Aw, these are only straws!

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Artist	Sykes, Charles Henry, 1882-1942
Title	Aw, these are only straws!
Displayed Title	"Aw, these are only straws!"
Date Created	1941-10
Date Published	1941-10-13
Publishing Note	Cartoon was published in the Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia) on October 13, 1941.
Original Item Medium	Ink and crayon on coquille board.
Original Item Size	53 cm. x 35.5 cm.
Contained Text	The tax-payer; Defen$e ¢o$t$ [Defense costs]; $tate & lo¢al ¢o$t$ [state & local costs]
Topical Subject	Military readiness -- Economic aspects -- United States; Military readiness -- Costs; Taxation -- United States; Local taxation -- United States; Taxation, State -- United States -- States
Geographic Subject	United States - Defenses -- Economic aspects
Local Genre	comic art
Genre	political cartoons; editorial cartoons
LC Classification	NC1429.S945
Time Period	Twentieth century; Nineteen forties
Type	Stillimage
Digital Format	image/jp2
Language	eng
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Sykes Editorial Cartoon Collection
Source	Original Cartoon: Aw, these are only straws, Charles Henry Sykes Cartoon Collection, Accession #M 169, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Contributor	James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Digitization Process	Photographed with Nixon D40X, with full 10MP, RAW format, custom settings for lighting.

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