"This is the forest, primeval--"
Concern for the depletion of our natural resources is not new.
In his first daily cartoon, Herb Block deplored the clear-cutting
of America's virgin forests and foreshadowed the economic wasteland
to come in the next decade. The caption is the first line of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline.
This is the
forest, primeval--, April 24, 1929
Reproduction of original drawing
Published in the Chicago Daily News (1)
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The philanthropist
The Great Depression devastated the United States in the 1930s,
leaving as much as 25 percent of the workforce unemployed. People
who lost their jobs began selling five-cent apples on the streets
of American cities, providing a symbol of the economic hardships
of the era.
The philanthropist,
December 5, 1930
Ink and blue pencil over blue pencil underdrawing with mechanical
tone shading on layered paper Published in the Chicago Daily
News (2)
LC-USZ62-127206
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Isn't this what we really want?
In the 1930s, the United States renounced some of the traditional
rights of neutrality in an effort to keep out of the looming European
wars. The Neutrality Act of 1935 embargoed shipment of arms to aggressors
or victims. By 1939, despite various modifications to the original
act, these self-imposed restrictions were increasingly at odds with
other national interests.
Isn't this what
we really want? 1939
Ink, crayon, and opaque white over blue pencil underdrawing on layered
paper
Published by NEA Service, Inc. (4)
LC-USZ62-127208
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Little Goldilocks Riding Hood
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, signed August 24, 1939, opened
the way for Germany and the Soviet Union to invade and partition
Poland. Germany's ffinvasion of Poland on September 1 precipitated
World War II.
Little Goldilocks
Riding Hood, 1939
Ink, crayon, and opaque white over blue pencil underdrawing on layered
paper
Published by NEA Service, Inc. (5)
LC-USZ62-127201
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"Light! More light!" - Goethe's last words
In his drive to make Germany into a Fascist Aryan empire, Adolf
Hitler took control of all aspects of religion, art, literature,
and cultural life. Nineteenth-century poet, novelist, playwright,
scientist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe embodied for many
the best of German thought and culture.
"Light! More
light!" - Goethe's last words, 1933
Ink, crayon, and opaque white over blue pencil underdrawing on layered
paper
Published by NEA Service, Inc. (6)
LC-USZ62-127330
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"No Foreign entanglements"
In the 1930s, the United States Senate took an isolationist position
against any kind of U.S. involvement in international engagements,
ranging from refusal to join the World Court to the passage of the
various Neutrality Acts. The provisional neutrality act passed the
Senate in 1935.
"No Foreign
entanglements," 1935
Ink, crayon, and opaque white over blue pencil underdrawing on laid
paper
Published by NEA Service, Inc. (7)
LC-USZ62-127328
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Losses
After Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939, the
United States began to supply England and other allies with as much
material as possible. Yet it continued to sell oil and scrap iron
to Japan, despite that country's aggressions in China and elsewhere
in the Far East. American shipments destined to help the Allies
were lost to German submarine warfare, but material destined for
Japan arrives safely.
Losses,
1939
Ink, crayon, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing on layered
paper
Published by NEA Service, Inc. (9)
LC-USZ62-127198
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