Race Hatred on Trial cover
Cover of the Communist propaganda pamphlet Race Hatred on Trial [1931]. Published by Workers Library Publishers, New York. From a specimen in the Tim Davenport collection, digitized by me (Tim Davenport) for W... More
Editorial cartoonists' self-portraits (1919)
in 1919, some 52 editorial cartoonists supplied their self-portraits for a feature in the Literary Digest. Historian Allan Holtz has identified them as: Carey Orr (Chicago Tribune) Clifford Berryman (Washingt... More
The Adventures of Bill Worker - In the Land of Equal Opportunities
In response to the Scottsboro Boys trial, Ryan Walker depicts a member of the Ku Klux Klan taking a black baby from a cradle and charging him with rape; the jury instantly finds the baby guilty, and the judge... More
The Adventures of Bill Worker - Southern Bosses
In 1931, a stereotypical "Southern Boss" orders the murders of Communist labor organizers Charles J. Coder and Lewis Hurst. In the first panel, he is giving orders to Dallas Country district attorney William M... More
The Dead, Wounded, and Starving, All On One Side -- Our Side
Woman and her children, looking at the corpses of soldiers and the heaps of skulls, illustrating how war ruins everything for everyone
Walker cartoon about Russians being scared by Chinese pigtails
A group of Russian soldiers are out on patrol when they think they see several rifle barrels pointing at them from behind a rock. The Russians think that the rifles belong to soldiers of the Japanese Imperial ... More
Walker cartoon about Russians being scared by Chinese pigtails (CROPPE...
A group of Russian soldiers are out on patrol when they think they see several rifle barrels pointing at them from behind a rock. The Russians think that the rifles belong to soldiers of the Japanese Imperial ... More
The Adventures of Bill Worker - Kick 'em in Their Own Pants!
Various figures - war profiteers, bankers, clerics, and generals - urge soldiers to fight for the American flag. When the soldiers request a fair wage, however, they are kicked.
Walker cartoon about Americans being more interested in national polit...
Russia and Japan pause in their fistfight, staring at Uncle Sam as he strolls off to attend a "shindig" -- namely, the 1904 election.
Walker cartoon about legislation as a buzzsaw
Uncle Sam stands between the buzzsaw of legislation and a pile of platform planks, and considers the possibility that the octopus of trusts will be unharmed by them.
Walker cartoon about political executions in Idaho
A man labeled "CAPITALISM, ALIAS MINE OWNERS ASSOCIATION" sits below a gallows labeled "IDAHO"; atop the gallows sit three vultures, labeled "Gooding", "Smith", and "Borah". (I'm not sure who "Smith" is.) Th... More
Walker cartoon about the risks of European nations fighting over Asian...
As Imperial Russia, the British Empire (personified as John Bull), the French Colonial Empire, and the German Empire climb all over the sleeping giant that is the Yellow Peril, an alarmed Uncle Sam reads out a... More
Walker cartoon about the difference between patriotism and profit
Ryan Walker (cartoonist) shows a rich man - "Mr Grab-It-All" - angrily hoisting his bag of "PROFIT" in the air to keep it away from the skeletal remains of a soldier labeled "WAR". "PATRIOTISM FOR THE PEOPLE A... More
Walker cartoon about beef prices and vegetarianism
As Uncle Sam is chased out of a market by a bull whose horns are marked "BEEF TRUST" and "ADVANCED PRICES", he comments that the animal will likely make him become a vegetarian.