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London Print Shop
George M. Woodward (ca. 1760–1809). Caricature Curiosity II. London: William Holland, 1806. Reproduction from published hand-colored etching. Purchase, 1921. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (1)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-30755]
French Social Satire
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879). Le Jardin des Plantes à Pékin—Les Chinois admirant beaucoup un quadrupéd de France et un bipède du même pays. . . . (The Botanic Garden at Peking—The Chinese admire a quadruped from France and a biped from the same country. . . . ). Published in Le Charivari, May 13, 1854. Reproduction from original, hand-colored lithograph. Purchase, 1932. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (2)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-cph-3g04464]
Lincoln’s Civil War Policies
Joseph E. Baker (1837–1914). Columbia Demands Her Children! Boston, 1864. Reproduction from original lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (3)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-15768]
Commentary on World War I
Boardman Robinson (1876–1952). Europe 1916. Published in The Masses, October, 1916. Reproduction from original drawing in lithographic crayon, ink, and opaque white. Swann Memorial Fund purchase, 1993. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (4)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-30754]
Flapper
Russell Patterson (1896–1977). Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire, ca. 1920. Reproduction from original drawing in India, red, and brown inks with watercolor. Gift and bequest from Caroline and Erwin Swann, 1977. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (5)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-01589]
Gasoline Alley
Frank King (1883–1969). Gasoline Alley. “This is the life, Skeezix!” 1923. Published in the Chicago Tribune, June 24, 1923. ©1923, Chicago Tribune. Reproduction from original drawing in India ink, watercolor, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing. Gift/Purchase, Art Wood, 2001. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (6)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-03292]
Impossible Interviews
Miguel Covarrubias (1904–1957). John D. Rockefeller Senior vs. Josef Stalin, 1932. Published in Vanity Fair, April, 1932. Reproduction from original drawing in gouache. Gift and bequest from Caroline and Erwin Swann, 1977. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (7)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-10858]
Civil Rights in Russia
Bill Mauldin (1921–2003). “I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?” 1958. Published October 30, 1958. Reproduction from original drawing in ink, crayon, and opaque white over graphite. Gift of the artist, 1975. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (8)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-03231]
Jules Feiffer’s Signature Character
Jules Feiffer (b. 1929). Feiffer. A Dance to Summer, 1964. Published in The Village Voice, June 25, 1964. Reproduction from original drawing in ink over graphite underdrawing with paste-on. Gift of the artist, 2001. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (9)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsc-00183]
Caricature of S. J. Perelman
David Levine (1926–2009). S. J. Perelman, 1978. Published in The New York Review of Books, April 6, 1978. Reproduction from original drawing in ink. Gift of Richard Rommelman, 1980. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (10)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-30756]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Gustaf Tenggren (1896–1970). [Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs], ca. 1937. Reproduction from original drawing in watercolor and ink. Gift/Purchase, Art Wood, 2001. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (11)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-03342]
Liberty's Fate
Anita Kunz (b. 1956). Climber, 2000. Published in The New Yorker, July 3, 2000. Reproduction from original drawing in gouache. Gift of the artist, 2008. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (12)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-22141]
Race Relations
Oliver W. Harrington (1912–1995). Dark Laughter.“The teacher says that everyone can git to be president. Then how come the whole class falls out laughin’ when I tell ‘em that’s my dream,” 1960. Published in the Pittsburgh Courier, August 6, 1960 as “But what I don't understand is why. . . .” Reproduction from original drawing in ink, graphite and crayon. Swann Memorial Fund purchase, 1995. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (13)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsc-05882]
First Spider-Man Cartoon
Steve Ditko (b. 1927). Spider-Man! 1962. Published in Amazing Fantasy, August 1962. Reproduction from original drawing in ink, opaque white, and overlay over graphite underdrawing. Gift from an anonymous donor, 2008. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (14)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-18747]
Afghan Women
Ann Telnaes (b. 1960). Aim Carefully, Please, October 2, 2001. Reproduction from original drawing in ink over graphite and blue pencil underdrawing. Gift of the artist, 2002. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (15)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-01970]
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