Harold Morton Talburt lithographs

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: RITArt-0047

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

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. Cartoons are listed below by title:

Another Attack We'd Like to Back if Nobody Objects!

Bright Light on a Darkened World!

The Canning Season Gets Off to a Good Start

Caught in his Own Chop-Sticks

Come on - Let's Make it a Clean Shave!

Crack of Doom?

Dance of the Dying Swan!

Don't 'Look' Now, But ----

End of Another Chapter!

His Whipping Boy!

Japanese Sandman!

Journey's End?

Making a Stab at it!

New Balcony?

No Time for Stunt Flying!

Personally, Benito, We Think Bob Hope's Funnier!

Return of the Prodigal!

Slugging it Out - Toe to Toe!

Somebody Seems to have Planted Loco-Weed in our Victory Garden

Something Just as Good

Uh-Huh! But There Certainly is a Lot of Smoke!

The Unconscientious Objector!

Whatever Became of that 'Safe and Sane' Movement?

Who Said Washington Wouldn't be Bombed!

Dates

Creation: circa 1940-1950

Creator

Talburt, Harold M. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to researchers.

Biographical / Historical

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.