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Title:

[Theodore Ernest Langguth original editorial cartoons]

Creator/Contributor:

Langguth, Theodore E., creator, artist.

Creator/Contributor:

San Francisco Chronicle (Firm)

Abstract:

Original editorial cartoon drawings for the San Francisco Chronicle, commenting on various current events and topics from the early 1920s, including League of Nations, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, U.S. Presidential nominee James Middleton Cox and women's suffrage. Other topics include U.S. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge, California's 70th anniversary (1850-1920), voters' blindness to numerous issues, anti-communism, trans-national air mail delivery, Paris royalists, Florence Nightingale and military use of carrier pigeons.

Date:

1920 (issued)

Subject:

Wilson, Woodrow -- 1856-1924 -- Pictorial works
Cox, James M. (James Middleton) -- 1870-1957 -- Pictorial works
League of Nations.
Women -- Suffrage -- Pictorial works

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Drawings signed by artist: Langguth.
A few drawings include dates.
Theodore Ernest Langguth original editorial cartoons, BANC PIC 2018.047, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Theodore E. Langguth was born in Germany in 1861; emigrated to the United States in 1882; eventually became the head of San Francisco Chronicle's art department; died 1951.

Type:

graphic
Cartoons (commentary).
Drawings.

Physical Description:

drawing
18 drawings in 2 folders : pen and ink on illustration board ; sheets 47 x 42 cm or smaller

Language:

English

Origin:

California