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
- Date
- June 23, 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Media and information
- Event
- 1936 US Election
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743106 (NAID 5743106).
Text on the object
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.
