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title: Nearing the End (multi-panel convention sketches)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-nearing-the-end-1936/
description: 'A multi-panel page of convention sketches signed ''Jim Berryman, Phila., Pa.'': delegates carrying state placards for Roosevelt.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** A multi-panel convention page including a caricatured Black child figure labelled Topsy holding a beer mug, drawn with exaggerated features, as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Nearing the End, 1936 US cartoon: A multi-panel page of convention sketches signed 'Jim Berryman, Phila., Pa.': delegates](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-nearing-the-end-1936.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-nearing-the-end-1936.jpg)

# Nearing the End (multi-panel convention sketches)

A multi-panel page of convention sketches signed 'Jim Berryman, Phila., Pa.': delegates carrying state placards for Roosevelt, a caricatured figure labelled 'Topsy' with a beer mug, a man labelled 'The V.P.' carrying a bag into a 'Texas Welcomes You' headquarters, and a dazed man on a 'We Want Al Smith' sign. The slogan-carrying crowd is the nearest technique fit (bandwagon, weak): the cartoon records the display of support rather than itself urging it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TAKES DEMONSTRATIONS QUITE CALMLY.....
"TOPSY" IN THE MUMMERS PARADE HAD TO TAKE TIME OUT FOR A BEER...
TEXAS WELCOMES YOU
CHARLIE MICHELSON, PUBLICITY DIRECTOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, SEEMS PRETTY WELL SATISFIED AT THE WAY THINGS HAVE RUN OFF!
THE V.P. WASH. D.C.
WHAT A FUROR THIS "VISITOR" TO THE TEXAS HEADQUARTERS CAUSED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
THE "FORGOTTEN MAN" WAS FOUND-- STILL OUT COLD LONG AFTER THE OTHER AGITATORS HAD BEEN BOUNCED OUT!
WE WANT AL SMITH
THE SLOGAN-EERS ON PARADE -
NO. CAROLINA
GEORGIA
THE GRANITE STATE IS SOLID FOR FRANKLIN
3 HARD YEARS WITH HOOVER- 3 GOOD YEARS WITH ROOSEVELT IN MISSISSIPPI
Cool COLORADA Hot for ROOSEVELT
F.D.R. IS O.K. WITH OKLAHOMA
MICHIGAN RIDES WITH ROOSEVELT PEDESTRIANS BEWARE!
SO. DAKOTA
JIM BERRYMAN PHILA. PA.
```

[← And the Town Goes Round and Round](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/and-the-town-goes-round-and-round-berryman-1936/) [La Vanguardia, Sunday edition, front page (Barcelona, 16 August 1936): "En el frente de Tardienta" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-vanguardia-tardienta-1936/)

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