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There are so many other places they can go! – Historic Print

There are so many other places they can go!, 1928 — historic drawing
There are so many other places they can go!, 1928. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Its title, "There are so many other places they can go!", and its subject headings point to Calvin Coolidge, the 1928 presidential race, and a scene of sleeping children. Coolidge had taken office in 1923 after Warren G. Harding's death, and in August 1927 he announced he would not seek another term, opening the field that Herbert Hoover went on to win. The record suggests the drawing ran in a Washington daily, probably the Evening Star, where editorial cartoons used simple visual jokes to comment on politicians and campaign season. The record does not name the artist, so the exact joke is best read from the caption and the figures themselves.

Created / published1928
Medium1 drawing.
GenreEditorial cartoons American.Drawings.
NotesProbably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.) (DLC/PP-1945:R1.167) mm / 860122; ljr / 040324.
SubjectsCoolidge, Calvin,--1872-1933. Presidential elections--United States--1920-1930. Children sleeping--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,302 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110780

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