Search results

(21 - 40 of 47)

Pages

Title: JM-262: Marathon race between two sphinxes
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting men looking at two sphinxes. One of the sphinxes is labeled "Mellon" and the other is labeled "Coolidge".

Title: JM-253: The Presidential Ring of 1928
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting President Hoover's hat inside of a ring while other candidates run toward it.

Title: JM-212: Movies for the conference
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a Japanese figure watching a movie with Uncle Sam. Film shows both the victorious nations and the defeated ones being crushed underneath debt, suffering, and unrest; war sits in a field filled with gravestones.

Title: JM-192: Nope!
Summary: This cartoon shows President Woodrow Wilson boarding a train. Uncle Sam is attempting to also board the train, but it seems he does not have a reservation. The bag President Wilson is carrying is titled, “League Covenant”. This bag most likely refers to President Wilson’s ambition to form the League of Nations, an collection of nations working together to create international unity. The League of Nations existed from 1920 to 1946. The United States never officially joined the League of Nations, because congress feared its membership would limit the United States’ national sovereignty. At the time, many Americans suggested joining the League of Nations would not benefit the United States. However, there was also a population of Americans, including Woodrow Wilson, who believed The League of Nations’ efforts towards international peace would offer great benefits to the United States. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-190: America would like to know
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam questioning President Wilson about when "America gave its word to the rest of the world" while holding a paper containing a quotation from part of Wilson's interview.

Title: JM-215: Three scenes pertaining to the political barometer in the United States, China, and Russia in 1922
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting political sentiments set in three different countries. In the top panel, centered in the United States, a group of men stand around a political barometer debating why the nomination of Republican, turned progressive, and then again Republican, Albert J. Beveridge for senator occurred. In the middle panel, centered on China, General Wu chases General Chang south while one of the injured warriors lies on the ground and says that Wu is hell. General Wu may refer to General Wu Pei-Fu, who was a warlord in China, mostly in the northern and central regions; he was rumored to be dead by General Chang in the Sacramento Union paper in May 1922. The bottom panel, centering on Russia, shows Uncle Sam sitting next to a representative of the Kerensky Government while Soviet Russia looks on and claims not to be related. Soviet Russia is the period of Russia after the tsar lost power in 1917 and before the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922; the government in this interim period was at first led by Prime Minister Prince Georgy Lvov and Minister of Justice Aleksandr Kerensky, but Lenin returned to Russia in 1917 and began to work on regaining his political supporters, which resulted in Kerensky and Lenin vying for power and support later in the interim period.

Title: JM-064: Have you ever noticed--
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting foreign ambassadors to the United States being unaffected by flattery while the American ambassadors are.

Title: JM-015: How the election returns look to a man who is trying to get an office the people don't want him to have
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Taft reading unfavorable headlines.

Title: JM-188: New members of the club
Summary: This cartoon depicts many issues leading to political discourse during the late 1910s in the United States. The old sources of political discourse such as “prohibition issue”, “he kept us out of war issue”, and “tariff issue” have been displaced by the overgrown and overwhelming new issues. The “prohibition issue” refers to the question of whether alcohol should be a legal substance in the United States. The “he kept us out of war issue” refers to the fact that, despite his promise, the United States entered World War I under President Wilson. The “tariff issue” refers to what goods (if any) should have a tariff placed on them to protect the economic interests of the United States. The new issues overtaking the room were a relatively new source of political conflict. The “league amendments issue” refers to the United States entering the League of Nations. If the United States had joined the League of Nations, it would have to surrender some of its national sovereignty, which made it an unacceptable option to many politicians. The “cost of living” was a relatively new issue in the United States. It refers to the unusually high cost of necessary items, while many worker’s wages remained low by comparison. The “daylight savings issue” refers to the issue of whether the United States should continue to use daylight savings time. The United States had adopted daylight savings time in 1918. Many countries adopted daylight savings during World War I as a way to lower the need to use coal. The transition to daylight savings time had been problematic, and many in the United States thought it should be abandoned. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-260: The probable starter as seen today
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting men and an elephant watching three different horses preparing for a race.

Title: JM-023: Congress - before and after
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting members of Congress looking engaged and excited in the top panel, labeled as "last year" before a vote to receive higher wages. In the second panel, labeled "this year" and after the members have received a wage increase, the room has emptied out and the members still left all look bored.

Title: JM-263: Caucus of the Pennsylvania Delegation
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the outside of a building where the Pennsylvania Delegation is in caucus. The Curtis Sextet is shown making votes for Curtis.

Title: JM-254: Cornerstones of the full dinnerpail
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting four cornerstones holding up a full dinnerpail. The stones are labeled: "Protective Tariff", "Restrictive immigration", "Economic farm relief", and "National defense". An elephant holds a sign explaining that the ensemble is meant for President Hoover.

Title: JM-276: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Editorial cartoon consisting of three panels, with each panel depicting a different cartoon. In the first panel, Mexico cheers Col. Fierro; in the second panel, King Carol of Romania arms; in the third panel, Stimson shows Uncle Sam the Navy treaty

Title: JM-022: How we have changed!
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Pinckney refusing one cent for tribute and proclaiming that all money should go to defense. He is contrasted with another figure who is proclaiming that all the money should go toward political gain and none toward defense.

Title: JM-258: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Board depicting three different editorial cartoons. In the top panel, the islands of Fiji and Hawaii are shown as links between the United States and Australia. In the middle panel, two men and two women are shown listening to a radio declaring the Republican Concention meeting; a sign on the wall shows the date as June 12. In the bottom panel, a woman in a courtroom tells a judge that she is willing to do a couple of years of time in exchange for the judge letting her associates go.

Title: JM-107: Missouri loves company but not a crowd
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man representing Missouri sitting between two women, labeled "Niedringhaus" and "Kerens." Thomas K. Niedringhaus and Richard C. Kerens were two of the men vying to be on the Republican ballot for Senator in 1905.

Title: JM-256: U.S. Supreme Court reversed by lower court
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a lower court jury finding no fraud in the Teapot Dome oil deal while the Supreme Court looks on, aghast at the decision and with their own conclusion of fraud.

Title: JM-033: At the ringside
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a man in the center of a roped off area while reporters stand all along the outside of the rope-enclosed space.

Title: JM-310: Mother's Day in the White House and afterwards
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting FDR pledging not to send draftees overseas; Congress refuses to pass the motion.

Pages