Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Jensen, Cecil, 1902-1976 |
| Title: | Cecil Jensen Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1865-1971 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1940-1971 |
| Quantity: | 11 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Over 1200 original editorial cartoons drawn for the Chicago Daily News, correspondence, clippings of editorial cartoons and printed material including an item produced by the Sam Adams Committee of Public Safety |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Cecil Jensen (1902-1976) was an American editorial cartoonist.
Jensen was born in Ogden, Utah on January 17, 1902. After high school, Jensen studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Jensen moved to California and worked his way into editorial cartooning at the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News. In 1928, Jensen returned to Chicago as editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News where he spent the remainder of his career. Sigma Delta Chi recognized Jensen's work with an award in 1953.
Jensen also drew comic strips. During World War II, he caricatured Chicago Tribune publisher Colonel McCormick in Colonel McCosmic. Beginning in 1946 Jensen drew Elmo and Debbie (later transformed by the Register and Tribune Syndicate into Debbie or Little Debbie as it was commonly known).
Cecil Jensen died in May 1976.
The Cecil Jensen Papers are divided into three series.
Cartoons contains approximately 1,237 original editorial cartoons drawn by Jensen for the Chicago Daily News. The cartoons are undated and arranged alphabetically by caption. (Cartoons do have months and days of the week listed, but lack years). The majority were likely drawn in the 1960s with some probably from 1970-1971. Subject matter includes national and international politics as well as local issues related to the Chicago area.
Individual cartoons measure approximately 14 ½" x 16 ½" with some variations of about 1". Jensen worked in ink and crayon on illustration board; traces of pencil are visible. Captions and limited date information appear in pencil.
Correspondence (1961-1967) is comprised of incoming correspondence. Letters include requests and thank you notes for original cartoons as well as reprint permissions and feedback from readers. Included are letters from elected officials including Robert F. Kennedy (2 letters), Donald Rumsfeld and Charles Percy. Worth noting is the folder from Illinois State Senator Hudson R. Sours which contains several nineteenth century documents: a promissary note; 1865 document for property in Eureka, Illinois; and a 1869 mortgage for property in New York City near 3rd Avenue and 56th Street. Also of interest are enclosures related to the right to work law (14B of the Taft-Hartley Act).
Other letters were written by fellow cartoonists including Newton Pratt, Art Wood, Arthur Poinier, Bill Saunders, Eldon Pletcher and Mrs. Carey Orr Cook. Correspondence from Poinier includes the results of a survey conducted by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists of journalism schools and curriculum related to editorial cartooning.
The Printed Material (1938-1967) series includes clippings and miscellaneous material. The bulk of this series is clippings of Jensen's editorial cartoons with information about the date of publication. Also located in the series are clippings of work by other editorial cartoonists, namely John Fischetti, Dan Dowling and Arthur Poinier. Finally, of particular interest is a publication from the Sam Adams Committee of Public Safety. The booklet contains editorial cartoons (including work by Jensen) that have been altered to express white supremacist messages.
Original artwork is arranged in alphabetical order by caption. Correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order by sender's last name. Clippings are arranged by year.
There are no access restrictions on this material
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
The Cartoonist and... Your Right to Work, a booklet by National Right to Work Committee has been transferred to Rare Books.
Special Collections Research Center has collections of over one hundred cartoonists. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Cecil Jensen Papers
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Cecil Jensen, 1964-1965, 1967-1968, 1972, except cartoons: "You're just not built right to be a patriot" and "Termites" gift of Joseph E. Geshwiler, 2008.
Created by: [Summit record]
Date: 2001-01-01
Revision history: 22 Mar 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC);
20 Sep 2010 - revised inventory, bio and scope (SK)
| Cartoons | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | A-B (116 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | C-Far (127 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Fas-He (142 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Hi-It (140 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5 | Iv-Mak (82 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6 | Ma-Not (82 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7 | Not-Pau (127 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 8 | Po-S (136 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 9 | T (116 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 10 | U-Win (113 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | Wit-Y (56 items) | ||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | A-B 1964, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | C-E 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | F-K 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Kennedy, Robert F. 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | L-R 1964-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Rumsfeld, Donald 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sours, Hudson R. 1865, 1869, 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | S-Z 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Unidentified 1965-1966, undated | ||||||||||
| Printed material | |||||||||||
| Clippings - editorial cartoons by Jensen and other cartoonists | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1938-1941, 1943 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1944-1946, 1952-1954 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1954-1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | 1958-1960, 1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | 1962, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sam Adams Committee of Public Safety 1960s - booklet of cartoons altered to reflect white supremacist views | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous 1964-1965, 1967 - clippings, receipts, proofs | ||||||||||
Index to cartoons |
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| The following is a list of predominant people, places and subjects appearing in the editorial cartoons in this collection. The list is not exhaustive. Some subjects may require you to browse with alternative terms. | ||
| B= Box, For example: B1= Box 1 | ||
| AFL-CIO | B6, B10 | |
| Adenauer, Konrad | B1, B4, B9 | |
| Africa | B9-B10 | |
| Agnew, Spiro T. | B6, B8 | |
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration | B1 | |
| Alabama | B2, B8 | |
| Albania | B3 | |
| Algeria | B1, B3, B7, B10 | |
| Ali, Muhammad | B1, B5 | |
| American Indians | B9 | |
| American Medical Association | B2, B11 | |
| Arkansas | B7 | |
| Asia | B1, B9-B11 | |
| Baker, Bobby | B2, B4-B6, B8-B11 | |
| Ben Bella, Ahmed | B2 | |
| Berlin | B1, B4-B6, B9-B11 | |
| Berlin Wall | B6, B8-B10 | |
| Black Power | B1 | |
| Brazil | B3, B8 | |
| Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich | B11 | |
| Britain | B2-B7, B9-B10 | |
| Buddhists | B10 | |
| Burch, Dean | B8 | |
| Byrd, Harry | B7 | |
| California | B3, B7 | |
| Canada | B1, B3, B8 | |
| Carpenter, Scott | B3 | |
| Castro, Fidel | B1-B5, B7-B10 | |
| Central Intelligence Agency | B1-B2, B7, B8, B10 | |
| Chicago | B1-B11 | |
| Chicago Seven | B7 | |
| China | B1-B11 | |
| Cold War | B1, B3-B4, B7-B8, B10 | |
| Congo | B3, B7 | |
| Congress | B1, B3-B11 | |
| Congress of Racial Equality | B8-B10 | |
| Connally, John | B7 | |
| Cuba | B1-B10 | |
| Cyprus | B5-B6 | |
| Daley, Richard J. | B1-B3, B7-B9 | |
| Democratic Party | B1-B11 | |
| Diefenbaker, John | B4, B8 | |
| Diem, Ngo Dinh | B3, B11 | |
| Dirksen, Everett | B2, B9 | |
| Dodd, Thomas J. | B9 | |
| Dominican Republic | B3-B4, B7-B9 | |
| Douglas, William O. | B2-B3, B8 | |
| Duvalier, François | B6 | |
| Egypt | B1, B4, B9, B11 | |
| Eisenhower, Dwight | B2, B3, B4 | |
| En-lai, Chou | B3 | |
| Europe | B1-B5, B7-B8, B11 | |
| Faubus, Orval | B7 | |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation | B6 | |
| Federal Communications Commission | B2 | |
| Federal Reserve | B4 | |
| Field, Marshall | B1 | |
| Florida | B4, B8, B10 | |
| Ford, Gerald R. | B2 | |
| France | B1, B3, B5, B7-B11 | |
| Free Society Association | B7 | |
| Freeman, Orville | B11 | |
| Fulbright, J. William | B1, B6 | |
| Geneva | B4, B8-B9 | |
| Georgia | B5, B6 | |
| Germany | B1-B2, B4, B9, B11 | |
| Giancana, Sam | B8-B9 | |
| Glenn, John | B3, B6 | |
| Glimco, Joseph | B9 | |
| Goldwater, Barry | B1-B10 | |
| Great Depression | B4 | |
| Great Society | B5, B7-B9, B11 | |
| Greece | B3, B6 | |
| Gromyko, Andrei | B6-B7, B9 | |
| Guantanamo | B2, B7 | |
| Guinea | B8 | |
| Haiti | B6, B10 | |
| Ho Chi Minh | B1, B3-B5, B6, B9 | |
| Hoffa, Jimmy | B3, B5-B8, B10 | |
| Honduras | B9 | |
| Hoover, Hebert | B2 | |
| Humphrey, Hubert | B4, B8-B9 | |
| Illinois | B1-B11 | |
| India | B2, B6-B9 | |
| India-Pakistan War | B1-B2, B4, B7, B9 | |
| Indonesia | B2-B4, B6, B9 | |
| Internal Revenue Service | B4, B9 | |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | B7 | |
| Israel | B1, B3-B4, B9 | |
| Italy | B7 | |
| Japan | B2, B10 | |
| John Birch Society | B8 | |
| Johnson, Lady Bird | B4 | |
| Johnson, Lyndon Baines | B1-B11 | |
| Jordan | B4 | |
| Kefauver, Estes | B1-B2, B4, B7-B8 | |
| Kennedy, Caroline | B8, B10 | |
| Kennedy, Jacqueline | B8 | |
| Kennedy, John F. | B1, B3-B11 | |
| Kennedy, Robert F. | B1-B2, B4-B9 | |
| Kennedy, Ted | B8, B10 | |
| Kentucky | B3 | |
| Kerner Jr., Otto | B2, B8-B9, B11 | |
| Khrushchev, Nikita | B1-B11 | |
| King Jr., Martin Luther | B2 | |
| Korea | B2, B7, B8 | |
| Kosygin, Alexey | B3, B9 | |
| Ku Klux Klan | B4, B9-B10 | |
| Ky, Nguyen Cao | B1, B5, B9 | |
| Labor Day | B3 | |
| Laos | B1, B3, B5, B11 | |
| Latin America | B1, B4-B5, B10-B11 | |
| Lindsay, John | B10 | |
| Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot | B3, B8 | |
| Lodge, George C. | B10 | |
| MacMillan, Harold | B2, B7, B9 | |
| Makarios III | B5 | |
| Malaysia | B9 | |
| Malaysia | B2 | |
| Manila Summit Conference | B2-B3, B6 | |
| Mantle, Mickey | B5 | |
| Massachusetts | B7, B10 | |
| McNamara, Robert | B2, B6-B8 | |
| Meany, George | B3 | |
| Medicare | B2-B5, B7-B9, B11 | |
| Mexico | B7 | |
| Michigan | B1-B2, B4, B9, B11 | |
| Middle East | B3-B4, B6-B7, B9 | |
| Mikoyan, Anastas | B4 | |
| Miller, Arthur | B8 | |
| Miller, William E. | B8 | |
| Mississippi | B2-B3, B10 | |
| NATO | B1, B3, B5-B6, B10 | |
| Nasser, Gamal Abdel | B1, B3, B6-B11 | |
| National Collegiate Athletic Association | B10 | |
| Nehru, Jawaharlal | B1, B7 | |
| Netherlands | B6 | |
| New Deal | B9 | |
| New Hampshire | B5-B6 | |
| New York | B1-B2, B4-B5, B7-B8, B10 | |
| New York City | B1-B2, B8 | |
| Nhu, Madame Ngo Dinh | B8-B9, B11 | |
| Nixon, Richard M. | B1-B4, B6-B10 | |
| Nkhrumah, Kwame | B8 | |
| O'Brien, Larry | B6 | |
| Organization of American States | B1, B3, B7, B10 | |
| Pakistan | B2 | |
| Panama | B8 | |
| Pearson, Lester B. | B4 | |
| Pentagon | B6, B9 | |
| Percy, Charles H. | B2-B3, B9 | |
| Philippines | B1 | |
| Powell Jr., Adam Clayton | B1, B3-B5, B7-B10 | |
| Powell, Stanley M. | B9 | |
| Profumo, John | B2, B4 | |
| Puerto Rico | B9 | |
| Republican Party | B1-B10 | |
| Reuther, Walter | B3 | |
| Rockefeller, David | B4 | |
| Rockefeller, Nelson | B1, B4, B6-B7, B10 | |
| Romania | B3 | |
| Romney, George W. | B1 | |
| Rusk, Dean | B2, B8 | |
| Russia | B1-B2, B5, B7, B9-B10 | |
| Scranton, William | B2-B3, B6-B9 | |
| Singapore | B2 | |
| South America | B7 | |
| Soviet Union | B1-B11 | |
| Stalin, Joseph | B6 | |
| Stassen, Harold | B2 | |
| Stevenson, Adlai E. | B4 | |
| Sukarno | B2-B4, B6, B8, B11 | |
| Supreme Court | B4 | |
| Syria | B4 | |
| Taylor, Maxwell | B3 | |
| Teamsters | B7-B9 | |
| Texas | B9 | |
| Thailand | B7 | |
| Thieu, Nguyen Van | B1 | |
| Thurmond, Strom | B2 | |
| Tito, Josip Broz | B2, B8-B9 | |
| Toure, Ahmed Sekou | B8 | |
| Tshombe, Moise | B7 | |
| Turkey | B6 | |
| U.S. Dollar | B5, B10 | |
| U.S. Senate | B1-B5, B8-B10 | |
| Ulbricht, Walter | B4, B10-B11 | |
| United Auto Workers | B6 | |
| United Nations | B1, B3-B11 | |
| Venezuela | B3 | |
| Vietnam | B1-B11 | |
| Vietnam War | B1-B7, B9-B10 | |
| Wallace, George | B1, B3-B5, B7-B8, B10 | |
| War on Poverty | B1-B5, B7-B9 | |
| Weaver, Robert C. | B9 | |
| White, Byron | B2 | |
| Wilson, Harold | B1-B3 | |
| Yugoslavia | B9 | |
| Zedong, Mao | B1-B3, B6-B11 | |
| airline industry | B9-B10 | |
| aliens | B11 | |
| aluminum industry | B4 | |
| armed forces | B1-B4, B7-B10 | |
| auto industry | B5-B9 | |
| automation | B1, B6, B8-B9 | |
| big business | B1, B3-B4, B6, B10 | |
| boycotts | B5, B10 | |
| budget | B1, B3-B5, B7-B8 | |
| capitalism | B9-B10 | |
| civil defense | B2-B3, B8 | |
| civil liberties | B7 | |
| civil rights | B2-B5, B7-B11 | |
| college students | B2 | |
| colonialism | B1 | |
| communism | B1-B3, B5-B11 | |
| consumers | B1, B7, B9 | |
| corruption | B2, B6, B8 | |
| cost of living | B3-B4, B7, B11 | |
| credit | B7, B8 | |
| crime | B1-B8, B9-B11 | |
| criminals | B2-B3, B8 | |
| de Gaulle, Charles | B1-B5, B7-B11 | |
| debt | B1, B9-B10 | |
| democracy | B1 | |
| disarmament | B1, B3-B4, B7-B9 | |
| draft | B3-B6, B11 | |
| driving | B1, B5-B6, B8-B9 | |
| economy | B1-B11 | |
| education | B1-B8, B10-B11 | |
| elections | B1, B3, B5-B10 | |
| espionage | B8 | |
| ethics | B2-B4, B6, B10 | |
| farming | B1-B3, B7-B9, B11 | |
| federal aid | B1, B7, B11 | |
| food | B6, B7, B9 | |
| foreign aid bill | B1-B2, B5, B8-B9 | |
| foreign policy | B2-B4, B6, B8-B11 | |
| free press | B2-B3, B10 | |
| freedom | B5, B9, B11 | |
| freedom of information | B10-B11 | |
| gambling | B4 | |
| gold prices | B10 | |
| government spending | B1-B4, B7-B11 | |
| gun control | B3, B7 | |
| healthcare | B1-B2, B4-B5, B8 | |
| highway construction | B4, B7, B9 | |
| holidays | B2, B4, B6, B9-B11 | |
| housing | B2, B4, B6-B7, B10 | |
| industry (general) | B1, B8 | |
| inflation | B2-B4, B6-B10 | |
| insurance | B4-B5 | |
| integration | B4, B8 | |
| jobs | B2, B5-B6, B8-B11 | |
| journalism | B2, B10 | |
| judicial system | B5 | |
| justice | B7-B8, B10 | |
| labor | B1-B2, B4-B11 | |
| law and order | B1, B4-B5, B8-B11 | |
| living conditions | B2 | |
| minimum wage | B1 | |
| nationalism | B1, B8 | |
| nature conservation | B1-B2, B4, B7-B8 | |
| neutrality | B7, B8, B11 | |
| nuclear weapons | B1-B5, B7-B11 | |
| oil | B9 | |
| organized crime | B4, B6, B8-B11 | |
| patriotism | B2 | |
| peace | B1-B3, B4-B10 | |
| police | B4-B5, B7, B9-B10 | |
| politicians | B3, B8-B9 | |
| politics | B10 | |
| pollution | B1-B2 , B4 | |
| population | B2 | |
| poverty | B2, B4, B6-B7, B9-B10 | |
| prices | B2-B3, B5-B9 | |
| prisoners of war | B1 , B7, B9-B10 | |
| prosperity | B1, B6-B11 | |
| public opinion | B1-B6, B8-B10 | |
| race relations | B1-B2, B10 | |
| racism | B1-B2, B4-B6, B9 | |
| railroad industry | B2-B10 | |
| recession | B8-B9 | |
| religion | B7 | |
| riots | B1-B2 | |
| school dropouts | B6 | |
| schools | B4, B7-B11 | |
| science | B3, B9 | |
| segregation | B1 | |
| social security | B2-B3, B8-B9 | |
| socialized medicine | B2, B8 | |
| soil and water management | B2 | |
| space exploration | B1-B3, B6-B10 | |
| sports | B1-B3, B5-B6, B8-B11 | |
| steel industry | B1-B2, B4-B5, B7, B9-B11 | |
| stock market | B1-B4, B6-B8, B10 | |
| strikes | B1, B3, B5, B7-B10 | |
| tariffs | B1-B3, B6-B7 | |
| taxes | B1-B11 | |
| teachers | B4, B8 | |
| television | B5, B9 | |
| terrorism | B1 | |
| tourism | B1 | |
| trade | B1-B3, B6-B8 | |
| transit and transportation | B6-B8, B10 | |
| unemployment | B1, B3-B4, B8-B9 | |
| unions | B3, B5-B11 | |
| urban problems | B10 | |
| urban renewal | B4, B7-B9 | |
| voting | B1-B3, B5-B11 | |
| voting rights | B7, B10 | |
| wage and price controls | B3-B4, B7-B9 | |
| war | B1, B4, B8-B11 | |
| water safety | B2 | |
| weapons | B2-B3, B8-B9 | |
| weather | B3-B5, B9-B11 | |
| welfare | B3, B6-B7, B10 | |
| white supremacy | B1, B4-B5, B10 | |
