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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link Do you fellows have any more bright ideas on how to help the war...TITLE:Do you fellows have any more bright ideas on how to help the war effort by tearing up park areas?CALL NUMBER:CD 1 - Berryman (C.K.), no. 184 (A size) <P&P>[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:_ _ _ _ _ SUMMARY:World War II cartoon shows Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes asking Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox if they "have any more bright ideas on how to help the war effort by tearing up park areas"? Behind them stretches an almost empty parking lot containing a sign reading "War and Navy Dept. Parking Lot. Formerly the Polo Grounds. Cost of Converting Park Land to Parking Lot -- $115,353.73. Capacity -- 2,606 Autos. Daily Use -- About 610 Automobiles." In July 1942, it was reported that due to gasoline and tire rationing, the parking lots on the old Polo Field in Potomac Park were little used. Ickes, an ardent conservationist, was determined to leave the National Park system bigger and better than he found it. MEDIUM:1 drawing. CREATED/PUBLISHED:1942 July 2. CREATOR: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist. NOTES: Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.). (DLC/PP-1945:R2.177) mm / 860115; ljr / 020110. Source: Evening star, July 2, 1942, p. 1 -- ljr SUBJECTS: Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952. FORMAT: Editorial cartoons American. PART OF:Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll film copy) acd 2a05889 CONTROL #:acd1996000503/PP
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