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political cartoon: Theodore Roosevelt

political cartoon: William Pitt, the Younger

political cartoon: siege of Paris

Antisemitic caricature

anti-tariff cartoon

"Declaration of Independence"

immigration debate

U.S.–German conflict over naval rights in Samoa

Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) and Meat Inspection Act (1906)

An American colonist in a blue coat reads a posted notice of a tax on tea with a concerned expression, while a British soldier with a rifle and bayonet stands guard nearby.

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Honoré Daumier

Honoré Daumier

French artist

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Ralph Steadman

British artist and cartoonist

Garry Trudeau

Garry Trudeau

American satirist

Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer

American cartoonist and writer

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast

American political caricaturist

Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).

Walter Crane

British illustrator and painter

The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of the United States, cartoon by John T. McCutcheon

John T. McCutcheon

American cartoonist

Mauldin, Bill

Bill Mauldin

American cartoonist

political cartoon of Napoleon Bonaparte and King George III

James Gillray

English caricaturist

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Sir David Low

British caricaturist

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George Cruikshank

British artist

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Bernhard Gillam

American cartoonist

Political cartoon

Sir John Tenniel

English artist

Jay Norwood Darling (left) looking at a sheet of migratory bird hunting and conservation stamps.

Jay Norwood Darling

American political cartoonist

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Rollin Kirby

American cartoonist

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Harry Furniss

Anglo-Irish caricaturist

Robinson, Boardman

Boardman Robinson

American caricaturist and painter

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Herblock

American cartoonist

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Norman Lindsay

Australian artist and author