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Daniel in the lions' den CD 1 - Dowling, no. 10 (B size)...

TITLE:Daniel in the lions'' den

CALL NUMBER:CD 1 - Dowling, no. 10 (B size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:_ _ _ _ _

SUMMARY:Cartoon shows John Q. Public (labeled "Consumer") accompanied by two small children, relaxing in a lions'' den (labeled "Uncontrolled Prices"). One smiling lion wheels a child in a baby carriage while the other child stands with a lion at the mouth of a cave. John Q. Public comments "I thought this was supposed to be so dangerous." Using the motif of the Bible story, warns that consumer indifference to rising prices may be potentially hazardous. Actually prices had remained relatively stable in 1952.

MEDIUM:1 drawing.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1953 Mar. 10.

CREATOR:

Dowling, Daniel Blair, 1906- artist.

NOTES:

(DLC/PP-1953:R21.9)

Published in: New York Herald Tribune.

mm / 860407; ljr / 950222.

Source: Britannica book of the year, 1953, p. 579.

SUBJECTS:

Inflation--United States--1950-1960.
Consumers--United States--1950-1960.
Lions--1950-1960.
John Q. Public--1950-1960.
Baby carriages--1950-1960.

FORMAT:

Editorial cartoons American.
Drawings.

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) acd 2a08562

CONTROL #:acd1996003423/PP





Pop Art Machine Code: acd-2a08000-2a08500-2a08562