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  • Mister, you're wanted if you can take it
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    Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons; Propaganda; Publicity; Public opinion; Slogans; Press; Insignia; Bayonets
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    Political cartoon featureing a uniformed Tennessee State Guard member crouched with his bayonet at the ready. The backdrop is the emblem for the State Guard. A list appears at the top right of the types of drills and skills that are involved. The...
  • Tennessee State Guard
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  • Men and boys
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    Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons; Propaganda; Publicity; Public opinion; Slogans; Press
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    This patriotic newspaper cartoon/promotion for the Guard appearing in the Williamson County News features in the upper right-hand corner an image of a shadowy,helmeted soldier with his weapon raised. The accompanying text emphasizes the wide range...
  • Tennessee State Guard
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  • Our hats off to you
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    Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons; Propaganda; Publicity; Public opinion; Slogans; Press
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    Caricatures of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Adolph Hitler of Germany, and Benito Mussolini of Italy are employed in this Tennessee State Guard promotion to remind Murfreesboro Daily News Journal readers that American apathy and "laying down on the...
  • Tennessee State Guard
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  • Turned Down? Over Age? Draft Exempt? Here Is How YOU Can Help
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    Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons; Propaganda; Publicity; Public opinion; Slogans; Press
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    A man sitting pondering perhaps his future and a directive as to how he might join the Second Infantry Brigade, Tennessee State Guard. A drawing of a soldier with his compatriots charging was also positioned on the page.
  • Tennessee State Guard
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  • Political cartoon, "The Tailor and Rail-Splitter Mending the Union"
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    Presidents; Vice presidents; Political cartoons; caricatures
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    Political cartoon depicting Andrew Johnson seated on a world globe, stitching together a map of the United States, with Abraham Lincoln using a "rail-splitter" to reposition it.
  • Andrew Johnson Collection
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  • "The Smelling Committee," illustration by John Cameron
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    Political cartoons; Presidents
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    llustration depicting the failed impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, in which Radical Republicans are represented by a dead horse. Several individuals involved in the proceedings hold their noses against the "smell," including...
  • Andrew Johnson Collection
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  • "We are Gonna Put on a Play" cartoon from the Wilderness Messenger
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    Soldiers; Women; Caricatures
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    Cartoon from the Camp Wiley Post Wilderness Messenger, Volume 1, Number 3, featuring a GI explaining to a woman that he will be in a camp play called "Tom Mix and His Horse," to which she responds, "That's Great! Who's going to be Tom Mix?"
  • Civilian Conservation Corps
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  • Of course he wants to vote the Democratic ticket!
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    Poltical cartoons
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    Political cartoon of white men holding a pistol to a black man's head at a polling station in Tennessee.
  • Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
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  • Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction
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    Presidents; Racism; Political cartoons
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    Cartoon depicting Andrew Johnson as the deceitful Iago who betrayed Othello, portrayed here as an African American Civil War veteran. Includes scenes of a slave auction, whites attacking African Americans in Memphis and New Orleans, and...
  • Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
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  • Scopes Trial "Monkey Business" Cartoon
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    Monkeys; Organ grinders; Cartoons (Commentary); Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Cartoon showing an organ grinder as Dayton, Tennessee, the organ as the Scopes Trial, and the monkey collecting all of the publicity and money.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial

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