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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 Freeze, followed by thaw? / R. A. Lewis. Unprocessed [item]...TITLE:Freeze, followed by thaw? / R. A. Lewis.CALL NUMBER:Unprocessed [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-07424 (digital file from original drawing) SUMMARY:Editorial cartoon shows Uncle Sam as a weather forecaster, holding a graph labeled "Price-Wage Chart" and looking at a weather map of the United States on which Washington is designated with a large star. He is surrounded by the tools of his trade including a thermometer, an anemometer, a hygrothermograph, and a Hansel and Gretel House barometer. In January 1951 during the Korean War, the Truman Administration imposed wage and price controls in an effort to control inflation. The step was viewed as a temporary stopgap measure. Ross Lewis was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for the Milwaukee Journal for 35 years. MEDIUM:1 drawing : crayon, ink, and blue pencil over graphite underdrawing ; 27.9 x 35.7 cm (sheet) CREATED/PUBLISHED:[1951?] CREATOR: Lewis, Ross, artist. NOTES: Title from item. Inscribed: To Art Wood, and I hope it''s thawing by now in Old Virgininy, Ross Lewis, Apr. 13/51. Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in WOOD/Lewis.368 Source: Washington post, Jan. 27, 1951,p. 1, 8 -- ljr SUBJECTS: Price regulation--United States--1950-1960. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) American 1950-1960. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original drawing) ppmsca 07424 CARD #:2004679107
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