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Frankenstein – Antique Print

Frankenstein, 1958 July 8 [publication date] — historic drawing
Frankenstein, 1958 July 8 [publication date]. 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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A window into the past: Frankenstein, 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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The Frankenstein monster, a figure from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, serves here as a stand-in for communism, a symbol Cold War cartoonists often reached for. The subject headings link the drawing to relations between China and the Soviet Union and to the Kremlin, pointing to the strained partnership between Moscow and Beijing in the late 1950s. Bill Mauldin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner known for his World War II cartoons of soldiers Willie and Joe, drew it for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where it ran on July 8, 1958.

Created / published1958 July 8 [publication date]
Medium1 drawing on layered paper board : ink and white out over pencil.
GenreEditorial cartoons 1950-1960.Drawings 1950-1960.
NotesGift; Bill Mauldin; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:078.548). Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 8, 1958. Forms part of the Papers of Bill Mauldin (Library of Congress).
SubjectsFrankenstein (Fictitious character) International relations--China--1950-1960. International relations--Soviet Union--1950-1960. Communism--1950-1960. Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,205 × 5,175 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-211574

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