us-005578-irn537029-irn544942
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Cartoon cut from a newspaper. Under glass in worn stained grooved wooden frame; plywood back wrapped in treated paper red, white, blue stars and stripes, US flag. eye screw in frame side with piece of tied plastic twine.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
date: 1890 May 29
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Item
history: The cartoon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
history: The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
identifier: irn544942
is or was included in: us-005578-irn537029
record resource extent: overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Editorial cartoon, The Veteran, by George Yost Coffin, clipped from the Washington Chroncle, a 19th century US newspaper. It depicts a Civil War veteran, missing one leg, between stacks of US treasury bags filled with gold, titled"Because He Fought" next to a scene of a Jewish dealer offering to buy old paper labelled US bonds, titled"Had He Not Fought" This cartoon is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
title: Cartoon of a wounded veteran whose service enriched government coffers