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title: And the Town Goes Round and Round
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/and-the-town-goes-round-and-round-berryman-1936/
description: A large smiling figure in colonial dress, wearing a hat marked PHILADELPHIA and carrying a sign reading F.D.R..
section: Collection
---

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[![And the Town Goes Round and Round, 1936 US cartoon: A large smiling figure in colonial dress, wearing a hat marked](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/and-the-town-goes-round-and-round-berryman-1936.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/and-the-town-goes-round-and-round-berryman-1936.jpg)

# And the Town Goes Round and Round

A large smiling figure in colonial dress, wearing a hat marked PHILADELPHIA and carrying a sign reading F.D.R., spins at the centre of a whirl of marching drummers, a cowboy, a donkey and a dancer, ringed by vignettes of convention figures with captions. The figure of Philadelphia stands in for the host city and borrows colonial-era imagery for a party convention; the fit with the technique is weak, as the cartoon is chiefly a light, descriptive convention-week feature.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
I'M AFRAID I KNOW
EVERY NEWSPAPERMAN
IN THE WORLD!.....

JIM PRESTON IS
GENERAL ASSISTANT
TO EVERYBODY.....

MRS. J. BORDEN
HARRIMAN, OFFICIAL HOSTESS OF THE CONVENTION
SCANS THE SEATING CHART OF THE HALL.....

THE SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA
SPENT MOST OF HIS FIRST DAY
IN PHILLY ON THE "PHOTOG'S
FIRING LINE"...

[labels:] PHILADELPHIA; F.D.R.; JIM BERRYMAN, PHILA. PENNA.
```

[← Marble plaque quoting Mussolini's 9 May 1936 empire speech, Catania](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/il-popolo-italiano-ha-creato-limpero-catania-1936/) [Nearing the End (multi-panel convention sketches) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-nearing-the-end-1936/)

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