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[Anti-German cartoons concerning the U-Boat sinking of the Steamer SUSSEX in 1916] – Historic Print

[Anti-German cartoons concerning the U-Boat sinking of the Steamer SUSSEX in 1916], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
[Anti-German cartoons concerning the U-Boat sinking of the Steamer SUSSEX in 1916], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Steamboats 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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This cartoon takes aim at the torpedoing of the French cross-Channel steamer Sussex, which a German submarine struck in the English Channel in March 1916, with Americans among the injured. The drawing is credited to W.A. Rogers, a prominent American cartoonist of the period, and the caption card places it among 1916 cartoons critical of Germany. The attack pushed Washington toward a sharp diplomatic confrontation, and Germany's later pledge to spare unarmed passenger ships grew out of that crisis. The card gives no date, so the 1916 connection rests on its subject.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print.
SubjectsRepro. of drawing by W.A. Rogers. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons, U.S.--1916; WWI--Sub warfare; Ships--SUSSEX; BI; For. Relations; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,179 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-150661

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