Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Morris, Milt, 1906-1994. |
| Title: | John Milt Morris Cartoons. |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1960-1968. |
| Quantity: | 1.3 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | 190 original editorial cartoons produced for the Associated Press. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
John Milton Morris (1906-1994), also known as Milt Morris, was an American cartoonist.
John Milt Morris was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1906. As a teenager, Morris was involved in an accident that left him in bed for an extended period of time. During his recovery, Morris spent his time drawing.
Morris’ first job after high school was in the morgue at the Los Angeles Herald Express. Morris pursued art classes at night and was able to transfer to the art department. At age 23, Morris moved to New York City, where he struggled to find a job during the Great Depression until being hired at the New York Journal American. Five years later in 1935, Morris began working for the Associated Press.
In the 1940s, Morris filled in for editorial cartoonist Henry "Hank" Barrow and when Barrow left the Associated Press in July 1949, Morris replaced him. During his career as an editorial cartoonist, Morris traveled to Washington D.C., often with other cartoonists, to draw caricatures of the president currently in office. Morris spent over 50 years with the Associated Press.
In addition to editorial cartoons, Morris also drew Oscar Hitt’s panel cartoon, Neighborly Neighbors and he worked on the comic strip Scorchy Smith. Morris was a member of the National Cartoonists Society and he won the 1956 National Headliners Club Award.
John Milt Morris died on May 1, 1994 from pneumonia.
The John Milt Morris Cartoons contain 190 pieces of original artwork for editorial cartoons produced for the Associated Press from 1960 to 1968. Morris' work focuses on national and international affairs. Frequent topics in this particular collection include the civil rights movement and urban riots, the Vietnam War including issues related to the draft and demonstrations, obscene reading materials and entertainment, and the Soviet Union.
Morris worked in ink and crayon on illustration board. Cartoons measure 12" x 14". Captions are typed and pasted on. Dates are written on the back in pen. Morris' name and address is also stamped on the back of each.
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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:
John Milt Morris Cartoons,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of John Milt Morris, 1969.
Created by: MD
Date: 1 Dec 2008
Revision history: 1 Dec 2008 - converted to EAD (MD);
14 May 2010 - added bio, scope and inventory (SK)
| Cartoons (190 items) 12" x 14" | |||||||||||
| Click here for a detailed inventory. | |||||||||||
| See below for an index to the cartoons. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 1 | Jan 1960, Mar-May 1960 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 2 | Jun-Dec 1960 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 3 | Jan-Jun 1961 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 4 | Jul-Oct 1961, Dec 1961 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 5 | Jan-Feb 1962, Apr-Jul 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 6 | Aug-Nov 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 7 | Feb-Aug 1963 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 8 | Sep-Dec 1963 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 1 | Jan 1964, Mar-Apr 1964, Jun-Jul 1964, Sep-Oct 1964, Dec 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 2 | Mar-May 1965, Jul-Sep 1965 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 3 | Oct-Dec 1965 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 4 | May-Jun 1966, Aug 1966, Oct-Dec 1966 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 5 | Jan 1967, Mar-May 1967 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 6 | Jul-Aug 1967, Oct-Nov 1967, undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 7 | Jan-Mar 1968, May-Jul 1968 | ||||||||||
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, F= Folder. For example: B1F1= Box 1 Folder 1. | ||
| Africa | B1F2, B1F8 | |
| Alabama | B1F7-B1F8 | |
| Algeria | B1F1, B1F6 | |
| Arkansas | B1F7 | |
| Asia | B1F8 | |
| Berlin | B1F3-B1F5 | |
| Berlin Wall | B1F8, B2F4 | |
| Black Power | B2F6 | |
| Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich | B2F4 | |
| Castro, Fidel | B1F3, B1F5-B1F6, B1F8 | |
| China | B1F3, B1F6-B1F7, B2F3-B2F5 | |
| Churchill, Winston | B1F5 | |
| Cleopatra (movie) | B1F7 | |
| Congo | B1F3 | |
| Congress | B1F2, B1F7, B2F4 | |
| Cuba | B1F6-B1F7 | |
| Democratic Party | B1F2, B1F6, B2F7 | |
| Eisenhower, Dwight | B1F1 | |
| Erhard, Ludwig | B1F8 | |
| Estes, Billie Sol | B1F5 | |
| Europe | B2F4 | |
| Ford, Gerald R. | B2F2 | |
| France | B2F2, B2F4 | |
| Fulbright, J. William | B2F2 | |
| Germany | B1F8, B2F4 | |
| Great Society | B2F4 | |
| Hammarskjold, Dag | B1F3 | |
| Hitler, Adolph | B1F3 | |
| Ho Chi Minh | B2F3, B2F5-B2F6 | |
| Hoover, Hebert | B2F1 | |
| India | B1F6 | |
| Iraq | B1F7 | |
| Japan | B1F1 | |
| Johnson, Lyndon Baines | B1F8-B2F2, B2F4, B2F6-B2F7 | |
| Kennedy, John F. | B1F1-B1F8, B2F5 | |
| Kennedy, Robert F. | B2F2 | |
| Khrushchev, Nikita | B1F3-B1F8 | |
| Kosygin, Alexey | B2F3 | |
| Laos | B1F7 | |
| MacArthur, Douglas | B2F1 | |
| McNamara, Robert | B2F1 | |
| Medicaid | B2F2 | |
| Middle East | B1F7, B2F6 | |
| Mississippi | B1F7 | |
| Monroe, Marilyn | B1F6 | |
| Morse, Wayne | B2F2 | |
| Nasser, Gamal Abdel | B1F7 | |
| Nazism | B2F4 | |
| Nehru, Jawaharlal | B1F6 | |
| New York City | B2F1 | |
| Nixon, Richard M. | B1F1-B1F2, B1F4, B2F7 | |
| Powers, Francis G. | B1F2 | |
| Princess Margaret | B1F1 | |
| Reagan, Ronald | B2F5 | |
| Republican Party | B1F2, B2F1, B2F7 | |
| Rockefeller, Nelson | B1F1-B1F2 | |
| Romney, George W. | B2F7 | |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor | B1F6 | |
| Russia | B1F4, B1F6, B2F3-B2F4 | |
| South Africa | B1F1 | |
| Soviet Union | B1F2-B1F3, B1F6-B1F7, B2F2, B2F4, B2F7 | |
| Syria | B1F7 | |
| Taft Hartley Act | B1F3 | |
| U.S. Postal Service | B2F7 | |
| United Auto Workers | B2F1 | |
| United Nations | B1F2, B1F5-B1F6, B1F8, B2F3 | |
| Venezuela | B1F8 | |
| Vietnam War | B1F4, B1F6, B2F1, B2F3-B2F7 | |
| Wallace, George | B2F7 | |
| Warren Commission | B2F4 | |
| Wilhelm II (Germany) | B1F3 | |
| World's Fair | B2F1 | |
| Zedong, Mao | B2F4-B2F5 | |
| alcohol | B1F7 | |
| armed forces | B2F2, B2F5, B2F7 | |
| auto industry | B2F1, B2F6 | |
| automation | B1F3 | |
| budget | B1F8, B2F4, B2F6 | |
| business | B1F2, B2F1 | |
| capital punishment | B2F2 | |
| capitalism | B1F6 | |
| civil defense | B1F5 | |
| civil rights | B1F1-B1F2, B1F5, B2F5 | |
| communism | B1F1, B1F3-B1F6, B1F8, B2F3 | |
| de Gaulle, Charles | B2F2-B2F4 | |
| demonstrations | B2F3, B2F6 | |
| disarmament | B1F7 | |
| draft | B2F3, B2F5 | |
| drug use | B1F6, B2F6 | |
| elections | B1F2, B1F5, B2F4, B2F6-B2F7 | |
| free enterprise | B1F8 | |
| free press | B1F8 | |
| gold | B2F7 | |
| government spending | B1F3, B2F1 | |
| graduates | B2F5 | |
| gun control | B2F7 | |
| holidays | B1F6, B2F3 | |
| hunger | B1F5 | |
| inflation | B1F5, B2F4, B2F6-B2F7 | |
| journalism | B1F7 | |
| judicial system | B2F3 | |
| juvenile delinquency | B2F2, B2F5 | |
| labor | B1F4 | |
| minimum wage | B1F3 | |
| national debt | B1F7 | |
| nuclear weapons | B1F1, B1F3-B1F7 | |
| peace | B1F2, B1F7, B2F3 | |
| police | B2F1 | |
| pollution | B2F1 | |
| population | B1F5 | |
| pornography | B1F7 | |
| poverty | B2F2 | |
| power outage | B2F3 | |
| prisoners of war | B2F2 | |
| profanity | B1F7, B2F2, B2F7 | |
| propaganda | B1F6, B2F7 | |
| racial violence | B1F7-B1F8 | |
| racism | B2F6 | |
| railroad industry | B1F1, B1F7 | |
| religion | B1F5 | |
| riots | B2F6 | |
| school dropouts | B1F7 | |
| schools | B1F5, B1F7 | |
| shipping industry | B1F3 | |
| smoking | B2F1 | |
| socialism | B1F1 | |
| space exploration | B2F3 | |
| steel industry | B1F1, B2F1-B2F2 | |
| strikes | B1F1, B1F3, B1F7, B2F1-B2F2, B2F6 | |
| taxes | B1F5, B1F7, B2F4, B2F6 | |
| tourism | B2F4 | |
| traffic fatalities | B1F6, B2F4 | |
| transportation | B1F5 | |
| unemployment | B2F1 | |
| violence | B2F2, B2F5 | |
| voting | B1F2, B2F3 | |
| water supply | B2F2 | |
