Harold Morton Talburt lithographs circa 1940-1950

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Harold Morton Talburt lithographs circa 1940-1950

Harold Morton Talburt lithographs of his political cartoons cover World War II and the New Deal. Caricatures include President Rooselvelt, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Japanese soldiers. Twenty-four lithographs of political cartoons regarding World War II and the New Deal by cartoonist Harold Morton Talburt.

24.0 Item(s) 24 Lithographs

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...

Talburt, Harold M., 1895-1966.

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Pulitzer Prize winner and political cartoonist Harold Morton Talburt was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1895. Talburt's first job as a cartoonist was for the Scripps-Howard news bureau in Washington in 1921. Later he worked for the Washington Daily News. He was awarded the Pulitzer in 1933 for his editorial cartoon, "The Light of Asia," and was said to have enjoyed drawing Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt the most. Talburt died in Maryland in 1966. From the description of Ha...