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Background imageCartoon Collection: Awful Changes

Awful Changes
A cartoon, published in 1830, 28 years before Darwins Origin Of Species, lampooning theories of evolution. Entitled Awful Changes, it depicts an Ichthyosaurus giving a lecture on a human skull

Background imageCartoon Collection: Victorian man driving a horse and cart

Victorian man driving a horse and cart
Vintage engraving of Victorian man driving a horse and cart. Strange Adventures of a Dog cart, by Randolph Caldecott

Background imageCartoon Collection: The Sleeping Congregation, William Hogarth

The Sleeping Congregation, William Hogarth
Vintage engraving of The Sleeping Congregation, William Hogarth. Interior of a church where the congregation sleeps as the clergyman reads from the gospel

Background imageCartoon Collection: Victorian satirical cartoon capitalism and the middleman

Victorian satirical cartoon capitalism and the middleman
Vintage engraving of a victorian satirical cartoon, 19th Century. The Satires of Cynicus. capitalism and the middleman

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon, cuckoo clock with hands pointing to nine o clock

Cartoon, cuckoo clock with hands pointing to nine o clock

Background imageCartoon Collection: William Hogarth Characters and Caricatures

William Hogarth Characters and Caricatures
Vintage engraving of William Hogarth Characters and Caricatures. Critics had sometimes dismissed the exaggerated features of Hogarths characters as caricature and, by way of an answer

Background imageCartoon Collection: Humour rain umbrella St. Swithin 19th century cartoon

Humour rain umbrella St. Swithin 19th century cartoon
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated November 1st, 1829

Background imageCartoon Collection: The kill at a Victorian fox hunt

The kill at a Victorian fox hunt
The horrible aftermath of the kill at a Victorian fox hunt, with the hounds tearing pieces from the corpse and a jubilant huntsman dancing a jig with the unfortunate foxas brush

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon, pilot flying green open-topped aeroplane among clouds and waving

Cartoon, pilot flying green open-topped aeroplane among clouds and waving, his scarf rustling in wind, side view

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon of senior woman in nightdress and slippers standing on one leg in pain from paraesthesia

Cartoon of senior woman in nightdress and slippers standing on one leg in pain from paraesthesia, or pins and needles, in raised foot

Background imageCartoon Collection: September - Cockney Sportsmen

September - Cockney Sportsmen
A group of Cockney sportsmen, out in the wilds of east London, causing chaos as they try to shoot birds. Even their retrieving dogs would rather fight amongst themselves

Background imageCartoon Collection: Victorian satirical cartoon, He shall have little for his pains

Victorian satirical cartoon, He shall have little for his pains
Vintage engraving of a Victorian satirical cartoon on the Art Dealer. He shall have little for his pains, Who makes his living by his brains

Background imageCartoon Collection: Palmyra palm trees on the beach of Ceylon

Palmyra palm trees on the beach of Ceylon
Illustration of Palmyra palm trees on the beach of Ceylon

Background imageCartoon Collection: Illustration of a fox dressed in suit and top hat

Illustration of a fox dressed in suit and top hat

Background imageCartoon Collection: Foxhounds invading a Victorian house

Foxhounds invading a Victorian house
A member of the local fox hunt has followed the foxhounds into a smart house - thankfully, without his horse - where the behaviour of the hounds is causing considerable uproar

Background imageCartoon Collection: Womens Vote

Womens Vote
1853: A cartoon about the effects of giving women the vote with the ladies candidate being a dashing young man and the mens just the opposite

Background imageCartoon Collection: Victorian satirical cartoon - The modern damsel

Victorian satirical cartoon - The modern damsel
Vintage engraving of a Victorian satirical cartoon. The modern damsel

Background imageCartoon Collection: Humour social comment the ale house cartoon by Cruikshank

Humour social comment the ale house cartoon by Cruikshank
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated 1832

Background imageCartoon Collection: Illustration, smiling pig standing, side view

Illustration, smiling pig standing, side view

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon, smiling ginger Cat (Felis sylvestris catus) with blue collar, sitting with tail curled up

Cartoon, smiling ginger Cat (Felis sylvestris catus) with blue collar, sitting with tail curled up

Background imageCartoon Collection: Green Shelby Cobra Roadster

Green Shelby Cobra Roadster
A vector illustration of a classic Shelby Cobra Roadster. Saved in layers for easy editing

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon on President Grover Cleveland Gazing into Pond

Cartoon on President Grover Cleveland Gazing into Pond
(Original Caption) Ah! This Is Love!

Background imageCartoon Collection: Woodcut of the Confederate Army Recruiting

Woodcut of the Confederate Army Recruiting
ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Drumming up recruits for the Confederate Army. Woodcut from 1861.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Ridiculing Oil Speculation

Cartoon Ridiculing Oil Speculation
(Original Caption) 1865-"Gulltown in an Uproar!" Cartoon ridiculing wild speculation in oil stocks after first exploitation of Pennsylvania oil fields. Lithograph.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Caricature of the Human Ear

Caricature of the Human Ear
(Original Caption) 1869- Picture shows Richard Wagner enlarging the human ear so that it can comprehend his "Music of the Future." Caricature from Eclipse 1869 by Andre Gill. BPA2# 1178.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Mr. Bergh to the Rescue Cartoon by Thomas Nast

Mr. Bergh to the Rescue Cartoon by Thomas Nast
In this cartoon, the gorilla says, "That man wants to claim my pedigree. He says he is one of my descendants." Mr. Bergh (the founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) replies

Background imageCartoon Collection: Inflation Killing the Democrats

Inflation Killing the Democrats
(Original Caption) 1876- "The Dead Lock- and Now the Democratic Tiger has Lost His Head." Political Cartoon on inflation showing a Tiger, representative of the Democratics

Background imageCartoon Collection: France as Victim of Triple Alliance

France as Victim of Triple Alliance
(Original Caption) 1883- France as a victim of the Triple Alliance and the blind dreams of an African Empire. Cartoon.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon, Statue Of Liberty with Advertising

Cartoon, Statue Of Liberty with Advertising
(Original Caption) 1885-"Let the advertising agents take charge of the Bartholdi business, and the money will be raised without delay." Photo shows advertising hung all-over the Bartholdi-built

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon on Journalism

Cartoon on Journalism
(Original Caption) American publication in German on journalism.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Tossing the Anarchist in the Red Flag

Tossing the Anarchist in the Red Flag
(Original Caption) 1887- "The Latest Chicago idea: Tossing the anarchist in his own blanket, the red flag."

Background imageCartoon Collection: Caricature of the Triple Alliance

Caricature of the Triple Alliance
(Original Caption) 10/1888- Cartoon from "Punch" showing the members of the Triple Alliance as the three daughters of Zeus who control human destiny, in this case the fate of Europe.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Suggestion for Aerial Warfare

Suggestion for Aerial Warfare
(Original Caption) Aerial warfare: A suggestion from a military correspondent who has seen Professor Baldwin's descent. "Military Parachute landing? It just can't be done." Woodcut, 1888. BPA2# 5367

Background imageCartoon Collection: Political Cartoon Depicting Foreign Affairs

Political Cartoon Depicting Foreign Affairs
(Original Caption) Circumstances Alter Cases! British Lion: "Well, I'll be blowed if that greedy Yankee Eagle hain't trying to spread himself all over Hamerica!"

Background imageCartoon Collection: Threat of Strike Between Capital and Knights of Labor - Cartoon

Threat of Strike Between Capital and Knights of Labor - Cartoon
(Original Caption) Cartoon by Filiam, 1890. The threat of a strike between Capital and the Knights of Labor.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Satire, Uncle Sam Collects Income Tax

Satire, Uncle Sam Collects Income Tax
(Original Caption) 1895: An income tax cartoon by F. Opper. showing Uncle Sam accepting checks from tax evaders, (left to right): Russell Sage, Hetty Green, and George Gould

Background imageCartoon Collection: Englishman Makes Money As Turks Invade

Englishman Makes Money As Turks Invade
(Original Caption) 1895: A political cartoon showing an Englishman (John Bull), carrying a huge bag labeled, "England's commercial interests in the Orient." He watches as a Turkish sultan threatens a

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Depicting Democrats and Republicans on Weak Platform

Cartoon Depicting Democrats and Republicans on Weak Platform
(Original Caption) That Wicked Little Farmer Boy.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon of World Powers Policing Greece

Cartoon of World Powers Policing Greece
(Original Caption) 1897: A political cartoon satirizing the trouble that the world's powers (England, Austria, Russia, Germany, Italy, and France), are having in dealing with Greece

Background imageCartoon Collection: Uncle Sam and Don Quixote Face Off on Cuba

Uncle Sam and Don Quixote Face Off on Cuba
(Original Caption) German cartoon from April 1898. Uncle Sam and Don Quixote, who represents Spain, face off while stepping on the island of Cuba.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon-'Trusts' Bronco Busting In West

Cartoon-"Trusts" Bronco Busting In West
(Original Caption) Trusts: "Bronco busting in the west. Amuses us and don't hurt the boss." Cartoon by W.A. Rogers in Harpers Weekly, April 18, 1903.

Background imageCartoon Collection: The Plum-Pudding in Danger Cartoon by James Gillray

The Plum-Pudding in Danger Cartoon by James Gillray
A political cartoon of Prime Minister William Pitt and Napoleon Bonaparte dividing up the globe, almost certainly after the Peace of Amiens in 1802

Background imageCartoon Collection: The 'Wellington' Boot

The "Wellington" Boot
(Original Caption) Contemporary cartoon called, "A Wellington Boot." SEE NOTE

Background imageCartoon Collection: The Original American Standard

The Original American Standard
(Original Caption) The original American standard, a rattlesnake with the words "don't tread on me", supplies the motif for this contemporary British caricature.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Showing Roosevelt On Skis

Cartoon Showing Roosevelt On Skis
(Original Caption) Roosevelt, Theodore: Cartoon showing Roosevelt on skiis carrying "the big stick," Taft on elephant. "Do you think you could fly, Bill?" Political cartoon. After W.A. Rogers, 1907

Background imageCartoon Collection: Crowds Await Movie Premiere

Crowds Await Movie Premiere
(Original Caption) The rains came and so did the crowds, lined up completely around the block to see the Radio City Music Hall's Great Christmas show "A Boy Named Charlie Brown." Record crowds were

Background imageCartoon Collection: Whiskey Ring Corruption

Whiskey Ring Corruption
(Original Caption) Whiskey Ring Corruption. U.S. Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, dives into the Barrel of corruption. (He was impeached for malfeasancein office). Nast cartoon, 1876.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Caricature Of Jefferson; Political Carto

Caricature Of Jefferson; Political Carto
(Original Caption) Thomas Jefferson: Caricature of Jefferson lampooning his enthusiasm for the mob rule of the French Revolutionists.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Political Cartoon;Paris Monster;Revoluti

Political Cartoon;Paris Monster;Revoluti
(Original Caption) Cinque-tetes, or the Paris Monster. Political cartoon on the XYZ Affair showing staunch Americans resisting the threats and demands for money from Revolutionary France.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Political Cartoon Of President Lincoln

Political Cartoon Of President Lincoln
(Original Caption) "Long Abe a Little Longer." Cartoon by Frank Billew, 1864. After President Lincoln's re-election. BPA2# 2858

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Of Bostonians In Distress

Cartoon Of Bostonians In Distress
(Original Caption) The Bostonians in distress. Political cartoon.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon On Painless Extraction;Dentistry

Cartoon On Painless Extraction;Dentistry
(Original Caption) Dentistry: a cartoon on painless extraction. Postal card ca. 1905.BPA2# 1030

Background imageCartoon Collection: Henry Clay Sewing Andrew Jackson'S Mouth

Henry Clay Sewing Andrew Jackson'S Mouth
(Original Caption) Henry Clay sewing up Andrew Jackson's mouth, reference to harassment to which Clay subjected the President, whom he considered a dictator. Undated cartoon. BPA2# 3839

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Warning Against Chinese Labor

Cartoon Warning Against Chinese Labor
(Original Caption) Cartoon warning cigar makers not to use Chinese labor. Trade unions, fearful of competing with cheap Chinese labor

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Of Nine States Ratified

Cartoon Of Nine States Ratified
(Original Caption) Political Cartoon: The nine states that ratified the Constitution. The pillars, Virginia and New York have not as yet been erected, 1788. BPA2# 5142

Background imageCartoon Collection: Grover Cleveland Playing Poker

Grover Cleveland Playing Poker
Cartoon shows Grover Cleveland, noted for his honesty in Poker game.

Background imageCartoon Collection: The Plum-Pudding in Danger Cartoon by James Gillray

The Plum-Pudding in Danger Cartoon by James Gillray
A political cartoon of Prime Minister William Pitt and Napoleon Bonaparte dividing up the globe, almost certainly after the Peace of Amiens in 1802

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Branding Andrew Jackson As King

Cartoon Branding Andrew Jackson As King
(Original Caption) Cartoon branding Andrew Jackson as a dictator. "King Andrew I."

Background imageCartoon Collection: Political Cartoon Of Open Door In China

Political Cartoon Of Open Door In China
(Original Caption) Political cartoon on open door policy in China.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Political Cartoon Of Stevenson-Cleveland

Political Cartoon Of Stevenson-Cleveland
(Original Caption) Political cartoon about the Grover Cleveland-Adlai Stevenson Presidency campaign. "Saint and Sinner--The Great Face Both Ways Ticket," shows Cleveland as a saint

Background imageCartoon Collection: The Union Must be Preserved at All Hazards Political Cartoon

The Union Must be Preserved at All Hazards Political Cartoon
Cartoon showing General George McClellan attempting to mediate between President Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Political Cartoon About Naval Supremacy

Political Cartoon About Naval Supremacy
(Original Caption) Picture shows a political cartoon about the Anglo-German race for naval Supremacy. The question of precedence before the door of the Temple of Disarmament from Kalem

Background imageCartoon Collection: Turkeys Revolt Against Thanksgiving

Turkeys Revolt Against Thanksgiving
(Original Caption) The Turkeys' revolt against Thanksgiving: "We are bitterly opposed to the enforcement of President Grant's Thanksgiving Proclamation

Background imageCartoon Collection: Portrait of Burt Ward in Batman

Portrait of Burt Ward in Batman
(Original Caption) Burt Ward as Robin on television series Batman.

Background imageCartoon Collection: League Of Nations Political Cartoon

League Of Nations Political Cartoon
(Original Caption) Picture shows a US political cartoon with the caption, "OUR SENATORIAL HAMLET: To Radify ot not to Radify; that is the Question." It depicts a rounded man dressed in a

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon -- Japan'S Cultural Dependency

Cartoon -- Japan'S Cultural Dependency
(Original Caption) Political cartoon entitled "OUR VISITORS," depicting a Japanese man begging "light" from an American, who is shown seated at a table reading Harpers Weekly beside a lamp labeled

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon of Dancer Lola Montez Coming To US

Cartoon of Dancer Lola Montez Coming To US
(Original Caption) Lola Montez on her way to America. Lithographic cartoon.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Litho. Of Wagner'S Wild Music Of Future

Litho. Of Wagner'S Wild Music Of Future
(Original Caption) Cartoon: "Wagner's Music of the Future." Undated lithograph.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Mouthpiece Cartoon; Woodcut

Mouthpiece Cartoon; Woodcut
(Original Caption) Orators: mouthpiece. Undated woodcut. BPA2# 3510

Background imageCartoon Collection: Whites With Gun To Black'S Head

Whites With Gun To Black'S Head
1876: Political Cartoon showing the violent treatment of black voters in the South: Whites With Gun To his Head. 1876. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Background imageCartoon Collection: King George Iii Booting William Pitt

King George Iii Booting William Pitt
(Original Caption) Caricature of King George III ridding himself of William Pitt. Engraving, circa 1801.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Man And Woman Paying Billiards

Man And Woman Paying Billiards
(Original Caption) Cartoon showing woman playing billiards against a man. "PERFECTLY DREADFUL. FLORENCE.-"Oh! Kiss. Do Kiss

Background imageCartoon Collection: A Cure For A Cold English Cartoon

A Cure For A Cold English Cartoon
(Original Caption) A cure for a cold. English cartoon, 1883. Lithograph. BPA2# 3024

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Laundry Reopening Of Strife N&S

Cartoon Laundry Reopening Of Strife N&S
(Original Caption) The Reconstruction Period - Cartoon. A depiction of the reopening of old strife between the North and the South prodded by the editorials of whitelaw Reid in the New York Tribune

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon On Mormonism: Sword And Mormon

Cartoon On Mormonism: Sword And Mormon
(Original Caption) Cartoon on Mormonism. "The Sword of Damocles and Mormonism." Woodcut by Opper, 1879.

Background imageCartoon Collection: The Danites: Men Surrounding Woman

The Danites: Men Surrounding Woman
(Original Caption) Cartoon - Group of men surrounding woman. Caption, "The Danites" "Married Mum?""No Sir!" Undated Lithograph.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Caricature Of Freud Analyzing Himself

Caricature Of Freud Analyzing Himself
(Original Caption) Ca. 1910-Caricature of Sigmund Freud analyzing a figure of himself lying on a couh spouting Freudian imagery. Drawing by Charles B. Slackman.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Cartoon Of Dover Calais Telegraph Line

Cartoon Of Dover Calais Telegraph Line
(Original Caption) Political cartoon: "The new Siamese twins" - Depicts the Dover-Calais telegraph line crossing the English Channel. Undated engraving.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Blind Man Watches Baseball Game

Blind Man Watches Baseball Game
(Original Caption) A Baseball Miricle: Cartoon showing man wearing "I am blind" signwatching baseball game through hole in the fence. The long arm of the lawis just about to catch up with him

Background imageCartoon Collection: Grover Cleveland Inspects White House Staff

Grover Cleveland Inspects White House Staff
(Original Caption) Political cartoon: "Reveille In The White House." President Cleveland holds inspection for the White House staff. 1885 color lithograph by F. Opper.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Comic Of Uncle Sam Holding Cook & Peary

Comic Of Uncle Sam Holding Cook & Peary
(Original Caption) Political cartoon of Uncle Sam welcoming the two explorers who claim priority in discovering the North Pole, Dr. Frederick Cook and Admiral Robert E. Peary. Cartoon, 1910.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Bourbons And Anti-Bourbons Fight Over Black Vote

Bourbons And Anti-Bourbons Fight Over Black Vote
(Original Caption) "The Next Political Conditing - South:" Political cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting Bourbons and anti-Bourbons fighting over the black vote. Undated woodcut.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Uncle Sam'S Christmas Stocking; Illus

Uncle Sam'S Christmas Stocking; Illus
(Original Caption) Uncle Sam's Christmas stocking - 1852. Screened image of lithograph cartoon by W. A. Rogers, 1907.

Background imageCartoon Collection: Polit Cartoon Of Teddy Roosevelt

Polit Cartoon Of Teddy Roosevelt
(Original Caption) Caricature of Teddy Roosevelt with a big smile and a big club sitting on top of the Senate and the House: "It Will End This Side Up." Engraving.



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