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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-072: Wedding vows, now and then
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting six panels comparing and contrasting old fashioned weddings to contemporary ones, where the vows are temporary.

Title: JM-086: The captain and crew of the William P. Frye, which--
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a ship labeled the "William P. Frye" being sunk by a ship labeled the "Prinz Eitel Friederich." In the next panel, the crew of the Frye waves the Friederich ship on as it sails to open sea. British cruisers can be seen near the horizon line on the water. The William P. Frye was an American merchant vessel sunk in 1915 after encountering a German ship.

Title: JM-095: It's easy to get help when you don't need it and hard when you do
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man who is morose in first two panels; he sits with a notice about rent while four other men stare and talk among themselves. In the last two panels, set several years later, the man is smiling and in new clothes while at a job; the four other men run over to him with arms outstretched.

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-177: Winning the war
Summary: The cartoon depicts the personified Germany crawling his way across Europe during WWI, representing Germany’s military advances during the war. The top left panel is captioned, “words won’t win the war”. This meant words could not be used to cause the German surrender. The top right panel is captioned, “wishes won’t win the war”. The panel shows Americans watching Germany from across the Atlantic, wishing the German people would overthrow Kaiser Wilhelm II. The middle-left panel shows those same Americans shouting in outrage at the Germans over American deaths from the war. The panel is captioned, “wrath won’t win the war”. The middle-right panel shows Americans displaying the vast wealth available for a war effort. The panel is captioned, “wealth won’t the war”. The bottom panel shows the Germans finally being stopped after being hit with the butt of a gun. The panel is captioned, “But wallops will win the war!”. This cartoon suggests aggressive force was the only way for the United States to defeat Germany in WWI. This cartoon was created in 1917, and the US official participation in WWI was from 1916-1917. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-217: Next on the program will be a sprightly juggling act. 217
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two tariff orators--one from the GOP and the other from the Democratic Party--backstage preparing to face off in front of spectators.

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-060: A political discussion
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man and a woman sitting at a table, seemingly in conversation.

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: Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect, and climate: A primer
Date: 1984
Summary: The report summarizes the present state of knowledge with respect to research and assessment of carbon dioxide effects, articulating the areas of emerging consensus and continuing disagreement, and focusing attention on the crucial uncertainties. Key scientific, technical, and social issues of contemporary carbon dioxide/climate debate are identified, and the implications and options for dealing with the possible effects of carbon dioxide-induced climatic change are outlined.

Title: An analysis of U.S. energy program funding for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 in the era of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Date: 1986

Title: Alternative energy taxes: Industry, regional and national impacts
Date: 1986
Summary: A range of energy tax alternatives are discussed in this report. These tax alternatives cover the recent proposals for taxing energy to raise Treasury revenue and to achieve other energy policy goals. Each is evaluated in the context of various measures of economic impacts, varying from regional to macroeconomic, from ease of administration to income distribution.