{"id":288,"date":"2011-11-07T18:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=288"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:18:32","slug":"political-cartoons-exhibit-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2011\/11\/07\/political-cartoons-exhibit-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Cartoons Exhibit Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>How many of the issues of the 2012 presidential elections are new to our society?&nbsp; What did politicians and the media say about unemployment and social security in the 1930s, the 1970s, or the 1990s? Were the elections of the last century less divisive in their language than those of today? What guidance can the past give for the future? <\/em>Here is a sampler of our exhibit \u201cA Century of Un\/Civil Discourse in Political Cartoons,\u201d on view at the Iowa City Sheraton Hotel during the symposium on political discourse November 9-10, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the symposium website at <a href=\"http:\/\/ppc.uiowa.edu\/pages.php?id=278\">http:\/\/ppc.uiowa.edu\/pages.php?id=278<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Browse our&nbsp;&nbsp;online digital <em>Des Moines Register <\/em>political cartoons collection at <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/dmrc\/\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/dmrc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The More Things Change\u2026: Immigration, 1905<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/TurnAbout.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cTurn about is fair play.\u201d By J. N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling, Sioux City Journal, June 28, 1905.\" width=\"398\" height=\"543\"><\/p>\n<p>Rendered in the cartooning style of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, Darling\u2019s observation that the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the U.S. may ruin trade relations with that country rings true today, when China is seen by Americans as a conniving owner of U.S. debt, but also as a power whose intervention could help the world economy out of the recession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women and the Political Conversation, 1920<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/BeCareful.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cBe careful how you distribute your weight, Madam. You might upset it, you know.\u201d By J. N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling, Des Moines Register, October 26, 1920.\" width=\"398\" height=\"510\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Darling\u2019s cartoon masterfully captures the idea held during the culmination of the suffrage movement that women would vote as one bloc in electoral politics, and may fundamentally alter the balance between the major parties. Did this fear come true?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The More Things Change\u2026: Recession, 1933<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/IfWereGoing.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cIf we're going to get anywhere somebody's got to pull that oar.\u201d By J. N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling, Des Moines Register, August 27, 1933 \" width=\"399\" height=\"500\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historians now explain that the Great Depression was exacerbated by a dramatic drop in people\u2019s willingness to buy goods. Through his cartoon, Darling argued that the road to recovery lay in combining the strikes of the oar of the government\u2019s employment policies with an encouragement of John Q. Public to start buying again with his consumer paddle. This dynamic may be familiar from our own crisis of consumer confidence as a response to the collapse of the credit system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The More Things Change\u2026: Raising the Debt Ceiling, 1941<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/brown1941.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThe new safety mark for waders.\u201d By T. Brown, Wall Street Journal, February 24, 1941.\" width=\"400\" height=\"551\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s cartoon cautioning Congress against raising the debt ceiling lest the whole nation submerge anticipated FDR\u2019s fight with Capitol Hill two years later, in which the president had give up his plan of capping personal incomes with a tax in return for Congress raising the debt limit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The More Things Change&#8230; Government that Governs, 1956<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/HopeHeLeaves.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cHope he leaves that bull outside.\u201d By Frank Miller, Des Moines Register, January 5, 1956.\" width=\"375\" height=\"513\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>The More Things Change&#8230; Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, 1975&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/ButOne.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cBut one is still looking down.\u201d By Frank Miller, Des Moines Register, July 18, 1975. \" width=\"300\" height=\"430\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Women and the Political Conversation, 1972<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/WearinPants.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Wearin' pants and boots and smokin' pipes and runnin' for President!&quot; By Frank Miller, Des Moines Register, 1972\" width=\"480\" height=\"670\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Frank Miller\u2019s cartoon at the same time marked the historic occasion of Shirley Chisholm\u2019s 1972 \u201cUnbought and Unbossed\u201d campaign, a black woman making a bid for the U.S. presidency, and poked fun at those in the Democratic Party and across the U.S. who social progress had passed by. Miller dedicated this copy to Louise Noun, co-founder of the Iowa Women\u2019s Archive, who he considered worthy of voting for if she ever ran for office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Un\/Civil Discourse in U.S. Political Campaigns, 1984<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/Pssst.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cPssst ... remember I'm behind you 1000%.\u201d By Brian Duffy, Des Moines Register, August 23, 1984.\" width=\"398\" height=\"470\"><\/p>\n<p>In the person of Democratic VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 presidential elections saw the first woman on a major party\u2019s presidential ticket. By late August, Brian Duffy felt that her running mate Walter Mondale had abandoned Ferraro to the attacks of Republican VP candidate George Bush and the feeding frenzy of the media over her past campaign finances and tax filings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Un\/Civil Discourse in U.S. Political Campaigns, 1996<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/01\/ThereYouGo.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThere you go again ... scaring the elderly!\u201d By Brian Duffy, Des Moines Register, October 20, 1996.\" width=\"478\" height=\"399\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; How many of the issues of the 2012 presidential elections are new to our society?&nbsp; What did politicians and the media say about unemployment and social security in the 1930s, the 1970s, or the 1990s? 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