputable Press" presents news stories edited to his master's liking.
Lithograph--black and white on one side, hand colored on the reverse with blue "X's" and "Kill" added from original,
Keppler1 boxLithograph, 19 1/4 x 12 3/819.25 x 12.5
Triumphal procession in which figures labeled Lodge, Foraker, Aldrich, and Shaw bear a container labeled "Dingley Tariff" and are led by figure with upraised arms identified as Cannon. Pious figures to the side are labeled "Trust, Infant Industries, and Protected Monopoly."
"Puck," November 19, 1906.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard18 x 12.75
An older couple huddles in their bed, holding an umbrella to keep out the water from their leaking roof.
Keppler1 box15 x 14.75
Figures of hunters labeled "Public Service Corp." and "Political Boss" crouching in the foreground as decoys labeled "Respectable Candidates attract flocks labeled "Votes."
"Puck," October 1, 1909.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard11.25 x 14.5
"Puck", July 1, 1908, Volume LXIII, Number 1635.
Scene of joyous celebration including speeches, flag waving, and fireworks all about to be crushed by the gigantic thumb labeled "Special Privileges."
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard13 x 20.5
Scene of joyous celebration including speeches, flag waving, and fireworks all about to be crushed by the gigantic thumb labeled "Special Privileges." Black and white on reverse.
"Puck," July 1, 1908. Vol. LXIII, Number 1635.
Keppler1 boxHand-colored lithograph, 12 3/8 x 1912.5 x 19
William Jennings Bryan as the modern Narcissus gazing into a pool labeled "Democratic Sentiment."
"Puck," February 5, 1908, Volume LXIII, No. 1614.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard11.25 x 14.25
Nero-like reclining figure labeled "protected Monopoly" looks out over valley of factories while slain figures symbolizing labor lie at his feet. They hold slips of paper titled, "No Orders Till Prices Come Down, Cancelled Orders, and Consumer Balks." Signed: "Kep with apologies."
"Puck," January 23, 1911.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard19 1/2 x 12
The ark, labeled "Democratic Principles," is stuck on a mountain as the flood waters of "Republican Power" recede. The Democrat donkey flies to meet the ark, carrying a branch with represents Democratic victories, revolt against the tariff, and reduced Republican majorities. Many politicians on the ark reach out to the donkey, including Wilson, Shepard, Johnson, Harmon, Parker, Watterson, Haven, Core, Gaynor, Folk, Gray, Owen, Tillman, Clark, Mack, and Williams.
Keppler1 box18 x 25
Gigantic Figure of prohibitionist blocking road labeled "Temperance" whereon lies a closed canteen. To either side are roads labeled "Teetotalism" and "Excess."
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard17.5 x 17.75
Figure labeled "Murphy" forces classically garbed lady labeled "N.Y. State Democracy" out onto the street.
"Puck," January 18, 1911.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard9.75 x 11
Figures labeled "Labor" and "Railroads" bound together by cord of "Public Opinion" and trundled in cart labeled "arbitration" across tightrope over gorge. Cart is pushed by American Patriotic Figure whose tails are held by figure labeled "Seth Law."
"Puck," August 7, 1913.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard11.25 x 14.25
Uncle Sam leaning on magnet labeled "United States Protectorates" which he directs towards Central and South American nations symbolized by peasants. Cuba and Panama are already attached to the magnet while Nicaragua and Costa Rica are in midair. Colombia, Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras cling desperately to palm trees while Mexico explodes in background.
"Puck", July 28, 1913.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard22.5 x 14.25
A military surrender. Forces representing "Special Privilege" surrender to President Woodrow Wilson, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, and Representative Oscar W. Underwood. The Special Privilege lower flags labeled Railroad Rule, Lobbyism, Banking Trusts, Tariff Monopoly, and Food Adulteration.
Keppler1 box20 x 12.5
President Woodrow Wilson is depicted as a doctor delivering the Tariff Reform and Currency Reform legislation "babies" at the 63rd Congress. Representative Underwood brings cribs for the babies and Uncle Sam waits outside the door as the expectant father.
Keppler1 box20.25 x 12.75
Benjamin Harrison talking through a beaver skin hat and blowing the top out of it.
Dated September 13, 1892, signed Keppler, Jr.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink10.75 x 14
President Woodrow Wilson walks up a mountain representing "Administration Problems," carrying his Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall on his shoulders. Marshall waves a gavel and shouts through a megaphone labeled "four years' silence."
Keppler1 box13.75 x 22.5
Terrified man labeled "Consumer" is bound by cords labeled "Graft Tariff" to a rack at the bottom of a pit while a pendulum labeled "Cost of Living" swings closer and closer.
Dated: "Puck" May 10, 1909.
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard12 x 20
William Jennings Bryan as Orpheus strumming a lyre labeled "Harmony" attracting beasts labeled as contemporary political figures.
"Puck," August 5, 1908, volume LXIV, number 1640. Black and white version on reverse. Bryan was the Democratic Presidential Nominee versus Taft.
Keppler1 boxHand-colored lithograph, 21 1/4 x 14 1/821.25 x 14.25
A woman with a hat labeled "The West" rides a horse at a gallop and swings a bag labeled "Wilson."
Keppler1 box14 x 16
Representative Crisp as a judge hits Speaker Reed on the heat with a gavel labeled "Firmness," denting Reed's crown.
Keppler1 box17.5 x 19.5
Democratic leaders Wilson, Underwood, Harmon, Bryan, and Clark as wise men and shepherds in the nativity story, following a star representing the "Tariff Issue."
Keppler1 box24.25 x 16.75
Skeleton figure with crown and scythe jumping off train labeled "Steel Car".
Keppler1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard13 x 16
1 box
Contestants sling mud at each other upon a stage labeled "Columbus Mayorality Campaign" while an unamused voter watches from the foreground.
"Out in the Cold World" on reverse.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink19 x 23
1 box
Images of sports and activities at a water resort.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 16.25
1 box
Two figures labeled "Isolationist" and "Aid to Britain" fighting in basket atop GOP elephant.
February 3, 1941
Physical Description1 boxBlack pencil, 11 1/2 x 14 1/211.5 x 14.5
Two men fight in an area labeled "Section 10 Press," with a poster for Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign in the background.
Physical Description1 box19.5 x 18.5
1 box
An old man representing the Democratic Legislature runs after a rabbit representing a balanced budget, sprinkling it with salt (representing the proposed sales tax).
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15
1 box
President Gomez of Cuba is in a house on fire with rebellion. President Taft is depicted as a fire chief with a hose (intervention), and a member of his crew, representing Wall Street, is offering to turn on the water. The caption reads: "President Gomez - Please, Mr. Fireman, don't turn it on - I'm gettin' it out all right."
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 11.25
3 boxes
In the first frame, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt paces in a circle surrounded by phones and radios, question marks above his head. In the second frame, labeled "The Spirit of Roosevelt," he runs towards Chicago with a bag in each hand and a graduation hat on his head.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 18
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a fisherman, catching a large fish representing the American People. His bait is labeled "Artificial Bait Designed by the New Deal and Company - A Sucker is Born Every Minute." The lures he is using include Political Relief, Political Social Security, Political Farm Regulations, Political Propaganda, Political Wage-Hour Bills, and Political Strangulation of Business.
Physical Description1 box14 x 17.75
Several politicians, represented as angels, promise to keep the campaign clean while carrying brushes and bottles to smear each other. The politicians include Barkley, Michelson, Pepper, Minton, and Ickes.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 18.25
A figure representing Indiana broadcasts praise of Wendell Lewis Willkie, his son, over the radio to the rest of the country, which agrees to support the "youngster" in the presidential race.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 17.75
A figure representing "truth, wisdom, intelligence, calmness, candor, experience, courage, conscience and sincere love of country" tells Col. Charles A. Lindbergh that he deserves the respect of his country for his "sober opposition to war-hysteria and to meddling in foreign quarrels; patriotic advocacy of a thoroughly strong national defense for America."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 18.25
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt looking at the star of a third term. His coattails of "War Mongering" and "War Hysteria" fly up to reveal patches in his pants of the "New Deal's" record.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 18
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Paul V. McNutt, depicted as birds on the tree of the Democratic Party, candidates for President and Vice President in 1940. A man representing the American People takes aim with his slingshot (the election), using the 1940 vote as his ammunition, to take out both of them.
Physical Description1 box15 x 18.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt uses taxpayer's money to light a cigar (representing proposed new spending sprees), producing a cloud of smoke representing the "most tremendous national debt in history." A figure representing American Taxpayers voices his discontent. He is wearing a barrel because he is so poor, surrounded by the cigar ends from other spending sprees. Roosevelt ignores a paper with his resolution not to smoke in his economic promises every year from 1933 through 1939.
Physical Description1 box14 x 17.75
A man representing Indiana looks at several billboards supporting Wendell L. Willkie as the Republican candidate for President in 1940.
Physical Description1 box14 x 17.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tells "Auntie Democracy" that he doesn't want a third term, represented by an apple, but is licking his lips and the cores from 1932 and 1936 are on the ground.
Physical Description1 box14 x 17.5
A ventriloquist's dummy sits amid drums and signs supporting Roosevelt for another four years. The caption reads "And it will start as soon as the big voice of "Edgar Bergen" Roosevelt arrives."
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 18.25
Hungry children with empty plates sit at a table "reserved for deserving citizens now on relief" while a man representing "New Deal Government at Washington" feeds the food to dogs under the table representing waste, extravagance, and vote purchasing. A cook representing the American People holds a heavy plate of food representing the increasing tax burdens and says "I wouldn't kick about the serving, if all the food were only consumed by the family it's intended for!"
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 17.5
Memorial to Dr. Glenn Frank, with the gratitude of the nation.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 18
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a baseball player, sitting safe on third base.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 16
The 1940 presidential race as a football game. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is tackled by "The Big Seven-Year Line of New Deal Blundering" while Wendel Willkie runs with the ball ("American First" Principles) towards the "goal of Republican success in November."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 17.75
In the first frame, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt calmly rides a donkey representing the "New Deal Party" along the "Long, Long Seven-Year Trail of New Deal Blunders," carelessly throwing a lit cigarette butt representing his third term aspirations into the "dry grass of America's sacred ideals and traditions." In the second frame, the prairie is on fire with the nation's no third term sentiment, and the donkey runs in fear, dragging Roosevelt behind him.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 18
"The New Deal Government at Washington" is depicted as Ferdinand the Bull, happy sitting under a tree representing "huge spending sprees and waste" and looking forward to the 1940 election.
Physical Description1 box14 x 17.75
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt depicted as a baseball player before the 1940 presidential election. He keeps swinging at and missing the ball, representing the depression, because his bat (The New Deal) has a big hole in it from wasteful spending, meddling in business, and "crazy policies." The Republican elephant watches, laughing, while the Democrat donkey watches in tears.
Physical Description1 box15 x 18.5
Memorial for Amelia Earhart. Her name is written in the history book of aviation as her plane flies through the clouds.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 17
1 box
A girl shows her doll to a woman, while a boy plays with a toy train on the floor.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 19
A wealthy girl turns up her nose at a poor girl, who is carrying a baby on her back.
Physical Description1 box20 x 14.75
A young girl kneels to pray, while behind her a woman guides a younger girl towards an empty chair.
Physical Description1 box21.75 x 15.25
1 box
A woman sings before an audience. All that is visible of the audience is the back of their fancy hats.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 9.5
1 box
Characters from novels, including Alice in Wonderland and the lion and scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, run for an elevator.
Physical Description1 box22.25 x 5.75
1 box
A fireplace at the White House, the logs filled with questions that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has not answered during his "fireside chats," radio addresses to the nation. The questions are: Why a third term? What is "Aid short of war"? How about unemployment? How do we pay for everything? Where is your foreign policy taking us?
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 16.5
Uncle Sam accuses an idle factory machine, representing "partly idle industry," of slacking.
Physical Description1 box11 x 13.75
A man and woman read a sign that there will be "no more rubber for girdles or suspenders." She has a thicker waist because she has no girdle and he has his pants tied up with rope.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 11
The Treasury, represented as a chicken coop, is robbed by the man who is supposed to be protecting it. He gets $10,000 per year for each Congressman in a "pension grab."
Physical Description1 box11 x 13.75
Uncle Sam is stabbed in the back by traitorous acts of Nazi paid Americans.
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 13.75
A woman, representing "the hopefuls," cuddles up to a man representing the presidential nomination for 1940.
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 16.25
The "Good Ark G.O.P." has been built by the Republicans for the predicted flood of anti-New Deal votes. Three pairs of animals come running to get on the ark: Roosevelt Republicans, professional political job hunters, and bolting Democrats.
Physical Description1 box14 x 19
Congress, depicted as a woman washing dishes representing the Logan-Walter Bill and the Wagner Law Revision, is tempted away from her work by a man with flowers, representing the Fall Campaign.
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 16.25
An "off-the-reservation Congressman" is hit by the administration with a large bag representing the "use of WPA Billions in elections."
Physical Description1 box14 x 19
The GOP elephant is confused as it is ordered to travel in two different directions by men representing conservative Republicans and liberal Republicans.
Physical Description1 box19 x 14.25
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, depicted as a car mechanic, works on a car representing the New Deal machine. He pumps it full of oil, representing "$975,000,000 WPA funds which FDR wants to spend at his discretion."
Physical Description1 box19 x 14.25
The Republican elephant is split in half, with the front half supporting Willkie and the back half, representing GOP Congressmen, running away.
Physical Description1 box19 x 14.25
Two men, representing the "political profits," count unhatched eggs in a barn. One of the eggs, Maine, has hatched a baby Republican elephant.
Physical Description1 box19 x 14.25
2 boxes
John L. Lewis and the Republican elephant reach towards each other. Both have clothes pins on their noses.
Physical Description1 box18.25 x 19.5
The Republican elephant and Democrat donkey are both hitched to a wagon representing the Nation's welfare.
Physical Description1 box18 x 19.25
Caricature of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, smoking a cigarette.
Physical Description1 box18 x 19.25
The Republican elephant sits, afraid, at a table for the old guard in a smoke-filled room.
Physical Description1 box18.25 x 19.25
Presidential race as a boxing match. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as "The Champ," enters to ring to fight Republican candidate Wendell Willkie.
Physical Description1 box17.75 x 19
Presidential race as a boxing match. Republican candidate Wendell Willkie is on the ground, knocked out, after round one.
Physical Description1 box18 x 19.75
1 box
A Nazi soldier, representing Hitlerism, stands in a burning Europe with a body on the ground. From the United States, the arm of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt points at him accusingly.
Physical Description1 box13 x 13
An eagle, representing the United States, carries the President's message and a ship representing aid to Britain over the Atlantic.
Physical Description1 box13 x 13
A man representing Congress, examining his Adjournment Plans, is called back to work by a man representing workers implementing defence production plans.
Physical Description1 box13 x 13
Two men composing music on the same piano, backs to each other. One is writing a piece entitled "ASCAP" (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and the other "BMI" (Broadcast Music, Inc.). Both of them are performing rights organizations.
Physical Description1 box13 x 13
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a grave at night, carrying a shovel and pick ax, is surprised by a ghostly question mark representing the "Third Term Tradition."
Physical Description1 box13 x 13
1 box
Three African tribesmen with spears carry a white man from National Geographic tied to a pole.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 10.25
A man writes on a typewriter, wearing only his boxer shorts and sitting on a box of beans. Two women talk in the doorway to the room, commenting that he is working on stark realism.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11
1 box
President Woodrow Wilson golfing, hitting the ball over the obstacles of the Mexican situation, Wall Street opposition, and the Senate and landing it on the green (prosperity).
Macauley1 box10 x 14
1 box
Figures representing Japan and the United States run a hurdles race. The hurdles start short and get taller for Japan, with the expanding power of the U.S. The hurdles start tall and get shorter for U.S., starting with the need to build the war machine and cross the ocean and ending with the expended strength of Japan. Japan is confident of winning but does not see that his hurdles will get taller at the end of the race.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
Hitler is trying to paste Nazi wallpaper on the ceiling, standing on scaffolding representing the Northern, Central, and Southern fronts. However, it is not sticking well on Leningrad, Moscow, Crimea, or the conquered countries.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.25
Several Democratic politicians thumb their noses at a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the father of the Democratic Party. The politicians include Hopkins, Ickey, Perkins, Wallace, Boss Kelly, Boss hague, and "Chi" Supt. of Sewers Garry.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
1940 presidential race as a football game. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the quarterback, with a front line made up of Wally and the hatchet men. Republican candidate Wendell Willkie breaks through the line and chases Roosevelt, who yells that he needs to go inspect his defenses.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
A large figure representing Italy tries to catch a tiny figure representing Greece in a pair of pliers, but Greece is able to grab the ends and catch Italy instead.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
Uncle Sam as a pony express rider, coming to the 1940 election station where he can change horses. He is riding a tired horse (Roosevelt and the New Deal), and a fresh horse (Willkie administration) is waiting. A man, Ickey, cautions Uncle Sam not to change to an inexperienced horse as there are dangerous years ahead.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
1 box
Two men, representing the Republican and Democrat parties, ride to meet President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, depicted as the Egyptian Sphinx, to ask the riddle about if he intends to run for a third term.
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 13.25
A woman, representing a third term for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pulls the petals off a daisy chanting "he loves me, he loves me not" to determine if he will run a third time.
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 11.75
1 box
A large soldier with a bloody sword representing Japan drinks from a bottle of poison labeled "Manila Temporary Gains." The skeletal figure of death watches him.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 15.25
An old man, representing 1940, passes on the world to a startled baby representing 1941. 1940 is bandaged and his robe is full of bullet holes. The world has gun barrels pointing all around it.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 14.5
Hitler puts on the "boot" of Italy, telling a bandaged Mussolini "If you can't fill 'em no more - I can."
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 14.25
A tiny, battered Mussolini stands before Hitler, who says "My! How you have shrunk since the last time we met!! What's happened to you?"
Physical Description1 box15 x 15.25
A woman representing France is crushed under a Nazi boot in field of bones. Planes drop pieces of paper announcing that "The Yanks are Coming," causing her to smile.
Physical Description1 box15 x 15.25
1 box
The American Eagle orders a vulture representing pro-Nazi activities to leave the United States.
Physical Description1 box11 x 11.75
The Democrat donkey fishes in a lake representing the campaign using a pole of New Deal hopes. However, he has hooked a frog of opposition to a third term instead.
Physical Description1 box11 x 11.75
The GOP Republican elephant eats a hearty meal at the campaign table made up of Vital Issues from Willkie's Coffeyville Address and drinks a cup of coffee "pep." With that energy, he says "Bring on your donkey! - Bring on a couple of donkeys!!"
Physical Description1 box11 x 11.75
The Italy boot, with Nazi spurs. The wounds from Italian reverses in Greece and Africa are bound with a bandage of Nazi victories.
Physical Description1 box11 x 11.75
The Republican elephant and Democrat donkey walk behind Uncle Sam. He carries the platforms of both parties, both of which include adequate national defense.
Physical Description1 box11 x 11.75
An angry Uncle Sam, holding a rifle representing the war effort, strangles a rat representing Japan next to a cemetery with the fallen heroes of Bataan and Corregidor.
Physical Description1 box12 x 13.5
The Grim Reaper, representing the Tuberculosis Toll in Delaware, urges people not to by Christmas Seals for his sake.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 12.75
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is tied to a chair representing the Presidency for a third term by New Dealers and Ickes.
Physical Description1 box11 x 11.5
Charles W. Hardesty of Delaware fishes in a lake of Works Relief Funds for a fish of $10,000,000 or more for his state.
Physical Description1 box17 x 20
1 box
Caricature of an African American man in a suit and top hat, asking for gin.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 22.5
2 boxes
President Woodrow Wilson hypnotises Uncle Sam to make him believe that the Mexican policy is working, that arbitration only applies some of the time, and that military preparations are adequate.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 17
President Woodrow Wilson talks with former governor Cox about the nice day and the White House. The conversation gets tense when Cox asks about unemployment in Washington, which Wilson says is a touchy subject.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 16.75
President Woodrow Wilson seated at a long table with 10 men. The heads of the men are replaced by numbers.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 8.75
President Woodrow Wilson writes a generic letter to several countries (Mexico, England, Germany, France, Ireland, or Patagonia) condemning them for "rudeness" and promising a slap on the wrist if it does not stop. He also writes not to take the note too seriously, unless he changes his mind.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 19
Uncle Sam arrives at the White House, leading a bandaged Democrat donkey which is carrying the unconscious figures of the Wilson Administration and the Wilson League.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 17.75
The Democrat donkey runs from Wilson enthusiasm, looking behind and not seeing the barbed wire of foreign entanglements in front of him. These entanglements are the result of following the Wilson League way.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 15.25
Two long rows of men wait to be called by President Woodrow Wilson to serve in his administration.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 15.5
In the first frame, Woodrow Wilson tells the publicity bureau that he will be going to bed at nine o'clock election night. The New Jersey State House, shaped like an octopus, is in the background. In the second frame, Wilson's staff has been buried by the Roosevelt Landslide and Wilson is carried off to a hospital bed.
Physical Description1 box14 x 17
Six frames of school scenes with a progressively older student. In each, Woodrow Wilson is the teacher or professor, disciplining the student.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 22.5
President Woodrow Wilson as a school boy with his first report card. He got an "E" in all subjects: tariff, currency, income tax, civil service, appointments, suffrage, canal tolls, foreign affairs, tact, industry, deportment, and motives.
Physical Description1 box7 x 5
In the first frame, Woodrow Wilson, as a baseball player, is at bat against pitcher Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt gets strike one while Wilson declares he will disregard him. In the second frame, "modest heroes home from the border" are hugged by a woman representing Chicago.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 19.25
A crowd of men, delegates from several states, raise a hand to cheer Taft, but all are frowning, a few check their watches, and one is asleep.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 17.5
The G.O.P. Republican Convention. In frame one, Democrats (Wilson, McAdoo, Palmer, Edwards, and Cox) wait outside the convention hall. In frame two, delegates within the convention wait outside the platform committee room. And in frame three, the candidates (including Theodore Roosevelt) and the general public wait outside the convention hall.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 20
In the "old style method" the presidential message is read by a clerk and Congress is sparsely attended and no one is paying attention. In the "modern Wilsonian method" Wilson delivers his own message, Congress is full and everyone pays attention.
Physical Description1 box7.25 x 9
President Woodrow Wilson, leaving a room full of "southern Democrats in government jobs," exclaims "How shocking! The Republicans are raising the issue of sectionalism!"
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 15.75
A man lectures to a full house at the opera.
Physical Description1 box20 x 15
President Woodrow Wilson looks at two fortresses representing the Republican Convention and Progressive Convention.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 19
President Woodrow Wilson calls the convention to order over the phone. The Democrat donkey offers flowers to the Bull Moose Progressive Party. The Republican elephant sees this angrily.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 18
Justice Hughes leaves the Supreme Court to run for President. Images of many prominent previous Republican presidential candidates with beards are along the top. In the corner, Theodore Roosevelt promises Uncle Sam that he will not run on a third party ticket.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 14.75
President Woodrow Wilson calls the Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico militia to rise and defend themselves along the Mexican border. Uncle Sam tries to draw Wilson's attention to the Democratic Congress, which is reaching into the pork barrel behind the President's back while ignoring and stepping on preparedness measures. Wilson's style is depicted as "the harsh word and the small stick."
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 18
President Woodrow Wilson shouts across the Atlantic to stop Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany from attacking Great Britain with a U-Boat submarine, and consequently American commerce interests, in the name of humanity. Behind him is "5 Years of Mexican Chaos and Inhumanity." Figures representing bandits and revolutionists sit on a pile of rubble which is crushing both Americans and the Mexican people.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 22.5
President Woodrow Wilson depicted as the State's Attorney argues a case before Congress (the judge). Uncle Sam is the plaintiff and Germany is the defendant. Germany is charged with 65 counts of assualt with a deadly weapon. A submarine sits on the table next to the figure representing Germany.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 19.75
President Woodrow Wilson (on a horse, with a flag reading "Humanity in God We Trust") and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (in a car representing German Submarine Methods and a flag reading "Self Preservation Gott Mit Umns") race towards each other on a road labeled war, heading for a collision. They are approaching an intersection with a road labeled peace. Christ, on the cross, is at the intersection.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21
President Woodrow Wilson looks across the Atlantic, holding a stick of unpreparedness and a notice that American lives must not be jeopardized in the war zone by German submarines. He sees a ship with American's on board pull into a harbor in the war zone, facing mines, submarines, and fighting figures representing the blockade.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 16.5
In the first frame, Asquith, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, is attacked by the army aristocracy and a lion. President Woodrow Wilson comments that he should have pursued a policy of watchful waiting rather than ordering the troops into Ulster. In the second frame, Pancho Villa rests after chasing the federal army from Torreon. Wilson comments that he should follow up on his advantage rather than adopting a policy of watchful waiting.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 18.25
Pancho Villa, on a stage behind the curtain for a production of the Battle of Torreon. His audience, made up of world leaders, is impatient for him to begin but he tells them to wait. At the same time, a Mexican general raises funds from Mexican millionaires to aid the president.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 20.5
President Woodrow Wilson as a school teacher. He tells his students, the Senate and the House, that they have worked hard for a year and can have a vacation as soon as they pass the anti-trust bills. Their hopes for vacation are dashed and they complain that they will be there all summer.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 14.75
President Woodrow Wilson as a doctor performing surgery, cutting a man representing the principle of arbitration in half. Wilson explains to a shocked Uncle Sam that he thinks 50% of arbitration is enough and that the operation pleases the children, who represent the labor vote.
Physical Description1 box15 x 19.5
President Woodrow Wilson gives repeated orders to Mexican general and president Huerta, which are ignored, that Huerta should not run for president, that the Congress was elected illegally, that he should salute the American flag he insulted, and that cargo of arms and ammunition on the ship Ypiranga must not be landed. The orders are watched by the leaders of England, France, Germany, and Japan, who are initially alarmed but fear no consequences by the end.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 20
President Woodrow Wilson sweeps a dog representing Mexican disorder under a bed with a lot of trash. The dog comes back out with several puppies. Wilson tries to be kind to them but is bitten by the mother and chases them back under the bed.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 12.75
Scenes of Woodrow Wilson: getting a donkey to do tricks, his suprise at receiving the Democratic nomination for president, and receiving a "teacher of the world" medal from Senator Ollie James.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 12.5
Three frames of different people reading the same newspaper. Woodrow Wilson is unhappy to see an article on Hughes acceptance speech of the Republican nomination, as Hughes criticized Wilson's Mexico policy and there has been more death on the border. The Kaiser is unhappy because the articles are all about German loses. And an unidentified man enjoys the weather section, finding the news to be much more interesting than usual.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 17
Titles and scenes from three "movies" that show the failures of President Woodrow Wilson: American Prosperity is credited to the war rather than Wilson, Huerta and the Kaiser are credited with keeping the U.S. out of the war rather than Wilson, and the unresolved unrest in Mexico.
Physical Description1 box15 x 17
President Woodrow Wilson's directing of the country is depicted as a train that keeps running into obstacles as he tries to take the easiest and safest way. The obstacles include the wheat shortage, rail strike threat, allies' blacklist, Villa, strict accountability, German submarine crisis no. 1, British mails seizers, Ypirange arms shipment, flag salute, and Huerta defiance.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 20
President Woodrow Wilson as the old woman who lived in a shoe, with many fighting children representing America's problems: submarine crisis, the Lusitania, British blacklist, Mexican conditions, flag salute fiasco, U.S. mails interference, unpreparedness conditions, and the Japanese crisis. An image above asks which symbol do you prefer: the Eagle ("first be sure you're right and then go ahead") or the crawfish (first be sure you write and then go ahead and write some more"). And image below shows that the Underwood Tariff hurt American industry but the war traffic has stimulated it, and wages have gone up since the war began but the purchasing power of the dollar has shrunk.
Physical Description1 box14 x 18.25
President Woodrow Wilson is in the jury box, deciding if beer will be prohibited or not. Uncle Sam waits for his decision, nervous.
Physical Description1 box14 x 20
When President Woodrow Wilson and his party are in the public eye, they are gentlemen in a carriage greeting the crowd. When unobserved, the party is riding military guns.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 20
Woodrow Wilson tries to coax a performer, representing Italy, onto the stage as the audience gets angry, saying that the whole world is waiting. But Italy, encouraged by Lloyd George, will not until he gets what he wants.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 17
A set of large footprints move in the direction of no entangling alliances for the United States. President Woodrow Wilson walks in the opposite directions of the tracks with legislation for Article X and entangling alliances under his arm.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 15.5
President Woodrow Wilson tries to get Uncles Sam to sign a contract for the League of Nations. Uncle Sam is hesitant, noting that the U.S. furnishes all the assets and Europe all the liabilities. Newspapers on the floor indicate that there is trouble in Germany, the Balkans, and Asia Minor.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 18.25
Woodrow Wilson insists that Italy must not have Fiume. In response, crowds in Italy destroy the "Via President Wilson" and cheer on a speaker denouncing him.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 18.75
1 box
William Jennings Bryan boxes with a monkey before a huge crowd of spectators. The cartoon refers to Bryan's attacks on evolution.
Physical Description1 box17 x 14
1 box
A large hand, representing taxpayers, draws a line around a shocked small man representing a budget building, with an appropriations bill under his arm, and orders him to stay within the line. The line represents income.
Physical Description1 box11 x 14.25
1 box
Mussolini jumps out of a warship about to be swamped by a wave representing Greece.
Physical Description1 box10 x 14
German troops have run over a woman representing France in a tank and are driving off. Mussolini stands over her with a bloody sword.
Physical Description1 box10 x 13.75
1 box
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speeds through Connecticut on the "Third-Term Special" train, using a telescope to see the area.
Physical Description1 box19.75 x 24.75
Wendell Willkie rides triumphantly on the GOP Republican elephant, with Governor Baldwin leading him.
Physical Description1 box20 x 24.75
A man, W.B.Y., tries to jump over barrels representing years for a $2,100,000 Bond Issue (1942-1953), but at the end of the barrels is a hole representing deferred payments.
Physical Description1 box24.75 x 20
1 box
Uncle Sam removes a smiling mask to reveal a rat, representing Japan wanting war. U.S. warships with "Remember Hawaii" on their guns invade.
Physical Description1 box11 x 14
Several scenes related to the production of navy ships being behind schedules. Men in the navy try to encourage workers to do their share.
Physical Description1 box11 x 14
Santa Claus, with a bag of National Defense instead of toys, fills the stockings of the Air Force with a plane, Army with a soldier, and Navy with a boat. Also visible in his bag are men representing the draft, reserves, and national guard.
Physical Description1 box11 x 14
Various scenes relating sporting events to the war.
Physical Description1 box14 x 17.25
1 box
Two boats are at the dock of "8 long years," ready to cross the lake of "present crisis" to arrive at "peace and prosperity." One boat is a power boat in good condition named "Super Special" and piloted by Wendell Willkie. The other is a leaking rowboat named "New Deal" piloted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 10.5
Two columns of the White House have been damaged by the first and second term. A third column is the "last remaining guarantee of American Democracy." A man uses "G.O.P. Life-Saver Spray" to kill New Deal "bugs" heading for the third column.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 12.25
3 boxes
Uncle Sam contemplating problem on chalkboard that looks as follows: T.R. (Teddy Roosevelt) + ME = I, I + Presidency = X, X = ?.
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink with white tempera, 15 3/4 x 1115.75 x 11
A man in a top hat.
Nankivell1 box6.5 x 13.75
A man leaves a U.S. ship that has arrived in another country (the flag includes the British flag) with a bag of money in each hand.
Physical Description1 item
A man holding a bouquet looks at a boy sitting in a field next to similar flowers.
Nankivell1 box9 x 12.75
A man sits at a desk, writing with a quill pen.
Nankivell1 box11.75 x 14.25
A man seated, wearing a laurel wreath, holding a scroll in one hand and a book in the other.
Nankivell1 box10.25 x 17
A man, R.R.
Nankivell1 box10 x 13.25
Statue of Charles Schwab at the crossroads of four streets named for him.
Nankivell1 box8 x 14.75
A fat man with a gavel.
Nankivell1 box10 x 18.75
Beautiful young woman and a crowned gentleman greeting money bag on table. The bag is labeled "Papa's money." On back: Three ladies walking on a street.
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink20 x 17
Several men dressed as villains with rapiers, waiting for innocent Miss Democracy as she comes down the stairs. The men are Wilson, Harmon, Dix, Gaynor, Clark, Underwood, and Bryan.
Nankivell1 box23.5 x 18.5
Side one: Well-to-do family scene on tennis court. Side two: In a locker room, a man rubs "Esopus Oil" on the leg of another man. In the background is a "$40,000,000 Safe and Sane".
Nankivell1 boxTwo-sided: pen and ink, lithograph, 17 1/2 x 20 3/417.75 x 20.25
"Puck," October 1, 1903
Old couple, man fat, wife lean, he is bringing dessert in, she graciously refuses.
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink20.5 x 16.75
A man holds a bag labeled "Paper Trust."
Nankivell1 box10.75 x 15.75
Cleveland being brought in over city by a stork.
"Puck," May 27, 1908
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink21 x 27
Confrontation of two gentlemen in front hall of great house.
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink30 x 20.5
A confused man in a suit stands among the stumps of several trees, counting on his fingers. In the background, anther man looks out the window of his log cabin.
Nankivell1 box10 x 15
A man shovels coal and laughs.
Nankivell1 box10 x 12
Judge George Gray of Delaware as ripe peach suspended over basket, presumably referring to some political nomination in the wind.
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink11.5 x 16.75
Cleveland and Bayard battering "Republican Wall" with the ram of "Sound Democratic Principles."
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink10 x 15.75
A man reads from a very large book titled "Donts or How to be a Gentleman and a Governor."
Nankivell1 box14.5 x 11
A man wearing a crown, in fancy dress with a rapier in both hands.
Nankivell1 box7.75 x 16.75
A man with a very large nose, wearing a monocle.
Nankivell1 box13.5 x 22
A balding man holds a tape measure.
Nankivell1 box12 x 22
A man with a key in one hand and his fist on a capitol building.
Nankivell1 box9 x 16
An old man in a sailor suit, with Electra on his hat, dances a jig while a young boy watches surprised.
Nankivell1 box9.5 x 17
A black man with a simple sword. Next to him is a fancy vest and sword that are the reward "for a good boy."
Nankivell1 box13.25 x 22
A man with a large white beard.
Nankivell1 box13 x 21.5
A fat young man, thumbs in his fancy vest.
Nankivell1 box13.75 x 22
A balding man with a high collar pulls wires loose from a radio.
Nankivell1 box13.25 x 22.75
A man with wild hair and glasses.
Nankivell1 box14 x 24
A man with a large bow tie.
Nankivell1 box13 x 22.5
A man with a winged lion on his hat, a very large mustache, and an arm full of package from Paris.
Nankivell1 box15.25 x 23
A younger man with a large head.
Nankivell1 box13 x 22.5
A man pointing to a New York train cars moving in a circle labeled "perpetual motion."
Nankivell1 box14 x 22.5
A man pushes open the U.S. Senate door.
Nankivell1 box13.75 x 21.25
A man with a large mustache and a book under his arm.
Nankivell1 box17.25 x 24
A man hiding indictments behind his back.
Nankivell1 box14.75 x 23
A man opening declined invitations from many lords and ladies.
Nankivell1 box13.25 x 22.25
A determined man marches along the Nicaragua Canal.
Nankivell1 box14.5 x 23
A man with a large beard who has just chopped down a pole.
Nankivell1 box13.5 x 23
Shadow of "Archboldism" floating over floor of Congress.
"Puck," January 13, 1909
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink with white tempera, 14 x 16 3/414.25 x 17
Black showbusiness couple.
"Puck," May 21, 1909
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink with blue pencil12.75 x 19
A man holding a gavel for the New York City Council.
Nankivell1 box14.25 x 23
A man shaped like an ox. There is a Standard Oil can on one horn and a rag with dollar signs on the other.
Nankivell1 box14 x 15.25
A man shaped like an ostrich, with two other copies of his head as eggs.
Nankivell1 box11 x 12.25
A man depicted as a bird.
Nankivell1 box14 x 15.25
Politicians Parker, William Jennings Bryan, Gray, and Johnson set off fireworks on the Fourth of July.
"Puck," June 16, 1908
Nankivell1 boxPen and ink20 x 28
1 box
Scenes of problems in the country painted as blessings: the American tin industry, prohibition, two escaped corrupt politicians, the large number of pensioners, "Maggie Murphy's Home" and the number of candidates for political office. Also includes the genuine blessings of "good old customs" (a couple meeting, getting married, and having a baby) and that the country is safe.
Physical Description1 box20 x 13.25
Scenes of the failure of a livery stable, saloon, and American tailors, and of the success of Hustler's Magazine.
Physical Description1 box16 x 21.75
"Puck's" cherubic symbol out and about in the world. Six scenes including last of retreat back into "Puck Offices."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink26.75 x 17.5
Republican politician James G. Blaine atop chimney with numerous lightening rods attached to him to attract nearby bolts of "Republican Presidential Nomination." the rods include "vigorous foreign policy," "reciprocity," and several references to his grandfather.
"Puck," August 1, 1894.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink15.75 x 17.25
1 box
Wendell Willkie as a cowboy, branding the Democrat donkey with a Nazi swastika and condemning the party machine. He also inadvertently brands the Republican elephant, his own party, as well.
Physical Description1 box10 x 12.5
The Democrat donkey as the Trojan horse entering the Republican Camp, with Republican candidate Wendell Willkie emerging from inside with "bungling campaign tactics."
Physical Description1 box10.25 x 12.25
A man in a chauffeur uniform tries to convince Wendell Willkie that he needs a regular driver. His current driver, Johnie Q Willkie Fan, looks on in dismay, sitting in the car 'Willkie Boom."
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 12.25
Wendell Willkie "power personality" is depicted as a large lamp post, but his campaign as a tiny candle.
Physical Description1 box9.5 x 12.75
A crowd of people, representing popular demand for Wendell Willkie, parachute onto "the tight little island of Boss Control," possibly New York City.
Physical Description1 box10.5 x 12
The Republican elephant puffs from his trunk both a hot candidate and a cold platform at the G.O.P. convention.
Physical Description1 box10.5 x 12
The 1940 Chicago Democratic Convention, depicted as an empty 3-ring circus tent.
Physical Description1 box11 x 13
Uncle Sam smiles and listens to the sounds coming from Elwood, Indiana.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 12.25
A man, representing the election year, looks at the capitol. He has defense plans under his arm and a bottle of "old bust-head politics" in his hands.
Physical Description1 box10.5 x 13
The G.O.P., represented as a chicken with elephant legs, sits on a nest representing the Republican Philadelphian Convention and says "I've just got to lay an egg!"
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 12.75
A Congressman with two personalities. The Patriotic side wants to pass the draft bill, while the Political side cautions himself to wait until after the election.
Physical Description1 box10.25 x 12.5
A woman, representing "inert leadership" is distracted by the political convention and political ballyhoo. She ignores her war knitting. A newspaper has the headline "England Stands Alone."
Physical Description1 box10.75 x 12
The G.O.P. Republican elephant trapped in barbed wire representing their defense record.
Physical Description1 box10.5 x 12
Uncle Sam holds onto the tail of an angry bull representing the unprotected watershed of the Mississippi River.
Physical Description1 box15 x 20.5
Wendell Willkie as a football player running in a circle, gaining yards with "Anti-F.D.R. Tirade" but losing the same number with "New Deal Endorsement." The Republican elephant watches from the stands, confused.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 12
The Republican elephant and Democrat donkey work together to forge a sword (Defense) on an anvil representing unity.
Physical Description1 box10.25 x 12
Wendell Willkie as a trapeze artist, swinging between several trapezes representing issues: utilities, Wallace farm plan, lower taxes, Lewis support, more aid for Britain, more foreign trade, Girdler support, Argentine beef, isolation, more relief, and old G.O.P. farm aid. The Republican elephant, chained to a "Wall Street Peg," watches, impressed.
Physical Description1 box10.5 x 11.5
A line of sheep, representing the union labor movement. About a quarter of the sheep are black. Three of the black sheep are labeled: unworthy leader, racketeer leader, and selfish leader.
Physical Description1 box11.75 x 13.5
The Republican elephant wearing a paper hat representing the Anti-Third Term Press fires a pop gun representing the Third Term Issue. Behind him, tanks and airplanes represent the big issues of today.
Physical Description1 box10.25 x 12
Wendell Willkie, Republican presidential candidate, says he will share the "New Deal Platform" with the President (Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
Dewey rides on the Republican elephant's trunk, with the elephant having trouble keeping the pace.
Physical Description1 box11.75 x 13.5
Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie rides four horses at once on an "anti-third term" road. The horses representing Aid to Britain, Wall Street, C.I.O. Lewis,a nd Isolation.
Physical Description1 box10.25 x 12.5
1 box
Uncle Sam and another figure, possibly Great Britain, sign a reciprocal trade agreement, while soldiers representing the German-Italy-Japan Pact march in the background.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 13.75
A Nazi makes a bloody hand print, representing the murder of hostages, in a book on the New Order in France.
Physical Description1 box18 x 15.5
Goebbels, Von Ribbentrop, and Hitler as three witches making a poison in a cauldron representing Yugoslavia.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 14.75
Uncle Sam stands on a low rock, about to be flooded, and reaches for higher ground. There are progressively higher rocks representing strategic bases, U.S.-Canadian joint defense, and destroyer help to Britain.
Physical Description1 box18.75 x 15.5
Halifax, depicted as the anti-Christ, slays a man representing liberty and breaks the Christian cross to make it into a Nazi swastika.
Physical Description1 box18.75 x 15
Hitler stands on the end of a gun barrel representing the Axis, preparing to stab the world with his sword. Molotoff stands with him, wringing his hands.
Physical Description1 box18.25 x 15
The Hudson County Poll Books, smoking with scandal, are tied to the tail of the Democrat donkey.
Physical Description1 box18.5 x 15.25
A man injects "constructive opposition program" into the back of a smiling Republican elephant.
Physical Description1 box18.5 x 15.25
A man with a sword stands on a pedestal with his foot on top of burning poll books. An inscription on the pedestal reads "Democratic Candidate for Governor Cannot be Too Strong. In Condemnation of Fraud and Corruption in the Conduct of Elections."
Physical Description1 box18.75 x 14.5
A man representing Labor and a man representing management each put a cat into a large bag labeled "Kilkenny Cat Stuff."
Physical Description1 box17.75 x 15.5
The presidential race between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie. Roosevelt is the Democrat donkey, running on stilts with his nose in the air (a "high horse") as a "non-political" candidate. Willkie is the Republican elephant, running along the ground as a "strictly political" candidate.
Physical Description1 box18.5 x 15.25
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and another man in Roman togas. The other man pulls the "third term" laurel wreath from Roosevelt's head.
Physical Description1 box18 x 15.25
A man representing the West holds a small politician in his hand about to start a 7200 mile campaign tour.
Physical Description1 box18.75 x 15
A donkey, representing the Democratic National Committee listens to a gramophone playing "third term agitation," but does not understand it.
Physical Description1 box18 x 15.25
1 box
A man and woman speak together at a desk. The caption reads: Can't the case of Van Swell against Van Swell be put off? I'm afraid not my dear. Are you -er- their daughter? No. I'm the correspondent and if the case is tried now, the papers won't be able to give us any space!
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.75
1 box
A boy being kept after school by his teacher. He asks the teacher to tell his chauffeur that he will have to wait.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 16.25
1 box
Black kettle labeled "Albany Legislature" and black pot labeled "Insurance Corruption" floating down stream of Graft together.
"Puck," July 26, 1905
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink17.5 x 18
1 box
Adolph Hitler in a wizard robe and hat, Nazi swastika's circling his head and a book entitled "Mein Kampf" in his hand. The caption reads: Astrological Adolf. Your cosmic punch is on der fritz, your Russian hunch der bunk, you yell vot's happened to mein Blitz? Adolph - you're plain hunch drunk!
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
Adolph Hitler as a teacher at the Nazi War College, trying to get a confused man to understand the Blitz Krieg Technique.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
Japanese Emperor Hirohito with a smoking foot caused by the Philippines.
Physical Description1 box11 x 17
Abraham Lincoln, standing at Pearl Harbor, captioned with portions of his Gettysburg Address.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
A starving, exhausting horse representing the farm relief problem is hitched outside of the "General Campaign Issues Store."
Physical Description1 box15.25 x 20.5
"Papa New Deal" looks at triplets representing 1932, 1936, and 1940 and dreams of quadruplets, quintuples, and sextuplets. He says "I'll Make Papa Kionne Look Like a Piker!"
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15
A woman, representing New Deal bureaucracy, wants to teach Uncle Sam the three step. His feet hurt from shoes representing 1932 and 1936.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has Ickes, city bosses, and Wallace as puppets on strings and makes them dance.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
A skeleton pours wine made in 1941 into bottles from 1917 and 1918.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
Two fat straw men fight each other with wooden swords.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
1 box
Franklin Delano Roosevelt points to Japan on a globe with his pencil. The glob has "Global War" written over Russia.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 22.25
Republican candidate Wendell Willkie jumps onto the Franklin Delano Roosevelt bandwagon instead. The G.O.P. bandwagon is crashed in the background.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 22.25
A soldier representing Japan tries to close a gate over the Pacific sea lanes, while a man representing Great Britain stands in Singapore, holding it open so that ships can get through.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 22.25
1 box
William Randolph Hearst as a puppeteer causes Champt Clark and Brisbane to sling mudd at another man.
Physical Description1 box15.75 x 21
1 box
The Democrat Party donkey and Republican Party elephant meet each other looking for loopholes in the Hatch Act regulating national political activities.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
The Republican Party elephant knocks on the door of Wendell Willkie's campaign headquarters with a newspaper announcing that Willkie is a liberal democrat and supports the New Deal behind his back.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
The Republican Party elephant balances on an electrical wire, holding a pole to try to keep its balance. On one end of the pole is Senator McNary, who believes the government should control electrical power (public ownership). On the other end of the pole is Wendell Willkie and the Power Trust, who believe it should be privately owned.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15
A black cat representing the private vs. public power issue stands at the foot of a bed where Wendell Willkie, Senator McNary, and the Power Trust are sleeping.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
The Republican Party elephant stands on the end of a diving board representing the foreign policy plank, afraid to jump into the waters of popular sentiment.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
A witch flies over a town with the banner "Willkie or Ruin" attached to her broomstick.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
Compares the offices of the President of the United States (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and the President of the Commonwealth Southern Corp (Wendell Willkie). Roosevelt's office is full of books of successful New Deal and relief programs. Willkie's office has a trash can filled with tape or wires.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
Uncle Sam writes on a casualty list from Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, and Manila "Resolved - That These Shall be Avenged!"
Physical Description1 box15 x 20
Wendell Willkie runs with a sign reading "Only I Can Do Better," thinking he is ahead but in truth he is running on the "coattails" of the New Deal.
Physical Description1 box11 x 15.25
Papers representing the facts are thrown out of the Wendell Willkie train as excess baggage.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 5
Wendell Willkie, standing on top of a giant I, pledges to bring about a new world on his own. Figures representing Congress, the people, and the Republican party say together "I guess we don't figure in his plans?"
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.5
Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito with their Axis plans for remaking the world are surprised to see Wendell Willkie's claim that he will bring a new world.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.25
The Republican Party elephant as a hobo watches the "Wendell Willkie Campaign Tour Special" fly by. A newspaper indicates that Willkie has switched from Tammany Democrat to a Liberal Democrat and supports the New Deal.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.25
1 box
Paris Exposition and Chicago World's Fair take backseat to Pan American Exposition.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with blue pencil24.75 x 17.75
Three drunken Yalies wave down the street as elder man and grinning young man look on.
"Puck," November 20, 1897.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink16.25 x 14.25
Tammany tiger in Salvationist clothes spreads "City Reform War Cry" in bars.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with blue pencil25 x 17
Wide-eyed owl on branch.
"Puck," July 12, 1904.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink10.75 x 14.75
Metamorphosis in five panels of boy turning into a green apple after eating one.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink21.75 x 11.25
Human-faced meteorite streaks across night sky as family rushes from farmhouse.
"Puck," May 12, 1908.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink25 x 14
1 box
A baseball cartoon. The Indians team is represented as a boat, captained by Fohl, which is sinking due to damage caused by a storm and a Yankees shark.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 13.75
1 box
Three women archers shoot at a target, all hitting the bull's eye. A cherub watches and winks.
Physical Description1 box17.75 x 15.25
1 box
Uncle Sam, with a note of Equal Rights to All Nations, interrupts two men sitting in Europe, one holding the "Yap Mandate Grab" and the other the "Mesopotamian Oil Grab Mandate."
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14
A beaten man representing Germany is sentenced in an international peace court by President Clemenceau and ordered to surrender land, pay five billion dollars, and give up his army and navy.
Physical Description1 box17.5
Events expected in 1932: Japan will pursue Manchuria, the U.S. presidential campaign (Ritchie, Baker, Roosevelt, and Al Smith), and Europe will expect further money from the U.S.
Physical Description1 box11.75 x 16
Several scenes about the inconvenient weight of the silver dollar.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.5
Several scenes of presidential candidate Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking to his supporters in New York and Boston, criticizing the Republican Party and his opponent Herbert Hoover.
Physical Description1 box11.75 x 15.5
President Woodrow Wilson, holding a stick representing the Army and Navy, throws Huerta out of Mexico.
Physical Description1 box11 x 13.5
President Woodrow Wilson holds a School of Etiquette to convince former presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt to stop criticizing him. Taft and Roosevelt fight initially but by the end sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow."
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15
Uncle Sam plays the drums and brings a man representing Congress running to sign President Woodrow Wilson's U.S. Rights Recruits document. William Jennings Bryan watches, surprised, from behind a wall.
Physical Description1 box12 x 14.25
President Woodrow Wilson is supported by former presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt after the resignation of Wilson's secretary of state William Jennings Bryan.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 13.5
Uncle Sam lies sick in bed (representing Law and Order) after drinking bottles of crooked enforcement, poison stills, rum bootlegging fleets and court in-decisions. President Woodrow Wilson prescribes that he drink light wines and beer instead.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.5
Einstein solves several policy and social problems: U.S. taxation, solar powered cars, bringing the dollar back to normalcy, tobaccoless smoke, and foodless meals.
Physical Description1 box12 x 14.25
Several images of Wilson as Governor of New Jersey.
Physical Description1 box11 x 12.5
Scenes of President Woodrow Wilson being distracted from his duties by his new grandson: writing fewer messages to Congress, interrupting peace conferences to attend to the child, and telling stories about Sayre during cabinet meetings.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 16
A man begs for the chance to campaign for president but is denied. Flyers for Hughes and Wilson are on the ground.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 11
Albert Einstein coming to Boston and finding his theories do not apply to daily social life.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 13.75
President Woodrow Wilson and his 14 Points of Peace is saluted by ships from several countries.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.5
President Woodrow Wilson teaching his Fourteen Amendments at the Versailles Peace Conference.
Physical Description1 box10.25 x 12
A man divorces his wife for being a nagging back seat driver. He refers to driving as steering the wheels of justice.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.75
Several scenes of individuals and families changing their names after a New York Court ruled names could be changed to anything. The poor and immigrants change their names to higher-status names, and a bootlegger changes his name to protect himself.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 15.5
The Statue of Liberty shines her light of freedom on the ship carrying the U.S. peace delegation, including President Woodrow Wilson with his 14 peace principles, to the peace conference in 1918.
Physical Description1 box10.25 x 11.5
A woman, representing Massachusetts, sets up a summer home for President Woodrow Wilson. The summer homes for presidents Cleveland and Taft, also in Massachusetts, are depicted in the backgrounds.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 13.75
A working man, small business man, and housewife contribute to Woodrow Wilson's campaign fund.
Physical Description1 box12.75 x 13.5
Hoover and Curtis ride the Republican Party elephant, whose front half has become a camel, struggling into the "Eastern Modification Sentiment" wind.
Physical Description1 box11.75 x 15.25
President Woodrow Wilson golfing on vacation. He refuses to take calls regarding the German note and Mexico, but leaves as soon as he receives a call that his grandchild wants him.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 15
Memorial to Woodrow Wilson, showing his place in the history books as educator, governor, World War president and world peace president.
Physical Description1 box12.75 x 15.75
President Woodrow Wilson plays golf while various groups comment on his style (Japanese spies, Wall St. scouts, office seekers, an official guide, and William Jennings Bryan.
Physical Description1 box17.5 x 14
Woodrow Wilson at the head of the parade to his presidential inauguration. Behind him are William Jennings Bryan, Princeton professors, Princeton Cottage Club, Murphy representing the Tammany Democrats, the "In Bad Club," "The Original Wilson Man - 50000 Strong," office seekers and suffragettes.
Physical Description1 box22.25 x 7.25
A gold bond investor dreams of making billions in devaluation profits, but is awakened by a Supreme Court Justice ruling that he cannot do that.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 15.5
V. Huerta, seated in a Dictator chair, packs his bags and prepares to leave Mexico City to avoid revolutionary Pancho Villa.
Physical Description1 box11.75 x 15
Several scenes of President Woodrow Wilson speaking.
Physical Description1 box17.25 x 15
Woodrow Wilson chases the Progressive Party Bull Moose and Republican Party Elephant from Massachusetts.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 12.75
An old man (1915) coaches the new year (1916) on how to survive by minding his P's: peace, prosperity, preparedness, presidency, and proposals.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14
1 box
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits on a tired Democratic Party donkey on the road to a 3rd term as chairman Edward J. Flynn lights a fire under him.
Physical Description1 box18.25 x 22.5
A disastrous kitchen, representing the National Food Problem, with too many cooks: farm blocks, black markets, OPA, Congress, and government agencies.
Physical Description1 box15.25 x 20.25
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, depicted as Santa Claus, walks on a road representing fruitless New Deal experiements, heading towards $45,000,000,000 public debt. He is unconcerned, but the weight of the debt is carried by a laboring tax payer.
Physical Description1 box17.25 x 21.25
John L. Lewis runs to get on the "Democrats for Willkie" bandwagon, leaving a surprised Franklin Delano Roosevelt behind him.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 19.25
Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressing the crowd during presidential campaigns. In 1932 and 1936 it was "my friends." In 1940 it would be "my subjects" and in 1944 "my slaves."
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 19
1 box
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt makes a wooden boy with his face representing the 3rd term, hoping it will come to life.
Physical Description1 box13 x 16
A line of donkeys jumps off a diving board into water.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 15.5
A man in a scholar's robe and hat changes the street sign of "Wall St." to "Willkie St."
Physical Description1 box13 x 15.5
A man and the Republican Party elephant ride on a book, "Go West Young Man" by Horace Greeley.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 15.5
1 box
Grave stones with the date and location of battles for liberty, and a quote by Coltan that a people must raise themselves to liberty to earn it, rather than being given it.
Physical Description1 box
A man, representing the Allies, uses a cross bow to try to shoot an apple, representing the invasion point, off the head of a worried man.
Physical Description1 box12.75 x 15
1 box
A plane, representing a third term for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, attacks the Statue of Liberty.
Physical Description1 box10.5 x 13.5
Japan, represented as a snake, reaches across the Pacific Ocean through the Philippines, Indies, and Singapore towards Australia.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 11
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt rides the Democrat Party donkey, coaxing it along a path to a third term with "more abundant life, socialistic schemes, and rosy promises." However, the donkey is distracted and horrified by a note that indicates debt is $45,000,000,000 and stops moving.
Physical Description1 box15.75 x 10.75
1 box
St. Michael's Spire stands undamaged while all the buildings around it have been destroyed.
Physical Description1 box15 x 22.25
Two huge hands holding whip labeled "Administrative Lawmaking" and purse labeled "Rewards from the Public Purse."
"Portland Oregonian," October 25, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxBlack crayon and ink, 23 x 28 3/423 x 28.75
Shows "Free American Farmer" driving plow of "McNary Way." Refers to Senator Charles McNary's (R. Oregon) farm aid measures.
"Portland Oregonian," October 19, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 29
Shows a dachshund with spiked collar slobbering his water outside doghouse with swastika. Refers to Nazi electoral victory in Memel territory subsequent to surrender of area.
"Portland Oregonian," December 14, 1938.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 29
Shows baby of inflation in "New Deal cradle of fiscal fallacies" screaming "More!" and FDR as nurse feeding it its "unbalanced rations."
"Portland Oregonian," October 13, 1936.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 27.75
Shows Republican Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie (1940) offering Uncle Sam, who until now has been riding the "Gnu Deal" (New Deal) with FDR, a ride on the Republican elephant because FDR's Gnu is about to drown.
"Portland Oregonian," October 2, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 29
Shows chained figure labeled "Chief of State" held in palm of huge hand, probably Hitler's. Swastika looms in background. Figure is probably Neville Chamberlain referring to fall of Verdun.
"Portland Oregonian," July 10, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink23 x 29
1 box
An amateur strategist suggests that the way to stop the Japanese invasions throughout southeast Asia is for American forces to cut their supply lines.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
A soldier representing Japan takes a huge spoon of sugar, representing Japanese conquests, to put in his cup of Java.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
A hand, representing the U.S., gives guns and planes and tanks and ships to General MacArthur, stationed in Australia, who is preparing to fight Japan.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
Adolf Hitler losing at cards to father time, using a globe and a history book for a table. Hitler lost a large bet for final victory in 1940, a smaller one for final victory in 1941, and now has a much smaller bet to make for final victory in 1942.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
Uncle Sam watches, horrified, as War Industry Labor Unions with excess demands and profiteering industries with huge profits pull most of the feathers off of an eagle representing U.S. War Emergency.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
Portrait of George Washington. The caption reads: George Washington's Advice - No Third Term, No Foreign Entanglements."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
A trash can labeled "Limbo of Forgotten Things," which contains a sign reading "it can't happen here," an umbrella labeled appeasement, and a calendar turned to December 1941.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
A figure representing U.S. Tax Payers goes to work at a Power House, providing a 56 Billion Dollar War Budget to Defense Industries.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
A man, representing "we the people," sits in a classroom with War for a teacher. He says "All my life up to now Singapore, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies have been just far away places on the map, but I know better now! They're the places where rubber and tin come from!"
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
An ordinary U.S. citizen sits in an arm chair, convinced that the United States will win World War II. Uncle Sam sits on a club representing vast resources and with a large back of inexhaustible wealth. They are about to be attacked from behind with a bolt of lightening representing the Axis Blitzkrieg tactics.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 21.5
The Republican Party elephant and Democrat Party donkey pull a plow together, directed by Uncle Sam, to create New Armament Plants on the field of National Defense.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
A man with a wig, representing "no third term tradition" is kicked out of the White House, probably by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt driving a long fire truck representing national unity. The Republican Party elephant, representing the Loyal Opposition, drives the back portion of the truck.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
Ordinary citizens fight with each other over the Presidential Campaign of 1940. After the election, they shake hands and part ways, only to return to fight again at the next election in 1944.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
An old man, writing in a history book, observes the people voting in the U.S. Presidential Election of 1940.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
John Q. Citizen, in bed on the presidential election night 1940, counts Democrat Party donkeys and Republican Party elephants instead of sheep to try to sleep.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
Together, the Republican Party elephant and Democrat Party donkey throw a cat representing politics into a lack with a rock tied around its neck. But the elephant protests when the donkey puts a rock around it and wants it to jump into the lake as well.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.25
The Republican Party elephant tries to get a man representing "we the people" to enter the G.O.P. National Convention in 1940, represented as a circus tent. He is distracted by a train carrying "Roosevelt's Speech-Making Tour of the Nation, Non-Political of Course."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.25
Presidential candidate Dewey as the Pied Piper, leading Mid-West primaries vote away from candidate Vandenberg.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.25
An exhausted Uncle Sam reads in the newspaper 'Roosevelt Says He is Tired of the Third Term Question."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
Political candidates try to do things against their nature to win votes: a candidate takes a fake picture of himself catching a fish to win votes in Florida, a candidate from the East tries to be a cowboy to win votes in the West, and a candidate from the city tries to milk a cow to win votes in the farm belt.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
A woman, representing the Hatch "Clean Politics" Bill tries to wash a boy representing politics, who complains "I don't wanta be too clean!"
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
The presidential election of 1940 is represented as a draft. Wendell Willkie has No. 1, because it would be his first term, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has No. 3. A blindfolded man representing the American people reaches into a bucket to select one of them.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
Wendell Willkie dressed as a witch flies on a broomstick labeled Gallup Poll. The Democrat Party donkey looks up, frightened.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
A man, representing Senators and Representatives Up for Re-Election" sits on the steps of Washington, forgotten because of the 1940 Presidential Election race.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
Voters are represented as birds and presidential candidates Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie as hunters. Each have "bagged" some loyal supporters, but it is in the independent voter that they spend the most time hunting.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
A man representing Washington Politics sits in a school classroom. He pretends to be reading the "National Defense Program" but is really reading "How to Get Re-Elected in November."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as two people, one the President reading up on National Defense Problems, and the other the Candidate for Re-Election. Wendell Willkie challenges him to a joint debate on campaign issues but is told that "we are too busy to make political speeches!"
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Roman robes receives a crown for his third term from a kneeling Democrat Party donkey.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
A man, Al Smith Bolt, walks from New York to Elwood, Indiana, the home of Wendell Willkie.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
Wendell Willkie as a young boy riding the Republican Party elephant tries to get the elephant to break its way through a brick wall representing the "Solid South."
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
The Republican Party elephant tries to row up a waterfall representing current world conditions during the 1940 Presidential Campaign, saying "And I thought I was going to have smooth sailing this trip!"
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt participates in the Democratic National Convention in Chicago over long distance direct wire from Washington.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 19.5
The Republican Party elephant runs to the National Convention in Philadelphia with a drum representing the Wendell Willkie Dark Horse Boom tied to his tail. The elephant runs from the noise, but his running actually causes it to boom more.
Physical Description1 box
1 box
The free spirit of England denies Hitler and the free spirit of America denies Roosevelt a third term.
Physical Description1 box15 x 19
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the "ship of state" tries to catch a whale representing the third presidential term with the help of many supporters.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 19.5
Wendell Willkie and Harry Hopkins meet each other in London and ask "what are you doing over here?"
Physical Description1 box15 x 19.5
Adolf Hitler and Mussolini as witches prepare trouble for the Balkans.
Physical Description1 box15 x 19.5
Britain, represented by a lion, is attacked by arrows representing the invasion of low countries, the Norwegian campaign, and German Air Power, is angry and ready to fight.
Physical Description1 box15 x 19
A figure representing War forges National Unity before creating weapons.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 19.25
An American soldier walks through a thunderstorm, carrying the American flag.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 19.5
Harry S. Truman is sworn in by Uncle Sam, his hands on the Holy Bible and a ray of light from the clouds hitting him. Uncle Sam says "- and may He guide you."
Physical Description1 box15 x 19.5
Uncle Sam runs from an octopus representing the New Deal shouting "Eight is enough!" The arms of the octopus represent the years 1933-1940.
Physical Description1 box15 x 19.25
1 box
France chained to post surrounded by skulls with smoldering city in background.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 32
He is Stalin sitting in bathtub waiting for "Balkan Blood Bath."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 32
Hitler holding Atlas at gunpoint and demanding the world.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12 x 32
Bum of the "Silk shirt era" of the last war advising "War Boom worker" to save his money instead of throwing it away as he did.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon, 16 1/4 x 14 1/214.25 x 16.25
2 boxes
Adolf Hitler, depicted as an ape, escapes from a cage in a circus to attack England.
Physical Description1 box9 x 11.25
A tired, wounded Nazi soldier representing the Nazi Army on the French Coast prepares to put on boots labeled "Frist Phast of that Blitzkreig" and "That Second Boot." A man representing the British Isles lies in bed, reading a paper.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
John Bull struggles to hold Hitler (represented as a giant ape) back and keep him from attacking. The rope was given to him by Uncle Sam, but he is distracted from helping use the rope by the 1940 election. Small monkeys representing Mussolini and Japan are in the tree and a wolf representing Joseph Stalin stands in the background.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
Rich Americans eat and dance while a man representing John Bull's Navy tries to keep Hitler and his forces from entering the club.
Physical Description1 box9.5 x 11.25
Uncle Sam walks across the Atlantic Ocean with aid for Britain: food, clothing, medicine, armaments, and planes. He walks on rocks labeled "short of war" to stay above water, but as the rocks become shorter he comes close to drowning.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
Hitler stands on the edge of a cliff, holding a noose representing invasion, trapped by the simultaneous attacks of Russia, Libia, England, and sabotage in Germany.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
A medical examiner for the draft looks at an out-of-shape man who has spent too much time at baseball games.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
Uncle Sam walks through "vichy waters", fending off mosquitoes representing the Japanese "double cross" and stepping over a crocodile representing the French Fleet "double cross?" to get to an olive branch tree.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
Uncle Sam and a woman, possibly Liberty, are welcomed by a man representing Japan, while Japanese soldiers, Hitler, and Mussolini hide in a cherry tree, preparing to attack.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
A man, representing general statistic figures and carrying a flag reading "potential U.S. Wealth" is bucked by a horse ("high horse attitude") that is startled by the attack on Pearl Harbor. He lands on a horse ("horse sense facts") with hooves labeled "Army, Navy, Air, Folks."
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 11.25
A man representing Japan stands on a rope bridge connecting Japan with the United States. Japan is a exploding behind him, and he damages the bridge as he is attacked by an eagle. The bridge reads "conquer or die."
Physical Description1 box
1 box
Political boxing match with Uncle Sam as referee.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink27 x 19.5
1 box
Trojan Horse labeled "3rd Term (FDR's)" sits outside of door of "Our American Liberty."
"The Cleveland News," September 21, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
He is Wendell Willkie, G.O.P. elephant complains that Willkie "up and left me with twins." Twins are Willkie-ites and Anti-Willkie-ites. A former Democrat, Willkie ran as the Republican Presidential candidate in 1940, lost to FDR, but became the Presidential personal representative (1941-42) to Europe.
"The Cleveland News," February 5, 1941.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Mussolini running in two directions at once and going nowhere.
"The Cleveland News," November 28, 1940
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie crashing through FDR's line in political football game.
"The Cleveland News," October 29, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Banner-carrying people marching on Washington. Refers to dispute over FDR's running for a third term. (1940)
"The Cleveland News," October 22, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Critical view of FDR's record on unemployment for his first two terms.
"The Cleveland News," October 2, 1940
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Big stick of national defense chopped up by New Deal academicians.
"The Cleveland News," October 3, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Critical view on FDR's record on public spending for his first two terms.
"The Cleveland News," October 8, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Shadow of 9,600,000 unemployed cast over the White House.
"The Cleveland News," September 24, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
FDR and Henry Wallace hurry to attach more lightening rods to roof of New Deal barn before "No Third Term" storm strikes.
"The Cleveland News," September 15, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Smoke rises out of Maine forests saying "No Third Term." Refers to FDR's running for a third term in 1940.
"The Cleveland News," September 11, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Hitler and Mussolini race to cover various crises within Axis countries.
"The Cleveland News," August 28, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
FDR standing over auditorium in Chicago where Democratic Presidential Convention was held in 1940 pulling strings while saying, "I have no wish to be a candidate again."
"The Cleveland News," July 17, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Hitler and Mussolini contemplating "Axis Peace Terms" in form of guillotine.
"The Cleveland News," June 18, 1940
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Uncle Sam and Hitler yelling through megaphones at each other while FDR chases voter with salt shaker.
"The Cleveland News," March 31, 1940.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Molotov blocking entrance to Stalin's office saying "Joe is NOT in."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard20 x 22.5
Stalin knee deep in Danube changing sign from "Blue Danube" to "Red Danube."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard20 x 22.5
Truman trying to spur the rundown Democratic Donkey onward.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard.20 x 22.5
Loaf of bologna labeled "Truman's continued attack on 80th Congress," with a few slices cut off.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard20 x 22.5
Harry Truman keeping watch on "Federal Employee Loyalty Data" with "Executive Authority" as Congress cries out for a "Red Spy Probe."
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard20 x 22.5
Dove of Peace frozen in ice block of Cold War.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard20 x 22.5
Camp of Republican Presidential Candidate (1940), Wendell Willkie, with tents for campaign notables.
"The Cleveland News"
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Congress resting easy on cloud of Retirement Program while "hourly wage earners" and "$21 per month soldier" carry on below.
"Buffalo Evening News"
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Americans holding out on Midway Isle during WWII.
"Buffalo Evening News"
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
Attorney General Biddle's "Official Secrets Bill" about to serve as gag for freedom of the press.
"Buffalo Evening News"
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
German officers complaining to Hitler about Britain's entrance into WWII.
"The Cleveland News," September 13, 1939.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard20.5 x 25.5
Bewildered FDR reads in Boston paper what he said on July 30, 1932 about Budgets and Bankruptcy.
"The Cleveland News," December 13, 1938.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink with black crayon on pebbleboard22.5 x 28.5
1 box
Santa "Pinchot" stands grinning before enormous "barrel" stocking labeled "$222,000,000.000 Departmental Estimates" while sack slung over his shoulder contains "$90,000,000.00 Budget."
Philadelphia Ledger
Physical Description1 boxCrayon and ink on scratchboard, 15 x 2015 x 20
1 box
Richly dressed figures labeled "Bath House John, Martin, Oberndorf, Powers, Kunz, Wulff, and Novak" are chased from lawn of "Franchise Grants" by policemen labeled "Independent Voter."
Chicago Journal
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink14 x 16
1 box
Beach scene in which man and woman recline beneath an umbrella while children play behind them.
Taylor1 boxPen and ink21.5 x 13.25
Beautiful girl seated on couch looks admiringly at dignified gentleman kneeling beside her. Taylor was famous for his "Taylor-Made Girl" and influenced Charles Dana Gibson in his work.
Taylor1 boxPen and ink14.25 x 14.25
1 box
Shows Uncle Sam signing pledge "to Avoid Wars among the Americas" with Latin America. In background, uniformed "Europe" drinks gluttonously of "Overproof War Spirits" while impoverished "European Taxpayers" look hopelessly on.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard11.25 x 15
1 box
The beginning of a campaign is depicted as a "fencing bout between gentlemen," with the Republican Party elephant and Democratic donkey respecting each other. The end of a campaign is "total war," with the two fighting and calling names.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 13.25
A "Mud Thrower," covered in mud, tells the "whispering campaigner" to "go away - you're dirtier than I am."
Physical Description1 box12 x 13.25
Wendell Willkie tries to debate with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on domestic issues, past mistakes, and debts. Roosevelt, firing a gun representing "dramatic defense activities" cannot hear him.
Physical Description1 box12 x 13.25
An undecided voter is wooed by several politicians.
Physical Description1 box10.5 x 12.5
Uncle Sam, switching from the Democrat Party donkey to the Republican elephant before crossing a stream representing war. A man representing the New Deal tells him "You shouldn't change in midstream," even though he has yet to enter the stream.
Physical Description1 box12 x 14
Woodrow Wilson tries to get out of bed, against Dr. Grayson's orders, because there is so much to do.
Physical Description1 box16 x 20
1 box
Bald frontiersman with four-paned window around his neck aims rifle at figure disappearing into the background.
"Puck" january 23, 1909, 5 illustrations, The Power of Animals
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink13.5 x 16.75
1 box
Wizened figure behind a counter asks, "Vell, How Mooch D'ye Vont?" as young boy lopes toward him carrying a huge padlock.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink16.5 x 13.5
1 box
William Jennings Bryan, a critic of evolution, walks by the "family tree" and is hit on the head by a coconut thrown by a monkey.
Physical Description1 box14 x 21.75
1 box
Uncle Sam is struck by lightening from a storm representing Hoover "Prosperity."
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.5
A man shoots another man to steal his pig, representing the five billion dollar liquor traffic.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
Andrew Carnegie, dressed as a king, feasts on "$40,000,000 tax refund to Mellon Interests" while a Mellon employee receives a notice of a wage cut.
Physical Description1 box11 x 12.5
The Democratic Party donkey and Republican Party elephant are both thin and sweating in the desert.
Physical Description1 box17.75 x 11.5
1 box
A weeping woman says goodbye to her son, a U.S. soldier.
Physical Description1 box14.75 x 16
Old man reading newspaper full of incidents of domestic unrest while wife in background says, "That must be Russia you're reading about, Abner. They're so lawless!" He responds, "Glad you think so, Mandy."
Idaho Daily Statesman; Boise, Idaho.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink16 x 17.5
Huge silhouette of "Prussianism" nailed to fence of "Democracy" with "Liberty Bond" nails by common man singing "[His] Roll."
Idaho Daily Statesman; Boise, Idaho.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink18.5 x 20.5
Logo of American Red Cross shining above the globe.
Idaho Daily Statesman; Boise, Idaho
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink17 x 20.75
Club-carrying "Bolshevik" hurdles in the "Inski" side of the revolving door of "Russian government" as "Kerensky Forces" are booted out "Outski" side.
Idaho Daily Statesman; Boise, Idaho.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink16 x 17.5
A drawing for the war effort (WWI) with the following quotation from President Wilson; "America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured."
Idaho Daily Statesman; Boise, Idaho.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink15.25 x 17.75
An American soldier chases a German soldier back to Berlin, holding a noose to catch him. The noose is made up of the Liberty Loans used to fund U.S. efforts in World War I, tied together by Uncle Sam. A "volunteer bond buyer" brings rope from the fourth liberty loan so the American soldier can keep going.
Physical Description1 box17.25 x 19.75
American soldiers in World War I are given more strength by the purchase of Liberty Bonds, allowing them to hit Prussianism harder.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 18.25
A flower representing World Peace grows from a skull representing the European War (World War I).
Physical Description1 box11 x 14.75
A bald eagle, representing the U.S.A., attacks a shark representing submarine terrorism during World War I.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 18.75
Uncle Sam is dragged into the waters of World War I by a shark representing U-Boat terrorism.
Physical Description1 box16.25 x 18.75
A figure representing "militarism" goes peacefully to his execution at the hands of a figure representing "the present European war" (World War I).
Physical Description1 box17 x 20.5
1 box
Benito Mussolini is chased from Ethiopia by John Bull, while Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie laughs.
Physical Description1 box11.25 x 14.25
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini dreams of being boiled in a pot by Ethiopians.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.25
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini eat together, both unhappy. Hitler eats a dog and Mussolini a black bird.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.25
A man representing the public catches Congress taking a "pension grab" from the U.S. Treasury. Now that he is caught, Congress considers putting it back.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 19
Wendell Willkie fishes for voters using "money issues," but the fish doesn't bite.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.5
Three men in a row boat representing Wendell Willkie's supporters: big money, the Republican party, and privilege. They are stuck on the rocks because the water level of "Willkie Popularity" has gone down so much.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.5
A bowling ball, representing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, knocks down all of the pins, representing the Republican Party campaign issues.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.5
The Republican elephant with a large cannon for the presidential campaign, but all he has for ammunition are small bullets representing Wendell Willkie wisecracks.
Physical Description1 box11.5 x 14.5
The Japanese Navy destroys Singapore's "impregnable defenses."
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 19.5
1 box
Transition through life regarding attitude toward Christmas.
Dated 1912.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink18.25 x 14.5
Nassau Street scene, 3 cameos, the problems and inconveniences of life for a Princeton student.
Dated 1912. Title "The Princeton Student as described by the World's Book." is a crossed out.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink18.25 x 14.5
Harvard-Princeton football game, many socially and racially interesting comments.
Dated 1912. Title "If we were to believe what lots of people say about us both." is crossed out.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink18.25 x 14.25
Nine Cameos of spring time at Princeton.
Uses much archaic slang. Dated 1912. Title is crossed out.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink21.75 x 15.25
1 box
Mr. Milquetoast scared out of reading play to his wife by cautionary note on flyleaf.
"N.Y. Tribune, Inc." January 27, 1941.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink14 x 17.5
1 box
Uncle Sam offers a few coins to a soldier as his bonus.
Physical Description1 box17.25 x 24
Uncle Sam as a doctor tries to cure a man from Presidential Ambitions in the "native son" ward.
Physical Description1 box15 x 20
1 box
Farley and McNutt get on their knees to listen to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's announcement about the third term.
Physical Description1 box13 x 15.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt overstays his welcome in the home of an elderly couple.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 15.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt turns away as if refusing a third term, but reaches out with this other hand to take a "third piece of pie" from a woman representing the Democratic Party.
Physical Description1 box13.75 x 17
The Republican Party elephant rings the Liberty bell at the G.O.P. Convention in Philadelphia in 1940.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 16.75
Wendell Willkie is the bee that stung Ferdinand, who represents the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 15
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt jumps from the horse "Democracy" to the horse "Dictator Policy," pulling Uncle Sam with him. Both horses are struggling to swim in deep water.
Physical Description1 box16 x 18.25
The Hatch Bill is losing a boxing match with a large man representing politics. His gloves are "political spending" and "election year."
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 16.75
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tells the Republican Party elephant "Of course I signed the Hatch Bill," but the elephant only has a small amount of campaign funds due to the $5,000 individual limit and Roosevelt has a huge bag of funds from various organizations: TVA, NYA, WPA, AAA, and CCC.
Physical Description1 box13.25 x 16.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dressed as Santa, tries to explain to a man how the guns and airplanes he needs are "on order" but not currently available.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 14.75
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is hugged and smothered by a large woman representing the 3rd Term.
Physical Description1 box15.75 x 18.25
A man leans on a shovel, sleeping, while holding a sign that reads "WPA Unfair to Workers!"
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 17.75
The Republican Party elephant as a hobo with a small bag of "campaign issues" looks up happily as "Nazi White Paper Charges" fall from the sky.
Physical Description1 box13.5 x 16.25
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims that there are free elections, while a man representing voters is tied to a ballot box by political machines, the "draft" gag, U.S. Treasure, and W.P.A. vote buying.
Physical Description1 box12 x 14.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeats a man representing the "third term tradition" at cards, taking his money and his clothes. The cards spell out "New Deal".
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 14
Several "bosses" stand outside the U.S. Treasury with a ballot box: Flynn, Lewis, Hague, Kelly, Guffey, and Nash.
Physical Description1 box12.25 x 15.5
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a cook, reading a book entitled "on hand or order book" and cooking "alphabet soup." Around him, debt, unemployment, and taxes pile up as dirty dishes, waste piles on the floor, and a cat representing bureaucrats drinks spilled milk.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 16.75
1 box
Benito Mussolini writes Santa Claus asking him for spurs (German aid) to help in Albania and Egypt, and to hurry because Christmas will be too late.
Physical Description1 box15 x 13
Roosevelt announces plans to make five political speeches before the election as Wendell Willkie's popularity rises.
Physical Description1 box15 x 13.5
A figure representing the World, bandaged and in a wheel chair, writes an angry letter to Hitler in the form of a Valentine.
Physical Description1 box15 x 13
Adolf Hitler rolls down a hill from Moscow, and a snowball begins to form around him.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 15
Uncle Sam writes his War Plan, which starts with war planes and pilots by the thousands.
Physical Description1 box16.75 x 15
1 box
Three eccentric characters in foreground discussing prize-winning produce. Background in chaos as people of all shapes and sizes enjoy a day at the fair. Unfinished old man on reverse.
"Puck," August 14, 1912. Unfinished old man on reverse.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink20 x 15.5
Portly man speaking with elder man on main street of very rural town.
"Puck," September 12, 1911.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink22 x 16.5
1 box
Portrait of Admiral Bell.
Physical Description1 box8.25 x 10.25
1 box
The Democratic Party donkey and Republican elephant both shout on the telephone to an independent voter during a political campaign.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 18
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits in a smoke-filled room talking via a private wire to Chicago, where the Democratic National Convention was held in 1940.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 17.25
A submarine representing war sinks a ship representing world commerce.
Physical Description1 box15.25 x 18.5
Benito Mussolini is startled as he walks passed a statue of Caesar that says "humph."
Physical Description1 box15 x 17.75
1 box
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini try to intimidate the United States by shouting "Boo!" Uncle Sam ignores them and prepares aid for Britain.
Physical Description1 box14.5 x 16.75
1 box
Front-page cartoon in October 1873 edition of the New York Daily Graphic. IN style peculiar to Wust called Graphic Statues.
"A History of American Graphic Humor 1865-1938" by William Murrell. Inscription on reverse.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink on scratchboard17.75 x 21.25
1 box
A Nazi soldier and a collaborator walk through the streets of Paris as the Allies advance in the distance. A woman, representing the French underground, prepares to attack them.
Physical Description1 box9.75 x 13
1 box
Two in one cartoon with cameo in lower left titled "Destroying the Statue of George III at the Bowling Green New York" super-imposed on skyline populated by buildings with royal appellations.
"Puck," January 6, 1908.
Young1 boxPen and ink24.5 x 15.25
Dining room scene with fashionable ladies and gentlemen.
"Puck," October 22, 1907.
Young1 boxPen and ink22.75 x 12.5
1 box
Shows "Chairman Clapp" of GOP entering office with hat extended only to have everyone hide.
ZimmermanAmerican cartoonist.
Physical Description1 boxPen and ink12.25 x 9.75
1 box
Uncle Sam encourages Woodrow Wilson to keep firing notes at Europe from a cannon of diplomacy, telling him they have made some good hits.
Physical Description1 box22.5 x 14.25
A man has attached his drum set to a carpet beater so he can play and clean the carpet at the same time.
Physical Description1 box10 x 11.5
A woman points a gun at a man.
Physical Description1 box
Sherlock Holmes examines a piece of paper with a magnifying glass while Dr. Watson watches.
Physical Description1 box20 x 15.75
A Harvard man, Fred, orders two sailors to fire a cannon.
Physical Description1 box21.25 x 17
Two men talking.
Physical Description1 box20 x 16.25
Portrait of Woodrow Wilson.
Physical Description1 box5.5 x 8.5
An eagle flies down to help a burning Manila.
Physical Description1 box14.25 x 14
President Woodrow Wilson looking across the ocean to a pack of barking dogs labeled "jingoes."
Physical Description1 box22 x 11.25
A man encourages another, who is eating a free lunch, to drink.
Physical Description1 box15 x 10.75
A soldier at the front, a worker in a plant, and a worker in an office all dream of finishing with their dog.
Physical Description1 box12.5 x 13.75
A woman looks at two crying children in a waiting room.
Physical Description1 box15.5 x 20.75
World War II era comic strip produced by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Department of Research and Education
Physical Description1 box
1 box