Chucking the Jonah – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Chucking the Jonah. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chucking the Jonah
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A biblical allusion drives this one: Jonah was the passenger thrown overboard to calm a storm, and the title "Chucking the Jonah" turns that story into a political joke. Sidney Greene drew it for *The Evening Telegram* in June 1915, weeks after the Lusitania was torpedoed off Ireland with many Americans aboard. That sinking intensified debate in Washington over whether the United States could stay neutral in the First World War. The caption tags point to Uncle Sam, the president, and neutrality, though the record's data is unverified, so the drawing itself is the best guide to who is being thrown overboard.
| Created / published | 1915 June 3. |
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| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of drawing by Sidney Greene in The Evening Telegram, 1915 June 9. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Uncle Sam; Pres.; B.I.; WWI; Neutrality; Cartoons, U.S.; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 969 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157511 |
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