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title: What did Alaska have that I don't mister?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-what-did-alaska-have-that-i-dont-mister-1959/
description: A bespectacled older man at a desk marked 'CONGRESS', blowing cigar smoke, bangs his fists while a woman in a hula skirt and lei.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** A stereotyped personification of Hawaii as a woman in a hula skirt and lei, shown as published in 1959. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![What did Alaska have that I don't mister?, 1959 US cartoon: A bespectacled older man at a desk marked 'CONGRESS', blowing](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-what-did-alaska-have-that-i-dont-mister-1959.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-what-did-alaska-have-that-i-dont-mister-1959.jpg)

# What did Alaska have that I don't mister?

A bespectacled older man at a desk marked 'CONGRESS', blowing cigar smoke, bangs his fists while a woman in a hula skirt and lei, the skirt lettered 'Latest Drive for Statehood', holds her hands up as though pushing back. The cartoon argues, through the personification of a territory, that Hawaii's statehood effort is seeking what Alaska recently obtained; the technique is a weak fit for card-stacking, as one side of the question is dramatised.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CONGRESS
LATEST DRIVE FOR STATEHOOD
JIM BERRYMAN
```

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