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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-084: Brittania boasts about subsidizing merchant marine, while Uncle Sam stands by unused merchant marine
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting figure representing Britannia standing on a boat with fleet of British ships behind him. He tells Uncle Sam, who is standing on non-moving ships decorated with cobwebs, that he subsidizes his merchant marine. Uncle Sam replies that he does not.

Title: JM-C017: The wrong girl [4]
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a women standing in a sitting room or bedroom and staring at a door, possibly at a mirror or through glass. She holds a newspaper in her hand.

Title: JM-C007: Cheering crowd at a football game
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the crowd at a football game. All of the audience members are cheering or waving flags, except for one man who is seen working on his nails.

Title: JM-323: The bonds of matrimony and government war bonds
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicts people rushing to get married. They are unsure whether to invest in war bonds.

Title: JM-226: They're off!. 226
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the presidential race of 1924, with candidates Robert M. La Follette Sr. with the Progressive Party, John W. Davis of the Democratic Party, and Calvin Coolidge of the Republican Party, who won the election and became the president of the United States that year.

Title: JM-157: Death takes a man named "Bobs"
Summary: This cartoon depicts Lord Roberts, a prestigious military officer from Great Britain who served all around the world, most heavily in India. Lord Roberts was greatly respected by his colleagues, and he was admired by the common people of Britain. He was also one of the few military officers who warned of the impending war with Germany -- World War I -- as early as 1908. In this cartoon, Lord Roberts is identified by his nickname, "Bobs" on the front of his uniform. This cartoon shows Lord Roberts being led away by death. Death himself has his head hanging while carrying what is assumed to be Lord Roberts' sword. This is a portrayal of his death when visiting Indian soldiers fighting at the front at St. Olmer’s in France during World War I. Lord Roberts contracted pneumonia and died shortly after contracting the disease. John McCutcheon personally knew Lord Roberts and described him as "as an alert and spry little man with ruddy cheeks, courteous and deferential to the degree of courtier, energetic in his manners and conversation, and with a character as beautiful and lovable as some ancient hero drawn with the pen of an idealist." This cartoon depicts one of the millions of lives lost in World War I. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-096: Some people would rather believe the bad things they hear about a man than the good things
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting four panels set inside a lounge. In the first two, the two men seated together are speaking about the third man seated in the room. The man with the mustache in the dark suit tells the other man about several impressive achievements accomplished by the third man in the room, but the man he is talking to finds some refute to his claims. In the third panel, the mustached man in the dark suit shares a rumor he heard about the third man's accounts not being completely honorable, which the other man immediately believes; and he walks over to share with a newcomer to the lounge room in the fourth panel.

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-307: The anti-war Americans, being in the great majority, have a right to be heard
Summary: Uncle Sam and majority oppose war, peace rally is held at Soldier Field.

Title: JM-159: The value of ideals. 159
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting William Jennings Bryan lecturing to earn money in the aftermath of his loss in the 1900 senatorial election. Bryan charged $500 per speech or lecture, and he was the most popular speaker on the Chautauqua circuit from 1900 to 1912.

Title: JM-050: As bad as the muck rake man is the man who looks no higher than money
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man crawling on his hands and knees in a trench and filling bags with coins. A sign above his head shows that he is headed toward the cemetery. Above the edge of the trench, other people can be seen doing outdoor activities, such as golfing.

Title: JM-013: The Changing World
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes showing contrasting different periods of time. In the top two panels, Wilson is shown first speaking to a cheering crowd in contrast to speaking inside a room with unenthusiastic people listening. In the middle two panels, the Arc de Triomphe is shown first in a barren landscape in contrast with lots of people marching in a procession through the Arc, cheering and waving flags. The final two panels shows a boy reading "A Story of the Plains" while sitting on a haystack in contrast to a boy reading the same story on a comfortable chair.

Title: JM-051: Important news from the front! (Lake front)
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a soldier on guard duty halting his girlfriend while an older officer watches.

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-303: Crime crowd protests against Thomas Dewey
Summary: Crooks protest against Dewey, "N.Y.'s Racket Busting D.A.".

Title: JM-C012: Fine imported ciggars and tobacco
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a crowd of men laughing and staring at a man painting "Fine imported ciggars and tobacco" on a store window.

Title: JM-005: Why cotton goods are so high
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam announcing that the price of wheat should be fixed as a war measure and being met with agreement. In the next panel, he suggests fixing the price of cotton for the same reason, and the "Southern Democrats in control of Congress" get angry at the suggestion.

Title: JM-238: World Court Tribunal. 238
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam at the World Court Tribunal.

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.

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