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title: Untitled (National Park Service ranger bars a housing-seeker from Montezuma Castle)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/untitled-berryman-krug-housing-montezuma-castle-1946/
description: A National Park Service ranger holds up a hand to a sweating traveller labelled J. PUBLIC, who carries a bedroll and a bag of money.
section: Collection
---

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[![Untitled, 1946 US cartoon: A National Park Service ranger holds up a hand to a sweating traveller labelled J. PUBLIC, who](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/untitled-berryman-krug-housing-montezuma-castle-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/untitled-berryman-krug-housing-montezuma-castle-1946.jpg)

# Untitled (National Park Service ranger bars a housing-seeker from Montezuma Castle)

A National Park Service ranger holds up a hand to a sweating traveller labelled J. PUBLIC, who carries a bedroll and a bag of money, in front of the Montezuma Castle cliff dwelling and its signboard. The ranger says Secretary Krug will not let rooms be rented there however acute the housing situation. The everyman figure 'J. Public' is a plain-folks device; fit is weak, as the cartoon is mainly satire of an administrative rule.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
I'M SORRY, SIR, BUT
SECRETARY KRUG SAYS
NO MATTER HOW ACUTE
THE HOUSING SITUATION
MIGHT BECOME.....WE
CAN NOT RENT ROOMS
IN THERE!

MONTEZUMA CASTLE
NATIONAL MONUMENT
ANCIENT CLIFF-DWELLING
PROBABLY BUILT ABOUT
1000 A.D....ABANDONED
OVER 500 YEARS AGO....
Dept. of Interior

[labels:] NPS; J. PUBLIC; JIM BERRYMAN (VERDE VALLEY, ARIZ.)
```

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