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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. A verse is written below the cartoon and refers to the period when he first became a senator. The verse is ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | At an Ice Chippers dinner, a man is presenting another man with a toilet seat, which has a cartoon with the message: "Try this on your ice hole." Behind th... |
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| Description: | Two barefoot men are standing and looking at a dilapidated outhouse, which has a sliding board for a seat extending out of the sides of the outhouse. The b... |
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| Description: | Outside art and text of two-fold, copy-art Christmas card of a silhouetted pig on the top and a portrait of Sid at the bottom. Sid wears a cowboy hat on hi... |
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| Description: | Profile drawing of a giraffe standing with its eyes closed. At the top, text reads, "The high•balls are on me!"; at the bottom, "Buy Your Own." |
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| Description: | Drawing of a man wearing an apron making cat nip tea. The man is using one hand to drop something into a pot on the stove, and with the other hand holding ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Composite drawing of Santa Claus riding a Gisholt Machine Company lathe as a sleigh and holding a starred whip in hand to guide a team of eight flying rein... |
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| Description: | Drawing of two giraffes, both the same height, but with the giraffe on the left with a shorter neck and longer legs, and the giraffe on the right with a lo... |
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| Description: | Text in large red lettering reads: "Opinions Are Like Aholes, Everybody Has One!" over an amorphous shape of a person's rear end. |
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| Description: | Cartoon image of a man face-down and going through a hand-cranked wringer, with his face looking at a martini glass sitting in front of him. His tie and to... |
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| Description: | Full-length caricature of a man in a suit and a hat facing left. Possibly a self-portrait. He is holding a hand-cranked clothes wringer behind his back. Te... |
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| Description: | Cartoon of Uncle Sam, on the left, rolling up his sleeves, watching a man and the Grim Reaper running towards him. In the center is a barrier marked: "Stan... |
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| Description: | A color cartoon face of a man to the left with numbers worked into his hair, throat, and neck tie, and a telephone attached to his collar. In lower right-h... |
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| Description: | A women's photographic head shot has been pasted onto a line drawing depicting her as the capital of a pillar. The pillar is decorated with flowers and hea... |
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