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Strikes and Disputes Cartoon by Karl Kae Knecht

64-509
Accession Number
64-509
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 343791711
Keywords
Political cartoons
People Pictured
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
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Description
In this political cartoon, President Harry S. Truman (behind the wheel) drives a car with Uncle Sam (first on left) and an American in the backseat (center). The cartoon highlights the economic difficulty the country faced reconverting from a wartime economy to a peacetime one. Karl Kae Knecht created this cartoon which appeared in the Evansville (Indiana) Courier on September 17, 1945. This cartoon is in the museum collection of the Truman Library.
Date(s)
1945