- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Library. Public Policy Papers
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
- Title:
- Political Cartoon Collection
- Repository:
- Public Policy Papers
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/th83kz33s
- Dates:
- 1889-1944
- Size:
- 30 boxes and 2 items
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpph): Box 1-30
- Language:
- English
Abstract
This artificial collection consists of one thousand original drawings, including a significant number by Charles Lewis Bartholomew, Otho Cushing, Homer C. Davenport, John Tinney McCutcheon, and Frank Arthur Nankivell.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This artificial collection consists of one thousand original drawings, including a significant number by Charles Lewis Bartholomew, Otho Cushing, Homer C. Davenport, John Tinney McCutcheon, and Frank Arthur Nankivell. Other artists that are well represented include Louis Glackens, Harold Imbrie, Udo J. Keppler, Norman Ritchie, and Fred O. Seibel.
- Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by cartoonist.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Material in this collection is assembled from a number of different accessions throughout the years. Nineteen Derso and Kelen cartoons were added in summer 2012, accession number ML.2012.027. A 1931 Otto Cushing cartoon was added in summer 2014, accession number ML.2013.031. A World War II era comic strip produced by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was added in 2016, accession number ML.1000.007.
- Appraisal
This is an artificial collection. No materials have been separated.
- Processing Information
This is an unprocessed collection. Contents list updated by Adriane Hanson with the assistance of Jeremy Russell in 2010. Derso and Kelen cartoons in June 2012 accession were added to existing cartoons in Box 13 in 2012. A 1931 Otto Cushing cartoon was added to Box 10 in 2014. A World War II era comic strip produced by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was added to Box 29 in 2016.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
- Credit this material:
Political Cartoon Collection; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/th83kz33s
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpph): Box 1-30
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
FOR DIGITIZED CONTENT: Cartoons in this collection have been digitized and may be viewed or downloaded through this finding aid. To view each one, navigate to the individual item within this finding aid.
- Subject Terms:
- Caricatures and cartoons -- United States
Political satire, American. - Genre Terms:
- Cartoons (humorous images)
Cartoons (working drawings)
Drawings.
Editorial cartoons -- United States.
Political cartoons -- United States. - Names:
- Bartholomew, Charles Lewis, 1869-1949
Cushing, Otho, 1871-1942
Davenport, Homer, 1867-1912 - Places:
- United States -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons.
