Citation information for the 20 cartoons that can be used for Final Paper Assignment. Students are permitted to find their own but they are encouraged to use the ones below.
Cartoon citations are listed in order they are listed on the Cartoon info sheet. Remember, when citing the cartoon inside your paper to use ” ” with the title of the cartoon and then listing the LAST NAME of the author in ( ) at the end of the sentence where it is referenced. Also, if the title of the cartoon is very long, in the in text citation, students can simply put a the first few words of the name of the cartoon. (“Ye May Session…”)
[Ex: The issue of humble brags can be seen in the cartoon “Just Joking Around”, published in 2017 (Kale).]
- Nast, Thomas. “The American River Ganges”, Harper’s Weekly, Sept. 30, 1871. Print.
- “Ye May Session of Ye Women’s Rights Convention. Ye Orator of Ye Day Denouncing Ye Lords of Creation” Harper’s Weekly, June 11, 1859. Engraving. *Note the in-paper citation for this one can be shortened to (“Ye May Session…”)
- “Three Days of May 1844” Commentary on the Nativists Casualties. Harper’s Weekly, May 1844. Print.
- Barber, John. “The Drunkards Progress: or the direct road to poverty, wrtechedness & ruin”. Engraving; New Haven, CT. 1826.
- “Age of Iron, Man as he expects to be”. Lithograph. Currier & Ives, 1869. Museum of the City of New York.
- “Jim Crow Jubilee” Bufford’s Lith., 1847. Lithograph: Boston Public Library.
- “The Great Fear of the Period That Uncle Sam may be Swallowed by Foreigners. The Problem Solved.” Lithograph, 1860.
- “Young America Rising at the Ballot Box and Strangling the Serpents of Disunion and Secession”, Commentary on Secession. Engraving from an American newspaper, 1860.
- Baker, Joseph. “The ‘Rail Splitter’ at Work Repairing the Union”. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, cartoons and caricatures collection: Box 4, Folder 14. Original print, 1865.
- Woolf, Michael Angelo. “Our National Bird as it Appeared when Handed to James Buchanan…The Identical Bird as it Appeared 1861.” Boston Public Library: Lithograph, 1861.
- Nast, Thomas. “In memorium–our service as it was”. Harper’s Weekly, April 28, 1877, pg. 325.
- “Andrew Jackson as the Great Father.” Lithograph, 1835.
- “The Rats Leaving a Falling House.” Cartoon Prints, Library of Congress, 1831.
- Clay, Edward W. “Grand celebration ob de bobalition ob African slabery.” Life in Philadelphia. 1833, Print.
- “Quashee’s Dream of Emancipation” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.1863, Print.
- “Massacre of the Whites by the Indians and Blacks in Florida”, 1836. Library of Congress: engraving, illustration.
- “The Symbolical Head, Illustrating all the Phrenology”, 1842. Library of Congress: Print.
- “The Undecided Politcal Prize Fight”, 1860. Cincinnati: lithograph. Published in American Political prints. 1776-1866, Bernard F. Reilly. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991.
- Tenniel, John. “Mr. G’Orilla”, 1845-1852. The Punch: Print.
- “Butler Hanged-The Negro Freed-On Paper-1863,” Frank Leslie’s Budget of Fun, Feb. 1, 1863. Print.