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title: Deep in the Heart of Texas
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas-1958/
description: A totem pole topped by a bird, with a winged board reading 'Alaska largest state in the Union' and two carved faces.
section: Collection
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**Content note:** 1958 US newspaper cartoon using a totem pole as a symbol of Alaska statehood, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Deep in the Heart of Texas, 1958 US cartoon: A totem pole topped by a bird, with a winged board reading 'Alaska largest state](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas-1958.jpg)

# Deep in the Heart of Texas

A totem pole topped by a bird, with a winged board reading 'Alaska largest state in the Union' and two carved faces, plunges point-first into a map of Texas like a pen nib, splashing ink. The cartoon uses a totem as a symbol of Alaska to show it displacing Texas as the largest state; the technique is transfer, a symbol standing for the place, a weak fit.

## 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

```
ALASKA LARGEST STATE IN THE UNION
JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
```

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