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This cartoon concerns the 1948 presidential election. President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic Presidential nominee in the election of 1948, was widely expected to lose by a large margin to Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey. This cartoon, printed…

This cartoon depicts the two big winners on Election Day, 1917, in New York. Voters adopted a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution, a measure backed by Tammany Hall, New York City's Democratic political machine. On the same day,…

Berryman produced this cartoon for the first Tuesday in November, Election Day. All the types of citizens, farmers, workers, businessmen, and city dwellers, were marching off to the voting booth to exercise their right as citizens. But the District…

This cartoon depicts a large pool of primary candidates early in the 1948 campaign before the field narrowed. Printed in the Washington Evening Star on the day of the critical Nebraska primary, it shows the Republican Party elephant as a watchful…

On June 27, 1932 the Democratic National Convention convened in Chicago, Illinois, but the battle for delegates had been raging all through the spring. While President Hoover was encouraging Americans not to hoard their savings, Jouett Shouse was…

This illustration entitled, "Catching the Speaker's Eye In The Future News Note: Colorado Suffragettes Are Planning a Campaign to Elect a Woman to Congress Next Year", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on…

This cartoon depicts Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, son of former President William Howard Taft, examining an electoral map of the United States, planning his "summer schedule" with hopes of becoming the next President. Summer is a critical time for…