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Propaganda cartoons
157 objects, listed by date.
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United States"State Mining" Jackson campaign lithograph (1828)Content note
United States"Curse the d--d congress committee and their guns!" (anti-Bank print, 1832)
United States"Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser" (pro-Jackson print, 1832)
United States"Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"Content note
United States"Set-to between the champion Old Tip & the swell Dutchman of Kinderhook", 1836Content note
United States"Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836
United States'Going up Salt River', Van Buren-friendly cartoon published by John Childs, 1840
United States'The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840
United StatesLoco Foco Triumphal Honors (pro-Whig cartoon), 1844Content note
United StatesPolk & Co. Going Up Salt River (pro-Clay cartoon), 1844
United StatesPolk in His Extremity (pro-Clay cartoon), 1844
United StatesTexas Coming In (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844
United StatesTreeing Coons (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844
United StatesTyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844Content note
United States'Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty...' (Free Soil cartoon, Currier), 1848Content note
United States"The Balls Are Rolling - Clear the Track" (Currier, 1856)
United States"'Buck' taking the 'Pot'" (Currier, 1856)
United States"The Grand National Fight" (Democratic print, 1856)Content note
United States"The Great Presidential Sweepstakes of 1856" (Currier)Content note
United States"The Right Man for the Right Place" (Currier, 1856)
United Kingdom"The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger" (Punch, 1857)
United States"The undecided political prize fight" (anonymous, 1860)Content note
United KingdomPunch, 'The Jamaica Question' (Tenniel), 23 December 1865Content note
ParaguayToma! Y qué hacen aquí esos tres? (Look! And What Are These Three Doing Here?), El Centinela cartoonContent note
United StatesBlood Will Tell! The Great Race for the Presidential Sweepstakes
United StatesLeaders of the Democratic Party: The Rioter Seymour, the Butcher Forrest, the Pirate Semmes, the Hangman HamptonContent note
United StatesThe Great American TannerContent note
United StatesThe Great November Contest. Patriotism versus BummerismContent note
United StatesJacobin Radical Republican Record: a legacy for the people! $2,700,000,000 debt!! an expensive luxuryContent note
United StatesThe Radical Party on a Heavy Grade
United StatesRe-construction, or 'a white man's government'Content note
United StatesThe Republican Platform, or the Political MountebankContent note
United StatesThis Is a White Man's GovernmentContent note
FranceL'Homme a la boule (Draner), French caricature of a Prussian leader on a globe
United StatesGrant to Hayes - I guess that reform bait wont work this side. Better try an anti-Catholic wormContent note
United StatesInspecting the Democratic Curiosity Shop (Puck cartoon, c. 1880)Content note
United StatesThe Appomattox of the Third Termers: Unconditional Surrender (Puck cover, 16 June 1880)
United StatesA Weak Ticket in the Field and a Weaker Expected (Puck cover, 16 June 1880)
United StatesThe Factors of the Greenback-Labor-Socialist-Woman-Suffrage Party (Frank Leslie's, 3 July 1880)
United StatesWhere Both Platforms Agree: No Vote, No Use to Either Party (Puck cover, 14 July 1880)Content note
United StatesBlaine O'Maine
United StatesThe receiving-vault of the Republican politicians who defied public morality
United StatesThe "three honest men" of Wall Street declare for Blaine
United StatesA flag the Independents will fight underContent note
United StatesThe new Democratic eucalyptus tree purifies a political morass
United StatesA little private mutual admiration scheme, - Joss Ben and his only priest, Sun-SunContent note
United StatesThe bogus workingman and his lonsome boomContent note
United States"Blaine will be vindicated in November" -- N.Y. Tribune
United StatesAnother voice for ClevelandContent note
United StatesShylock's bad bargainContent note
United States"The Mulligan guard lies, but - surrenders"
United States"The Germans supported me nobly" -- J.G. Blaine
Empire of BrazilA nova espada que o governo pretende apresentar ao exército (The New Sword the Government Means to Present to the Army)Content note
United StatesNot as heavy as Grover, perhaps, but then I have more lemons
United StatesSaved! The Republican Party throws its protecting shield over American laborContent note
United StatesThe consumer consumed
United StatesThe difference between trimming a hedge and cutting it down
United StatesThe goose that lays the golden eggs
United States"Goods will be so much cheaper"--Democratic argument. But what will become of all the American industries?
Kingdom of PortugalEntre um ministro e um larapio (Between a Minister and a Pilferer), Os Pontos nos ii
United KingdomThe Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon
United StatesThe People's Party Convention - delegates who were not in it
United StatesThe champion ready for another bout
United StatesHarrison and Reid, and the people
United KingdomThe Rhodes Colossus: striding from Cape Town to Cairo (Punch, 10 December 1892)
VenezuelaEn posesión de su presa (In Possession of Its Prey)
Belgium"Petite scène du Congo": Brussels humorous-paper cartoon on the hanging of Stokes, reproduced in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1895Content note
Empire of Japan日清戰爭笑樂画會 (Comics of the Sino-Japanese War): 黄海のきづ and 尻へ帆 (Wounds of the Yellow Sea; Sails on the Rear)Content note
British India'The Congress Cross or "Swastik"' (Pickings from the Hindi Punch, Bombay, February 1896)
SpainMáquinas para fabricar yankées (Machines for Manufacturing Yankees)
United StatesCoronation of the autocrat of protection (Puck)
United StatesThe boss of the bosses (Puck)
United StatesThe silver-tongued ventriloquist and his dummies (Puck)
United StatesTrue democracy is safe! (Puck)
United StatesWell protected (Puck)
United StatesLast ghost-dance of the free silver tribe (Puck)Content note
SpainEl soldado de Cuba: —¡Ven tú, cobarde! (The Soldier of Cuba: 'Come here, you coward!')Content note
United StatesRemember the Maine! And Don't Forget the Starving Cubans! (Judge)
FranceLe Sifflet, cover (Paris, 14 July 1898): "Après les fameuses révélations de M. Cavaignac" (After M. Cavaignac's Famous Revelations)Content note
FranceLes Anglais au Siam, en Égypte, au Soudan et autres lieux (The English in Siam, Egypt, the Sudan and Other Places), La France illustrée
FrancePsst...!, page (Paris, 31 December 1898): "Au parc Monceau" (In the Parc Monceau)Content note
United States"School Begins" (Puck, 1899)Content note
United States"The White Man's Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)" (Judge, 1899)Content note
United StatesA Pretty Tough Mouthful to Swallow: Kruger as Porcupine
United StatesThe Beginning and the End: Oom Paul's Ultimatum to John Bull
German Empire"England and the War in South Africa" (Der wahre Jacob, 1899)
FranceDel-Lâchoda devant l'Angleterre (Musée des Horreurs no. 21)
United StatesA Long Range Assault: Puck cover on the French press and the Transvaal, 3 January 1900
France"Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900)
United StatesMcKinley's Easter Egg (Puck, 18 April 1900)
United StatesThe Ill-Fated Sister: A Case of Unjust Discrimination (Puck, 25 April 1900)Content note
United StatesTake Your Choice (Judge, 12 May 1900)
United StatesReckless Defiance: France and Russia Against Britain
United StatesA Two-Edged Record (Puck centerfold, 13 June 1900)
United States"Negro Rule" vampire cartoon with sworn affidavitContent note
United StatesSwallowed! (Puck centerfold, 11 July 1900)
United StatesHe Shouts for Bryan, but This Is the Way He Will Vote (Puck cover, 25 July 1900)
United StatesThe Promised Feast (Puck centerfold, 8 August 1900)
United StatesThe Vote of the Gold Democrats; Their Country's Welfare Before Their Party's Welfare (Puck, 12 September 1900)
United States'Are our teachings, then, in vain?' (Keppler, Puck, 3 October 1900)Content note
United KingdomMany Happy Returns - of the Gold to the Rightful Owners (Tom Browne, The Sketch)
United StatesTake Your Choice of the Two Bills! (Judge cover, 13 October 1900)
United States"The Aguinaldo Guard" (Puck, 1900)
United StatesThe Teddy Idea of a Vice-President Who Would "Do Things" (The Verdict, 29 October 1900)
ArgentinaChile como el cuervo de la fábula (Chile as the Raven of the Fable)
NetherlandsDe politieke heksenkeuken (The Political Witches' Kitchen)
United States"Kill Every One Over Ten" (New York Evening Journal, 1902)Content note
FranceLa fin de la guerre anglo-boer ou Donnant donnant (Alfred Le Petit, Le Grelot)
British IndiaHindi Punch, weekly, cartoon page (Bombay, January 1904): 'United We Stand: Divided We Fall!'Content note
United States"The Yellow Peril" (Puck, 1904)Content note
Kingdom of Italy"Il congresso socialista di Bologna" (L'Asino cover, 1904)
BrazilGuerra Vaccino-Obrigateza! (Compulsory-Vaccination War!), O Malho cartoon
SpainAl Frontón Condal: El Banquet de la Victoria (At the Frontón Condal), ¡Cu-Cut!
United KingdomPrivate Property: No Admittance to Philanthropists (Congo State), F. C. Gould
United Kingdom"In the Rubber Coils" (Punch, 1906)Content note
United States"As to Japanese Exclusion" (Puck cover, 13 March 1907)Content note
United States"The Scarecrow of the Pacific" (Puck, 1907)Content note
United States"The War with Japan" (Puck cover, 23 October 1907)
EgyptThe Cairo Punch: The English Councillors (Sir Eldon Gorst and the ministers)
EgyptThe Modern Civilization of Europe: France in Morocco & England in Egypt (Cairo Punch supplement)Content note
Ottoman EmpireKalem cartoon of Abdulhamid II and his secretary ("Il y a mis du temps, mais il a compris")
Ottoman EmpireKalem cover: Le Chef de l'Armée Libératrice (Mahmud Şevket Pasha)
Russian EmpirePersidsk. konstitutsiya (Persian Constitution): the Swan, the Pike and the Crab, Molla Nasreddin, 1910
United States"Keep off! Monroe doctrine" (T. E. Powers, 1912)Content note
United States"The Feminine of Jekyll and Hyde" (Puck, 1913)
United StatesThe unemployed
United States"Women are too sentimental for jury duty" -- Anti-Suffrage argument (Puck cartoon)Content note
United States"I did not raise my girl to be a voter"
UruguayActualidad obrera: Como quisiera ver, el «socialista» Piria a sus obreros en huelga (Workers' Affairs: How I'd Like to See the "Socialist" Piria with His Striking Workers)
Switzerland"Propheten einer neuen Welt" (Nebelspalter cartoon, 1918)
United StatesNow for a round-up
Weimar Germany"Die Wiege des Völkerbundes" (Simplicissimus cartoon, 1919)
BrazilAs duas imprensas (The Two Presses)
Kingdom of EgyptCall for Freedom and Independence with Support for Saad and Safiya Zaghlul (al-Siyasa al-Musawwara)
United States"It's none of the public's business"
United States"Swear!"
Fascist ItalyIl Becco Giallo cartoon 'Tombola!' on the Matteotti murder, Rome, 1925
France"La guerre du Maroc, suite": Painlevé orders forged Zinoviev letters (L'Humanité, 21 June 1925)
China東江陳軍餉械 英國 (Chen's East River Army: Pay and Arms, Britain), Canton newspaper cartoon
China不澈底的重建 (An Incomplete Reconstruction), Beiyang Huabao no. 116
Weimar GermanyEulenspiegel cover, July 1928: 'Caesar Mussolini' by Charles GirodContent note
Soviet UnionStalin's Pipe (Trubka Stalina)Content note
China蛇鼠同巢之擴大会議 (Snakes and Rats in One Nest: The Enlarged Conference), cartoon from Xinsheng magazine no. 12
BrazilOs "gigolôs" da Velha República (The "Gigolos" of the Old Republic)
Mandatory PalestinePalestine Entangled by World Jewry (Falastin newspaper cartoon)Content note
China打死汪精衛,打死漢奸們! (Beat Wang Jingwei to death, beat the traitors to death!), Kangweijun Pictorial vol. 1 no. 3
Slovak RepublicChurchill and Stalin, 14-23 August (Dieppe), Ľudové novinyContent note
Slovak RepublicKam to dotiahnu? (Where will they get to?), Ľudové novinyContent note
Empire of JapanCrosses in the Wake of Allied Blockade, Japan Times & Advertiser cartoon
Empire of JapanCartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)Content note
Empire of JapanCover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
East GermanyCaricature panel of a US soldier with workers at an exit door, Rössing photographContent note
IranShooresh cartoon on the 1953 dissolution referendum: "155544 votes in favour" and opponents before gallowsContent note
East GermanyAdenauer and Krupp cartoon boards, open-air display, Rathausstrasse, East BerlinContent note
United StatesDemoralization Leaflet 26: Gạo Bắc Việt (North Vietnamese Rice) cartoonContent note
United StatesLooked like everybody in Africa was in there waitin' for us!, Ollie Harrington, Daily World cartoon, c.1975
United StatesACA Comic Strips: He's Too Hip And He's Covered (HealthCare.gov)