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  • Tags: Social Commentary

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Superman destroys slums that are plaguing America during the New Deal era

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Superman shows the anti-war sentiment held by many Americans

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Political cartoon questioning immigration laws which exclude Japanese yet admit "Reds, revolutionists, enemy aliens, and I.W.W.'s"

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Print shows a one panel, three scene cartoon showing, in the first scene, an Irish man with the head of Uncle Sam in his mouth and a Chinese man with the feet of Uncle Sam in his mouth, in the second scene they consume Uncle Sam, and in the third the…

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Illustration shows James Garfield and Winfield S. Hancock nailing a Chinese man between two "Anti-Chinese" boards labeled "Republican Plank" and "Democratic Plank".

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A cartoon showing laborers, among whom are Irishmen, an African American, a Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jew, building a wall against the Chinese. Congressional mortar is used to mount blocks of prejudice, non-reciprocity, law against…

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Illustration shows George F. Hoar, Carl Schurz, David B. Hill, and former Massachusetts Governor George S. Boutwell, anti-expansionists, placing their "Anti-Expansion Speech" at the feet of a huge American soldier holding a rifle and the American…

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This is a strip of eighteen one-panel comics containing Winnie the WAC, as a caricature of women in the Women's Army Corps. These eighteen panels were featured in a 1945 edition of Life Magazine.
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