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| Description: | Cut-out of Smokey Bear standing next to a sign that reads: "Mr. Sportsman..Thanks for helping prevent forest fires. Smokey." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Depiction of a man and a woman each putting their votes into a ballot box, touting equal suffrage: "For a better government of the people, by the people, a... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Two drawings illustrating a hyperbolic comparison between a society which permits drinking of alcoholic beverages and one that does not. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon during the presidential campaign depicting W.J. Bryan repainting a sign with the word "imperialism". |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon in which a small Harry Truman wearing an oversized shoe is requesting more power of a man representing Congress. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Humorous postcard designed by Elizabeth H. Bridgers of North Carolina in support of the Presidential candidacy of Republican William Howard Taft. Mrs. Bri... |
| Date: | 08 11 1892 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon for presidential campaign. Pro-Benjamin Harrison, anti-Grover Cleveland. Shows "John Bull" (Cleveland was labeled "The English Candidate"... |
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| Description: | Caricature of man smoking a cigar while walking down the street. He is about to fall in a open manhole. Caption reads "If Nothing Happens I'll Be With You ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A cartoon created during the 1928 presidential campaign depicting bigotry displayed against Democratic candidate Al Smith. "The Sniper" is depicted as a ma... |
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| Description: | Cartoon postcard of a quack doctor. He wears a top hat and carries an umbrella under his arm. In his right hand he holds a bag bearing the name Dr. Killem.... |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting the delivery of ice from a wagon. Children surround the wagon and a boy shouts, "Oh Skin-nay, yoo hoo! I-I-Ice." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Depicts an overweight man wearing a bowler hat drinking beer directly from a barrel. In the background beer steins are littering the ground. The caption at... |
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| Description: | Card featuring a series of drawings of two donkeys tied together with a rope. This prevents each of them from eating from their own pile of hay until they ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A cartoon drawing of the statue of liberty with her hands in the air and her torch falling towards the ground. Below her are six men pointing guns at her.... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A two-sided, antisemitic card featuring "Ikie" Eisenhower on the left (with "IKIE" below) and a caricature of a Jewish man on the right (with "US" below). ... |
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