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Questioning the Power of the Press (005.00.00)

Questioning the Power of the Press
Art Young (1866–1943). Freedom of the Press, ca. 1912. Published in The Masses, December 1912. India ink over graphite underdrawing. Purchase, 2006–2007. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-19519]

Urban Anxieties (006.00.00)

Urban Anxieties
Winsor McCay (1867–1934). Bootleg Whisky, Crime, Dope, ca. 1920s. Probably published in New York American, ca. 1920s. Ink and blue pencil over graphite underdrawing on layered paper. Gift of Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2001. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-cph-3g13031]

Winsor McCay. Technocracy, 1933. Published in San Francisco Examiner, April 2, 1933. Ink and blue pencil over graphite underdrawing on layered paper. Gift of Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2001. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-31363]

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Reginald Marsh (1898–1954). “Metropolis”—at the Rialto, ca. 1920s. Published in the New Yorker as That New German Film at the Rialto, March 26, 1927. Charcoal and ink on paper. Swann Memorial Fund purchase, 2001. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00)

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Britain Faces Nazi Threat
Leslie Illingworth (1902–1979). [The Challenge], 1939. Published in Punch as The Combat, November 6, 1939. Watercolor, ink, charcoal, and graphite on paper. Swann Memorial Fund purchase, 2009. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)

Attention Voters! (010.00.00)

Attention Voters!
Anne Mergen (1906–1994). What’s Wrong with this Picture? between 1940 and 1952. Graphite and ink brush over graphite underdrawing on paper. Gift of Matthew Bernhardt and Christine Hoverman, 2006. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-22147]

Youthful Perspective on Brown vs. Board of Education (011.00.00)

Youthful Perspective on Brown vs. Board of Education
Oliver Wendell Harrington (1912–1995). Bootsie. “Yeah, but did you guys ever stop to realize if they let us go to their schools we’re liable to wind up just as confused as those governors an’ judges!” Published in the Pittsburgh Courier, September 13, 1958. Crayon and graphite on paper. Art Wood gift/ purchase, 2003. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
© Harrington Estate
[Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-06448]

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