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"I Thought I Smelled!"

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Description: A black drawing on white board of a cartoon skunk opening to top of a trash can. Text below reads: "I thought I smelled!" The garbage can is marked: "Polit...
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"Politics, A Stud Farm for Jackasses"

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Description: Black on white cartoon head of a laughing bull. In large red and black letters the text reads: "Politics is a stud farm for jackasses."
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"34%"

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Description: Large text with red and black letters reads: "34% of your earned dollar goes for taxes. You work 2hrs. & 45 min. daily for the gov't. Taxes is (sic)...
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Ducks Unlimited Poster

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Description: Poster for Ducks Unlimited, depicting a duck bowing its head with its bill under a wing. There is a band on the duck's leg. Below, text reads: "Don't Duck ...
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Reagan Poster

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Description: A cartoon line drawing in black of Ronald Reagan in profile, as a caricature, with the text, in red that reads: "I don't want Carter's job America needs a ...
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Panama Canal Poster

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Description: Text reads: "A politician buys* Somebody a shovel and then he wants all the credit for digging the Panama Canal. *With your taxes." Three shovels are drawn...
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"One Term Once"

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Description: Text in large red and black letters reads: "One term once" 'Entrenched politicians' (underlined) is not good democracy. With one term, more people become i...
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"Be thankfull (sic.) you are not a turkey!"

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Description: A cartoon line drawing in black of a turkey with a hatchet coming down on it neck, with "Ohio Special" written on its breast. Includes the phrase, in red l...
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"Lower your standard of living — Pay your taxes!"

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Description: Cartoon figures drawn in color, with Uncle Sam holding a vacuum cleaner hose for sucking dollar bills away from a small figure, wearing only a barrel. Text...
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"Political Tricks, No Treats, Higher Taxes"

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Description: Three cartoon ghosts, labeled "Inflation," "Unemployment," and "High Taxes" floating around an orange pumpkin, with a face cut as a caricature of President...
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"We Are All Irish 17"

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Description: Four cartoon faces, three of them laughing leprechauns, one a stylish woman, with shamrocks scattered all about. Black line with red-brown for hair and bea...
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"I'll Be a Son of a Witch!"

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Description: A color cartoon pumpkin with beard, hair and glasses, made to look like Earl Erhart, (bartender at Ohio House tavern). Pumpkin is popping its lid. Oct.31 w...
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"4 More Years of What?"

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Description: Black on white caricature of President Jimmy Carter with wide grin, and the word "WHAT" in red letters. Question marks surround his head. The text reads: "...
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"Concerts on the Square"

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Description: Square poster for "Concerts on the Square" that shows a conductor's hand holding a baton with musical notes floating around the frame and over a photograph...
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""Ohio Tavern Women's Bowling Team League Champs"

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Description: Text reads, "Ohio Tavern Women's Bowling Team League Champs, '79-'80" lettered in red, except for "Women's" which is in black. Curlicue designs fill top tw...
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"One Term" Political Poster

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Description: Drawing of a black outlined bird, with colored feathers, perching on a branch with a wide open mouth. Text reads, "Politics, Nothing to Crow About!" and be...
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"Our National Debt . . . "

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Description: From the top, bold red letters read: "Our National Debt $3,122,700,000,000 (3 Trillion Bucks)," "Did you spend your share?" On the right is a cartoon profi...
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"It's Too Bad That the Taxpayer . . ."

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Description: Cartoon of an overweight man wearing a suit and tie. Text reads: "It's too bad that the taxpayer can't vote for a job and raise his own salary! As his poli...
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Piggy Politician

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Description: Black on white cartoon head of a pig wearing hat, spectacles, moustache, and coat and tie. Written on the side in large red an dblack letters the text read...
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"You're All Heart"

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Description: Cartoon of a full-length line drawing of a man and a woman standing at a bar. The man is wearing a suit and tie, and the woman, seen from the rear, has a l...

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