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Title: JM-182: The new income tax
Summary: This cartoon depicts a man being irritated with the high income tax rates in the United States. The man suggests the reason for the increased taxes is the fact the the United States is currently fighting in World War I. The man continues to complain about the income tax until he passes a group of soldiers. The man realizes his financial sacrifice is less than that being made by the men serving in the military. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-079: A good New Year's resolution
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a hand writing out a check from the National Bank of Chicago for the "Italian Relief Fund." Behind the hand, figures representing New York, St. Louis, California, and Chicago all carry bags or baskets labeled "Relief for Italy."

Title: JM-198: Congress is all out investigatin', Congress is all out investigating
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two men on a porch watching multiple Congressional committees investigating various things, such as a crime wave, railways, the peace plan, the "Tea pot dome oil lease scandal", charges against Bolshevism, and several different propaganda groups.

Title: JM-305: Trying to prove that all things come to him who waits
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting nine men waiting outside FDR's door.

Title: JM-266: Confidence
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Hoover, holding a "Continued Prosperity" banner, leading the G.O.P. elephant across the "Bridge to the Presidency".

Title: JM-066: How to raise more taxes
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three different scenes. In the first panel, women re-entering the United States with Mexican divorce papers are charged a tariff on the divorce. In the middle panel, a nobleman is leaving his wife, an American heiress, at home to go and buy some cigarettes. In the bottom panel, two men discuss going home if the exchange rate gets any worse.

Title: JM-078: Three scenes of Uncle Sam excluding immigrants
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes in three different panels. In the top panel, Uncle Sam stands in a garden of Americanism surrounded by crows labeled "Unassimilable Asiatic Immigration" and "Undesirable European Immigration." In the middle panel, Uncle Sam is putting up two signs along the coast: "Exclusion of Chinese" and "Exclusion of Japanese Immigrants" while a figure representing Japan, a country who also has exclusion signs for China and Korea, watches. In the third panel, the same figure from Japan gestures with an angry face and Japanese Emigrants behind him, while Uncle Sam proudly shows off a sign welcoming only particular groups of Japanese people: tourists, students, scientists, etc.

Title: JM-314: Victories and defeat
Summary: Editorial cartoon in two panels: U.S. wins battles in Pacific, loses them in Atlantic.

Title: The Territorial papers of the United States, Volume 14. The territory of Louisiana-Missouri, 1806-1814, Territory of Louisiana-Missouri, 1802-1821
Date: 1948-51

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