Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Talburt, Harold M., 1895-1966 |
| Title: | Harold Talburt Cartoons |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1949-1962 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1949-1952 |
| Quantity: | 5.25 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Approximately 850 original editorial cartoons by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Harold M. Talburt (1895-1966) was an American editorial cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize.
Harold Talburt was born in Toledo, Ohio on February 19, 1895. Before becoming a cartoonist, Talburt worked as the high school correspondent for the Toledo Times and in 1916 was a reporter at the Toledo News-Bee. In 1921, Talburt was hired by Negley Cochran as the cartoonist for the newly opened Scripps-Howard news bureau in Washington and was later named Chief Washington Cartoonist for Scripps-Howard and the Washington Daily News. In his New York Times obituary, Talburt is noted as having enjoyed drawing Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt the most out of the presidents he covered during his career.
Talburt was a member of the National Press Club and the White House Correspondents Association. He was president of the Gridiron Club in 1947. The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Talburt for his 1933 Washington Daily News cartoon, "The Light of Asia". Talburt’s work was published in two books: Talburt (1943) and Cartoons: Largely Political (circa 1943).
Harold M. Talburt retired in 1963. He died of cancer at his home in Kenwood, Maryland on October 22, 1966.
The Harold Talburt Cartoons contain 858 original editorial cartoons from the years 1949-1952 and 1962.
Talburt primarily depicted domestic politics especially issues related to taxes and government spending. His portrayals of President Harry Truman often include Truman with a shirt with the words “tax" and "spend" on it. Talburt also devoted many cartoons to Truman’s scandals with a recurring visual motif labeled “the mess". Other recurring characters include Fiddle and Faddle, a pair of nearly identical figures with grinning faces and two prominent front teeth.
Also of interest is Talburt’s work depicting communism in Hawaii, reorganization of the government under Truman, mobilization for the Korean War and cartoons relating to the imprisonment of journalist William Oatis in Czechoslovakia.
Artwork varies in size, although most cartoons are generally 12"x 14" to 14 ½" x 17". The earlier cartoons in this collection were drawn exclusively in crayon and pencil on illustration board while later cartoons show his addition of ink. Captions appear at the top and dates are noted in pencil.
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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:
Harold Talburt Cartoons,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Gene Basset, 1971.
Created by: MD
Date: 23 Oct 2008
Revision history: 23 Oct 2008 - converted to EAD (MD);
27 May 2010 - added bio, scope and inventory (SK)
| Cartoons (850 items) | |||||||||||
| Click here for a detailed inventory. | |||||||||||
| See below for an index to the cartoons. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 1 | Jan 1949, Apr 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 2 | May 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 3 | Jun 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 4 | Jul 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 5 | Aug 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 6 | Sep 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 7 | Oct 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 8 | Nov 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 9 | Dec 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 10 | Dec 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 1 | Jan 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 2 | Feb 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 3 | Mar 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 4 | Mar 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 5 | Apr 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 6 | May 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 7 | Jun 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 1 | Jul 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 2 | Jul 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 3 | Aug 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 4 | Sep 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 5 | Nov-Dec 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 6 | Jan 1951, Jun 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 7 | Jul 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 8 | Aug 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 9 | Aug 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3, Folder 10 | Sep 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 1 | Oct 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 2 | Nov 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 3 | Dec 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 4 | Dec 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 5 | Jan 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 6 | Jan 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 7 | Feb 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 8 | Mar 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4, Folder 9 | Apr 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 1 | May 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 2 | Jun 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 3 | Jul 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 4 | Jul 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 5 | Aug 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 6 | Aug 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 7 | Sep 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5, Folder 8 | Sep 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 1 | Oct 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 2 | Oct 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 3 | Nov 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 4 | Dec 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 5 | Jan 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 6 | Jan 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 7 | Feb 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 8 | Mar 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6, Folder 9 | Apr 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 1 | May 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 2 | May 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 3 | Jun 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 4 | Jul-Aug 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 5 | Sep 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 6 | Oct 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 7 | Oct 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 8 | Nov 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7, Folder 9 | Dec 1962 | ||||||||||
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. | ||
| AFL-CIO | B1F8 | |
| Acheson, Dean | B2F2-B2F3, B2F5, B3F7, B5F4, B5F6-B6F2, B6F4 | |
| Alaska | B2F5, B4F5 | |
| Algeria | B6F8-B7F1, B7F5 | |
| Amerasia affair | B2F4-B2F7, B3F2, B4F9 | |
| Argentina | B4F2, B6F8-B6F9 | |
| Arnall, Ellis | B4F7 | |
| Atlantic Pact | B1F4 | |
| Atlee, Clement | B1F6, B2F4 | |
| Atomic Energy Commission | B1F2 | |
| Barkley, Alben W. | B1F9, B5F2, B5F4 | |
| Barnett, Ross | B7F6 | |
| Bay of Pigs | B7F6 | |
| Berlin | B2F1, B4F1, B7F4-B7F7 | |
| Berlin Wall | B7F4, B7F7 | |
| Boyle, William M. | B3F8-B3F9 | |
| Brannan Plan | B1F2-B1F3, B1F5, B1F9, B2F4, B2F7 | |
| Britain | B1F4, B1F6, B2F4, B4F4 | |
| Brown Sr., Edmund Gerald "Pat" | B7F3 | |
| Budenz, Louis F. | B2F5 | |
| Byrnes, James | B4F9 | |
| Canada | B7F3 | |
| Carpenter, Scott | B7F2 | |
| Castro, Fidel | B6F6-B6F8, B7F4-B7F9 | |
| China | B1F3-B1F6, B1F8, B2F7, B3F7-B3F9, B4F2-B4F3, B5F4, B6F9, B7F2-B7F3, B7F5, B7F8 | |
| Churchill, Winston | B1F6, B3F2, B4F1, B4F3, B4F6 | |
| Congress | B1F2-B1F6, B1F10, B2F4-B2F6, B3F1, B3F3-B3F4, B3F7, B3F9, B4F1, B4F5-B4F6, B5F2, B5F5, B6F1, B6F5-B7F6 | |
| Cuba | B7F4-B7F9 | |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | B7F7 | |
| Czechoslovakia | B3F7, B3F9-B3F10, B4F2, B4F9 | |
| Democratic Party | B1F2, B1F5-B1F6, B1F8, B1F10, B2F2, B2F4, B2F7-B3F1, B3F4-B3F5, B3F7-B3F10, B4F2-B6F2, B6F4, B6F9-B7F1, B7F3, B7F7, B7F9 | |
| Dewey, Thomas | B1F10, B3F4, B3F10 | |
| Di Salle, Michael | B3F6, B4F7 | |
| Dominican Republic | B6F5 | |
| Egypt | B4F6, B5F5 | |
| Eisenhower, Dwight | B1F10, B3F7, B3F9-B4F3, B4F5-B5F5, B5F8-B6F3, B7F1, B7F7 | |
| Eisenhower, Mamie | B6F3 | |
| Estes, Billie Sol | B6F9-B7F3 | |
| Europe | B1F3-B1F5, B1F8, B5F4, B6F5, B7F6, B7F9 | |
| Formosa | B1F1 | |
| France | B2F6, B4F7, B6F8 | |
| Freeman, Orville | B7F3 | |
| Frondizi, Arturo | B6F8 | |
| Germany | B2F6, B3F2, B3F4, B3F9, B4F7, B5F1 | |
| Glenn, John | B6F7 | |
| Greece | B3F2 | |
| Gromyko, Andrei | B3F10 | |
| Harriman, W. Averell | B5F2, B5F4 | |
| Hawaii | B1F5, B2F5, B4F5 | |
| Hiss, Alger | B2F1, B2F3, B5F7, B6F2 | |
| Hitler, Adolf | B3F1 | |
| Hobby, Oveta | B6F3 | |
| Hoffa, Jimmy | B7F8 | |
| Hoover Commission | B1F2, B2F6 | |
| India | B6F4, B7F8 | |
| Iran | B3F2, B5F4-B5F5 | |
| John Birch Society | B6F7 | |
| Johnston, Eric | B3F6 | |
| Kefauver, Estes | B4F7, B5F1-B5F2, B5F4 | |
| Kennedy, Jacqueline | B6F6 | |
| Kennedy, John F. | B6F5-B7F3, B7F5-B7F7 | |
| Kennedy, Robert F. | B6F7, B7F3, B7F5 | |
| Kennedy, Ted | B6F7, B7F3, B7F5 | |
| Kerr, Robert | B5F2, B5F4 | |
| Khrushchev, Nikita | B6F6-B7F1, B7F3-B7F9 | |
| Korean War | B2F7-B3F5, B3F7, B3F9-B3F10, B4F2, B4F7, B5F1, B5F4, B5F8, B6F2-B6F4 | |
| Laos | B7F1, B7F3 | |
| Lewis, John | B3F4, B6F4 | |
| Lucas, Scott | B1F2 | |
| Luce, Clare Booth | B6F6 | |
| MacArthur, Douglas | B3F5, B3F9 | |
| Macapagal, Diosdado | B7F2 | |
| Malik, Yakov | B3F3, B3F6 | |
| Marx, Karl | B3F9 | |
| McCarthy, Joseph | B2F5, B5F7 | |
| McGrath, J. Howard | B4F6, B4F9 | |
| McMahon, Brien | B2F4, B5F2 | |
| McNamara, Robert | B6F8, B7F5 | |
| Medicare | B7F2 | |
| Menon, V. K. Krishna | B7F8 | |
| Mississippi | B7F6 | |
| Monroe Doctrine | B7F5 | |
| Mussolini, Benito | B3F1 | |
| NATO | B7F1 | |
| Nehru, Jawaharlal | B7F8 | |
| New York | B1F8-B1F9, B3F4 | |
| Nixon, Richard M. | B5F3, B6F7, B7F3 | |
| Oatis, William | B3F7-B3F10, B4F2, B4F9, B5F4 | |
| Organization of American States | B6F5, B6F8 | |
| Pakistan | B7F8 | |
| Pepper, Claude | B2F6 | |
| Peron, Juan Domingo | B4F2, B6F8 | |
| Philippines | B7F1-B7F3 | |
| Priest, Ivy | B6F3 | |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | B3F10-B4F1 | |
| Republican Party | B1F2, B1F5-B1F6, B1F8, B1F10, B2F2, B2F4, B2F6-B3F1, B3F4-B3F5, B3F7-B3F8, B3F10, B4F2-B5F7, B6F2-B6F4, B6F7, B7F1-B7F3, B7F7, B7F9 | |
| Reuther, Walter | B7F1 | |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor | B7F8 | |
| Rusk, Dean | B6F9 | |
| Russell, Donald | B5F2, B5F4 | |
| Russia | B1F6, B3F1, B4F9, B5F8, B6F6, B6F8, B7F8 | |
| Soviet Union | B1F6, B3F3, B6F8-B6F9 | |
| Stalin, Joseph | B1F2, B1F5-B1F6, B1F10-B2F1, B2F4, B2F6-B3F10, B4F6, B5F1-B5F2, B5F5, B5F8-B6F1, B6F3-B6F4 | |
| Stassen, Harold | B4F5-B4F7, B4F9, B5F2 | |
| Stevenson, Adlai E. | B5F2, B5F4, B5F6-B6F2 | |
| Sweden | B5F2 | |
| Symington, Stuart | B5F5 | |
| Taft Hartley Act | B1F1, B1F3-B1F4, B2F1, B2F7, B5F1-B5F2 | |
| Taft, Robert | B3F4, B4F3, B4F5-B5F3 | |
| Teamsters | B7F8 | |
| Thailand | B7F1 | |
| Thurmond, Strom | B6F7 | |
| Tito, Josip Broz | B1F6 | |
| Truman, Harry S. | B1F1-B2F7, B3F2, B3F4-B5F8, B6F1-B6F2, B6F4, B7F6 | |
| Tshombe, Moise | B6F5 | |
| Turkey | B3F2 | |
| Tydings, Millard | B2F4, B2F6 | |
| U-2 incident | B6F7-B6F8 | |
| U.S. Postal Service | B1F3, B2F5, B6F6, B6F8 | |
| UFOs | B2F3 | |
| United Nations | B2F7-B3F1, B3F3, B3F9-B3F10, B6F2, B6F5, B7F5, B7F7-B7F9 | |
| Vaughan, Harry H . | B2F1, B4F1 | |
| Videla, Gonzales | B2F5 | |
| Vietnam War | B6F8 | |
| Vishinsky, Andrey | B6F4 | |
| Wallace, George | B3F3 | |
| Ward, Angus | B1F8-B1F9, B3F5 | |
| Warren, Earl | B4F3, B4F5-B4F8 | |
| Yugoslavia | B3F2 | |
| Zedong, Mao | B3F9, B6F4, B6F7, B7F8 | |
| airline industry | B7F3 | |
| armed forces | B1F7, B2F5, B3F3, B3F10, B5F6, B6F2 | |
| budget | B1F9-B2F2, B4F5-B4F6, B6F4, B6F6-B6F7, B7F3-B7F4 | |
| business | B1F3, B2F1-B2F2, B6F8, B7F1-B7F2, B7F4-B7F5, B7F8-B7F9 | |
| capitalism | B7F8 | |
| cartoonists | B1F6 | |
| censorship | B7F9 | |
| civil rights | B2F1, B5F1, B5F4 | |
| coal industry | B1F1, B1F7, B2F1-B2F3, B5F8, B6F4 | |
| communism | B1F2-B1F3, B1F5-B1F6, B1F8, B2F5, B2F7, B3F3-B3F4, B3F7, B4F4, B5F1, B5F5, B7F1, B7F3 | |
| consumers | B1F3, B1F9, B6F8, B7F4 | |
| corruption | B4F7, B4F9, B5F3, B5F6-B5F7 | |
| cost of living | B5F4, B6F4, B7F2, B7F4 | |
| crime | B2F5, B2F7 | |
| de Gaulle, Charles | B6F9, B7F2, B7F8 | |
| democracy | B5F1 | |
| disarmament | B6F5, B6F7-B6F9 | |
| economy | B1F3-B1F4, B7F4 | |
| education | B2F1 | |
| elections | B1F10-B2F1, B2F3, B2F5, B3F2, B3F5-B3F7, B4F2-B4F5, B4F7-B4F9, B5F5-B5F7, B6F1-B6F2, B6F5, B7F1-B7F2, B7F8 | |
| electoral college | B2F1 | |
| farming | B1F2-B1F3, B1F7-B1F9, B2F2, B2F5-B2F6, B4F7, B7F1-B7F4 | |
| freedom | B3F2, B6F3 | |
| gold reserve | B6F9, B7F2 | |
| government spending | B1F1-B1F6, B1F8-B2F7, B3F2, B4F6-B4F7, B5F1, B5F5, B7F3-B7F4, B7F6, B7F8-B7F9 | |
| graduates | B1F3, B2F7, B7F3 | |
| holidays | B4F4, B6F4, B7F8-B7F9 | |
| housing | B2F1 | |
| industry (general) | B7F4 | |
| inflation | B1F3-B1F4, B3F1-B3F5, B3F7, B3F9-B3F10, B4F2-B4F3, B4F5, B4F7, B5F5-B5F8, B6F2, B6F9 | |
| labor | B4F9 | |
| national debt | B6F4, B6F6, B7F6, B7F8 | |
| nuclear weapons | B1F2, B1F6, B6F6, B6F8-B6F9, B7F3-B7F4, B7F9 | |
| oil | B5F1 | |
| peace | B2F4, B3F9, B6F4 | |
| press | B3F10, B5F7, B7F9 | |
| prisoners of war | B4F2, B5F1 | |
| propaganda | B3F3, B3F7, B5F1, B6F8, B7F6 | |
| racial violence | B7F6 | |
| railroad industry | B4F2, B6F8 | |
| shipping industry | B4F2 | |
| social security | B2F1 | |
| socialism | B1F6 | |
| space exploration | B6F7, B7F4-B7F6 | |
| sports | B1F6, B3F5, B5F8 | |
| steel industry | B1F4, B1F6-B1F7, B1F9, B4F4, B4F8, B5F1-B5F3, B6F7-B7F1 | |
| stock market | B7F1-B7F4 | |
| strikes | B1F1, B1F4, B1F6-B1F7, B2F1-B2F3, B4F2, B4F4, B5F1-B5F3, B5F8, B6F7, B7F3 | |
| sugar lobby | B7F3 | |
| taxes | B1F1-B1F4, B1F7-B2F7, B3F2-B3F3, B4F1, B4F6-B4F7, B5F1, B5F5-B6F2, B6F4, B6F6-B6F9, B7F3-B7F5, B7F8-B7F9 | |
| terrorism | B3F7, B6F8-B7F1 | |
| textile industry | B7F5 | |
| trade | B3F10, B6F5-B6F9, B7F6 | |
| traffic fatalities | B5F5 | |
| transportation | B6F9 | |
| unions | B6F8 | |
| urban affairs | B6F7 | |
| vacation | B5F4, B5F6, B7F2 | |
| voting | B6F2 | |
| weather | B1F5, B2F5, B3F7, B5F5, B6F7 | |
