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"Big Oil"

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Description: A naked man (bartender Earl Ehrhart from Union House) boiling in a cauldron, labeled "Degreaser for fats" over a wood fire. Two people, depicted as African...
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"Help Me Drive Snakes Out Of Ireland"

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Description: A woman with green hair is holding a green stick with the text "Ohio" on it. Drawn in green is a snake at top right, wearing a hat, and clover leaves. On t...
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"JoAnn Stood at the Pearly Gates . . ."

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Description: First panel of three part cartoon panel. Text reads: "JoAnn Stood at the Pearly Gates, Her Face Worn & Old, She Merely Asked the Man of Fate . . . Admissio...
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"If You Are Smarter . . ."

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Description: Composite poster, with a piece of paper with a caricature of President Jimmy Carter with big grin filled with real peanuts, and the words "Direct Washingto...
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"Let's Drive the Snakes Out of Ireland"

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Description: Drawing of a male face with a green fluffy beard and hair, eyeglasses, and a dark cap, with his hand holding a curved green bat labeled "Union House." Alon...
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"Did You Get Scrooged for Christmas?"

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Description: Cartoon drawing of a man's face with a cigar in his mouth. Two pointing hands float on each side of his head, and a sprog of holly is in the upper left-han...
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"I Gotta Put My Self Through the Wringer . . ."

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Description: Full-length caricature of a man in a suit and a hat facing left. Possibly a self-portrait. He is holding a hand-cranked clothes wringer behind his back. Te...
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"We Love You"

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Description: Cartoon drawing of a woman's face inside a heart outline in red. She has red lips, blue eyes, and heart-shaped earrings. Her large, round breasts are partl...
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"Jiggin and Swiggin"

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Description: Poster for the Ohio Tavern. In the center is a caricature of an Irish leprechaun, smoking a pipe and dancing with a glass in his hand. In the upper left mu...
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"We Say: Beware of Shifty Pick Pockets!"

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Description: Red octopus with a black hat on its head, and all its arms marked by the name of kinds of taxes, such as "Utility Tax" and "Food Tax." On the face of the o...
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"A Mathematician Named Hall . . ."

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Description: A color cartoon face of a man to the left with numbers worked into his hair, throat, and neck tie, and a telephone attached to his collar. In lower right-h...
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"The Big Rip Off!"

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Description: A man with his mouth open, and wearing a hat and sunglasses is sitting on a sulky (two-wheeled horse racing vehicle) while holding empty reins out in front...
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Union House Tavern Poster

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Description: Unfinished drawing. A man in a Civil War Union uniform is running with a mug of beer while carrying a rifle and a pack. Text reads: "Since 1858." This refe...
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"We Dry You Out . . ."

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Description: Cartoon image of a man face-down and going through a hand-cranked wringer, with his face looking at a martini glass sitting in front of him. His tie and to...
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A Race with Death and Taxes

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Description: Cartoon of Uncle Sam, on the left, rolling up his sleeves, watching a man and the Grim Reaper running towards him. In the center is a barrier marked: "Stan...
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"S.O.B. Save Our Bartender"

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Description: Poster with a portrait of a man wearing a captain's style hat with the insignia of a bottle, and eyeglasses, with a beard and moustache, with a noose aroun...
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"The Law is Like a Spiderweb . . ."

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Description: Cartoon of a judge standing behind a desk wielding a gavel to hit a blindfolded man on the head, with the words "90 Days." In the upper left-hand corner is...
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"Yes, Junior, There Is a Santy Claus"

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Description: Two creatures, each wearing a red stocking cap, are standing in the foreground. A wagon on the left is holding a bottle popping its cork. In the upper righ...
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"I Owned a Tavern"

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Description: Two panels of a three-panel cartoon, arranged vertically. A wall and ornate fence are in the middle-ground of both panels. A woman in the foreground (JoAnn...

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