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A three-panel cartoon highlights legislator attendance before and after bills go into effect. The cartoonist suggests the introduction of a timeclock and reduction in pay as a solution for high absentee rates among Congressmen.Captions: "Under one:…

Six vignettes feature people asking Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger if there is truth to rumors of his pending resignation. In the final vignette he responds "Not a word of truth in it."On March 11, 1911, the Secretary of the Interior…

The Republican elephant walks across the 1928 Republican Convention floor on a plank labeled "Platform plank opposing debt cancellation" while holding a newspaper declaring "$535,000,000 in Gold has left the U.S. for foreign shores in the last eight…

The crowd at the 1908 Democratic Convention gathers at the top of the viewing stands to watch the 300th anniversary celebrations in Quebec City taking place outside and ignoring the convention activities. Uncle Sam serves as ring leader of the…

Professor Windjammer speaks before an audience on maintaining a small army. In the lower panel, men representing China and Korea stand up and leave the speech pointing out the problems they encountered as a result of maintaining a small army when…

Insurgents in states surrounding Kansas write letters to Representative Joseph Cannon asking him to denounce them while Cannon-approved men lie on the ground throughout the state. Two insurgents in Kansas claim "Alas! Poor Cannon! I knew him well" in…

The four panel cartoon shows Sherlock Holmes investigating the money trail in the Lorimer Scandal and looking for additional legislators who accepted bribes for votes.

A G. O. P. elephant looks out a window at an angry man straddling Niagara Falls representing opposition from steel plants and power plants to diverting water from the Great Lakes as part of the Mississippi Valley Waterway Project.The Mississippi…

In the top panel several bulldogs with tags reading "food control," "coal control," "profits control," "price control," "drink control," and "ships and R.Y. control" guard the public funds building while profiteers wonder if the dogs will stay after…

In the top panel a man representing the Monroe doctrine stands at a train station while the station master, labeled "Constructive Criticism" flags fown the approaching League of Nations Covenant train. The second panel shows two American soldiers on…

Large crowds race into Chicago's City Series between the Cubs and the White Sox where the stadium marquee reads "ciTy seRies." A political representative chases one crowd member labeled "Silent Voter" and bearing a striking resemblance to Theodore…

Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon's commentary of the day highlights Chicago Black Sox players celebrating over the body of a giant baseball player, boots walking through the Riga region, and several eyes watching a man clutching money bags in…

Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon provides commentary on news items of the day including daylight savings time, political unrest over the Danish monarchy, and Chicago city worker's demands for pay raises. Captions: "Under one: The Daylight…

This seven-panel cartoon shows a cheaper gas pump followed by a drawing of a city filled with automobiles. The third panel shows a man asleep under a sign labeled "Electrify the Terminals. Smoke Costs Chicago Millions Annually." The following panel…

Two men discuss plans for the City Beautiful movement in six vignettes. The top three vignettes show the excitement of both men. The fifth vignette displays a money bag labeled "self interest" whispering "Look out! It will cost you money" into one…

A group of men stand before a large billboard filled with President Woodrow Wilson's proposals for big business and government regulation. The billboard reads: "The Great Insurance Companies Should be Curbed. The Inter-State Commerce Commission…

Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon criticizes the Chicago Police Department's ability to fight crime in the city. In the top panel a detective holds two guns and stops three crooks. In the lower panel, two pairs of legs jump out a window with a…

The top panel shows men watching Lady Justice attempt to walk while her legs are bound by wrapping labeled "Governor's veto of funds." The second panel shows a train approaching a man tied to the railroad tracks. The final panel features a couple…

James Harahan and Edward Harriman kick Suyvesant Fish out a window only to have him return in the second panel. They throw him out an adjacent window in the third panel but he returns through a transem window in the fourth panel.Stuyvesant Fish,…

A man sits before an audience talking about his dangerous experiences and injuries in the top three panels. In the fourth panel, the group ushers him to the Cook County Home for Incurable Microbes where he refuses to enter. The Cool County Home for…

A man stands in the lower left corner gesturing to a hot air balloon labeled "Hearst Balloon" carrying political candidates Hopkins and Burke in the top panel. The center panel shows the balloon falling quickly with the two men clutching at its…

Crowds of people lean out of every window in a building straining to see an oncoming parade of American flags and a marching band.

A man appears in two panels with his family, the first at rest and the second washing clothes. The bottom two panels depict him traveling the city on a street car and walking.

Two men walk through a cemetery adding names from the headstones to the Philadelphia voting list while an angry mob protests outside the cemetery wall.Republican machine politics drove the city of Philadelphia during the early twentieth century under…

In the top two panels, a man representing the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, also known as the Bonus Bill, sits in the waiting room of "Dr. Congress" for several years. In the bottom panel, a man rushes in carrying papers labeled "Tariff Bill"…