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| Date: | 03 04 1905 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon titled "The Great American Durbar", showing a parade of political characters featuring Theodore Roosevelt perched atop an elephant symb... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for University of Wisconsin students to visit Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1971 as part of a civil disobedience demonstration. Features ... |
| 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: | 09 20 1891 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon from the Washington Post. It refers to the role of Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture from Wisconsin, in negotiating i... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Concert for the second installment of the Genesis film series, titled, "Cinematic Explorations". Poster features a naked woman riding a carrot over a puffy... |
| Date: | 12 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster commissioned by Community Service Radio Inc., WLVE, based in Baraboo and Madison and by Newsradio WIBU based in Poynette. Features a cartoon of Sant... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for Genesis IV, a showcase of short films presented at the Madison Art Center. Features a colorful pop comic image of figures from movie... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting William McKinley, Jr. at Toledo, Ohio, February 12, before the Ohio League of Republican Clubs. |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a performance of Samuel Beckett's play "Endgame" at University of Wisconsin Madison's-Union South theater. Features a crude drawing ... |
| Date: | 11 20 1880 |
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| Description: | The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the Republicans' relaxation of Reconstruction efforts in the southern s... |
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| Description: | Cartoon of Jim Crow in the U.S. zone of postwar Germany, with a soldier goose stepping in the foreground, and Hitler and Stalin in the background. |
| 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"... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon for Presidential Campaign that is Pro-Fremont, anti-Buchanan. John C. Fremont, Republican, and his wife Jessie Benton Fremont, are shown ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Ulysses S. Grant loyalist demonstrates his strength in a display showing various sized potatoes with politicians names attached. The opposition is depicted... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A poster made for the Purim party of the "Survivors Club". The sign reads: "The Jews will not experience Purim again." The sign is inspired by the hanging... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a lecture by Peter Saul, a visiting artist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department. Features a crude cartoon of a woman ho... |
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| Description: | Drawing of Paul Bunyan running with two oxen pulling a log that is being sawed by two other lumberjacks. |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting a Native American Indian holding treaty rights and saying, "Great white fathers are sulking because we won't trade our heritage!". They... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Cartoon depicting a very old Uncle Sam signing the Genocide Treaty while a man behind him says, "Better 37 years late than never, I suppose!". |
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