Informal recess -- for an Easter egg hunt – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Informal recess -- for an Easter egg hunt, preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Informal recess -- for an Easter egg hunt
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Here, five leaders of the House and Senate appear as children on an Easter egg hunt, under the title "Informal recess." The cartoonist's joke rests on the idea that Congress had paused its business for the holiday, even as the United States was fighting World War II. Sam Rayburn, John McCormack, Joseph Martin, Alben Barkley, and Charles McNary were among the lawmakers who guided legislation in those years. Wartime cartoons like this one often used such light scenes to comment on the gap between political routine and the larger national crisis.
| Created / published | 1942 April 5. |
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| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons American.Drawings. |
| Subjects | McCormack, John W.,--1891- Rayburn, Sam,--1882-1961. McNary, Charles Linza,--1874-1944. Barkley, Alben William,--1877-1956. Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William),--1884-1968. United States.--Congress--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Political aspects--1940-1950. Children playing outdoors--1940-1950. Easter--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,365 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117212 |
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