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"Festival of the Snakes"

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Description: Color caricature of a man, with one eye shut, and the other eye bloodshot, wearing a black hat and black overcoat, and signed: "Sid Boyum." In the top left...
Drawing

"The Candidate"

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Description: Drawing of a bull with a ring through its nose. The bull is excreting feces. Below the text reads: "The Candidate."
Poster

"Maybe You'd Like to Debate With Brother Billy"

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Description: Caricature of President Jimmy Carter with the text: "Maybe You'd Like to Debate with Brother Billy."
Poster

"Opinions Are Like Aholes . . ."

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Description: Text in large red lettering reads: "Opinions Are Like Aholes, Everybody Has One!" over an amorphous shape of a person's rear end.
Drawing

Portrait of Joann, Owner of the Ohio Tavern

Date: 1978
Description: Round portrait of Joann, owner of the Ohio Tavern. She is holding a beer can which reads: "OHO."
Drawing

"The Die Hards"

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Description: Two men, Sid and his good friend Gene Beckman, fishing from a boat in a cold, stormy weather. One man is rowing with ice-covered oars, and the other man is...
Poster

"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...
Postcard

"Our Rest Rooms Are Clean!"

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Description: Cartoon drawing of a man flushing himself down the toilet. The drawing is in black outline, with red hair and beard, and blue water drops. Lettering in bla...
Drawing

War Mongers and Uncle Sam

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Description: A fat, bald headed man representing "War Mongers" is binding a cloth around the eyes of Uncle Sam, who is holding a U.S. Flag and is attempting to continue...
Poster

"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...
Drawing

Ol' Brick Inn

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Description: Cartoon of a group of policemen waving nightsticks are crowded into a Model T. On the right is a sign pointing to the "Ol' Brick Inn." One of the men has f...
Drawing

Coffee Breakers

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Description: In pencil on white card, a cartoon of a woman, probably a secretary, seen from the back, wearing a dress and high heels, with a typewriter for a head, a pe...
Drawing

Scandal

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Description: Drawing of President Nixon kneeling on the ground and with his hand trying to plug a hole in the wall in an attempt to stop water gushing out of it. Above ...
Drawing

Commercial Art for Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Drawing of a human face on the bottom of a sandal. On its body the caption reads: "Don't buy booze. Don't buy shoes. Buy Cecil's sandals." Printer's instru...
Drawing

Man Drinking Scotch

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Description: Drawing of a man wearing a tailcoat and a hat, drinking a bottle of Scotch with one hand while holding a jug of Bourbon labeled with a capital letter "K" o...
Poster

"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...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer's Wieners Truck

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Description: Delivery truck parked on the street of a residential neighborhood. The writing on the truck's front reads: "Oscar Mayer's/Meats of Good Taste." The writing...
Poster

"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...
Poster

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...
Drawing

"Poor Pickins"

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Description: A small boy is pointing at an overweight man, representing Lee Sherman Dreyfus (June 20, 1926 – January 2, 2008) who was an American politician and member ...

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