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Editorial cartoons by various artists
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Editorial Cartoons
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Approx. 12 items. Includes a "Confidential Questionnaire for Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Also in the file are some letters to the Editor. One handwritten letter is an angry response to Times' coverage of Governor Reagan, alleging it to be "totally unfair and unjustified," and referring to Publisher Otis Chandler as "the young character running the Times." (Mr. Chandler was 40 at the time) In the same time frame, 1967, Walter Annenberg sent a note to James Bassett calling cartoonist Conrad--the target of much controversy--"talented," and expressing "enthusiastic admiration" for him. Correspondence discussing editorial cartoons and readership in more general terms.
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How You Can Study Original Drawings by America's Great Cartoonists
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One advertisement entitled How You Can Study Original Drawings by America's Great Cartoonists, published by The Reserve Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1920. On the verso of the advertisement is printed: "How You Can Study Original Drawings by Great Cartoonists". The sheet advertises "typical examples of the work of six famous American cartoonists, from which etchings have been made of the principal figures exactly the same size as in each original." The cartoonists represented are: "Donahey of 'The Cleveland Plain Dealer'; McCutcheon of 'The Chicago Tribune'; Frost in 'Collier's Weekly'; Davenport of 'The New York Journal'; May of 'The Cleveland Leader'; and Hoban of 'The New York Journal'". The set includes six proofs in a portfolio, for the price of $2.00. This advertisement is illustrated with three sample cartoons from three of the aforementioned cartoonists; the illustrations are in a vertical line along the right-hand side of the page.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Editorial cartoons
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8 items: letter, 9/19/1967, to Bassett from Walter Annenberg (publisher, ambassador) praising editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad ; 4/29/1969, Bassett to Douglas T. Moore, responding to complaint about a specific Conrad cartoon ; letter, 5/17/1969, to Bassett from Douglas T. Moore, critical of Conrad and LAT and attached handwritten letter, 4/21/1969, from Moore to Franklin Murphy (Chair, TM Board) ; letter, 6/2/1970, from Bassett to Allen Mansfield (Pacific Western Securities), responding to Mansfield's criticism of Conrad cartoons and attached letter from Mansfield to Frank Haven, Managing Editor, LAT, attached are two Conrad cartoons about Nixon.
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Collection of American cartoons, drawings and watercolors
Manuscripts
A collection of signed, mostly original cartoons, pen and ink drawings, and watercolors done by American cartoonists and artists at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The artists include, among others: Robert Carter, Frank Fowler, L.M. Glackens, F.M. Howarth, Clifford McBride, F.B. Opper, T.M. Peirce, H.W. Phillips, Ed Reed, W.B. Russell, F.H. Smith, M. Woolf, and Eugene Zimmerman. The collection also includes a drawing by E. Muller (1875) and a painting by F. Simon (1854).
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Editorial cartoon proof sheets
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence and literary manuscripts authored by Lute Pease and others, biographical material about the Pease family (including a scrapbook by Lute Pease), several sketches by Pease, and many samples of Pease's editorial cartoons. A number of letters in the collection describe Pease's life in the Yukon and in Alaska as well as his tenure as editor of The Pacific monthly.
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Articles and biographical notes on cartoon artists
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The American political cartoons collection contains approximately 530 printed items relating to politics in the United States from approximately 1767 to approximately 1950, with the bulk of the items dating from 1840 to 1870. Most items are engravings, but some lithographs are also included. The collection highlights both well-known and less recognized American political figures. Subjects addressed by the collection include American governance, presidents and politicians, and the American Civil War, as well as caricature and cartooning in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable printers represented in the collection are Henry R. Robinson, Currier & Ives, and E. W. Kemble. There is also a set of 58 cartoons from San Francisco based satirical magazine The Wasp; all are from 1881, and most by George Frederick Keller.
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