Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Cartoon Collection, 1928-2002

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Cartoon Collection, 1928-2002

1928-2002

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The <i>Daily Worker</i> and <i>Daily World</i> Cartoon Collection contains a wide range of cartoons and sketches published and submitted for publication to the official organ of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), the <i>Daily Worker</i> (and its various later forms). The <i>Daily Worker's</i> editorial positions reflected the policies of the CPUSA. The paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequencies between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the <i>People's World</i>. A number of different artists are represented in the collection, including: Fred Ellis, Eric (James Erickson), Hugo Gellert, Norman Goldberg, Ollie Harrington, Hal Kinkaid, Robert Minor, and Joseph Seymour, among numerous others. A large portion of the cartoons in the collection are original, signed drawings, but also present are newsprint copies and pre-press prints. The material in the collection ranges in date from the late 1920s up through the 2002, though is predominantly from the 1940s-1980s. The topics covered by the cartoons are as diverse as was the coverage of the <i>Daily Worker</i>. Focusing heavily on capitalism, civil rights, civil liberties, labor, and the Vietnam War, as well as caricatures of Presidents and other influential politicians, the cartoons provide a narrative for the major events of the 20th century, particularly those that effected the left-wing community in the US.

18.75 Linear Feet in 6 records cartons, 1 manuscript box, and 9 oversize flat boxes.

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Ellis, Fred, 1885-1965

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Minor, Robert, 1884-1952

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Erickson, James

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Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985.

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