us-005578-irn538362-irn621654
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archival history: The political cartoon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Sally Carter, the daughter of Albert E. Carter.
biographical history: Albert Edwin Carter (1909-1992) was born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, to Reverend Joel Miles (1869-1947) and Mary Melissa Cass (1874-1958) Carter. Joel was born in Tennessee to William (1844-1901) and Mary (1842-1918) Carter and had one brother. Mary Melissa was born in Tennessee to William Marion (1834-1902) and Julia Ann Dorcas Douglass (1836-1879) Cass and had nine siblings and half-siblings. Joel became a Methodist clergyman, following in the footsteps of seven previous generations in his family. Albert had five older siblings: Carroll Douglass (1900-1955), Joseph (1903-?), Clyde Cass (1904-1985), William Eugene (1905-1972), and Mary Juliet (1907-1958). The family moved around southern Virginia for the first decade of Albert’s life. In the 1920s, they settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1929-1933, Albert attended the University of Chattanooga. By 1930, 20-year-old Albert was working as a cartoonist and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon passed that restricted every aspect of Jewish life and altered how many Germans interacted with Jewish community members. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). The nation withdrew from the League of Nations, reinstituted the draft, and openly rearmed and remilitarized the Rhineland. These changes prompted many foreign scholars, reporters, government officials, and foreign correspondents, among others, to pay closer attention to Germany. In many cases these individuals, or their representatives, made their way to Germany to document what was happening first hand. In early 1934, Albert was among these individuals that traveled through Germany, in his case, by bike. He documented his experiences throughout the trip. On November 15, 1934, Albert boarded the SS Quistconck on the Italy-controlled island of Susak (now Croatia…
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Black-and-white political cartoon, hand drawn in black ink on heavyweight, tan paper, depicting a portrait of Paul Joseph Goebbels from the shoulders up. He is centered on the page in left-facing profile and depicted with a very large forehead that slopes backward toward a receding hairline. His dark, stringy hair is slicked back and emphasizes how his rounded head comes to an exaggeratedly elongated point at the back. His head also appears to be tilted back slightly. One partially lidded eye is visible beneath a thick, slightly arched eyebrow, and a prominent, pointed nose with a curved bridge dominates his profile. His narrow mouth is open and clenched teeth are visible. There are defined curve lines around his mouth and chin as though he is pulling back the corners of his mouth and grimacing. His left ear has a small lobe with cross-hatched shadowing just beneath it and along the inner edge. He has a short neck ringed by a low, white shirt collar with the knot of a tie is visible at the front. He also wears a jacket shaded with thin black lines, and part of the collar and shoulder are depicted. The artist’s signature is visible to the right of the figure’s shoulder. Three lines of script identifying the man and the placement of the image in a newspaper are penciled beneath him. On the back, a circular, embossed paper manufacturer’s mark is visible in the lower left corner, and the reverse is visible in the lower right corner of the front. There are pinholes in the upper corners, and paper’s edges are slightly irregular. The surface of the paper is worn and peeling in places, and there are pencil smudges and discoloration throughout. below image, bottom center, handwritten script, pencil : Paul Joseph Goebbels / Sunday Foreign / 1 – col
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has beginning date: 1936-01-01
has end date: 1943-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 799
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn621654
is or was included in: us-005578-irn538362
record resource extent: overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)
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scope and content: Political cartoon depicting German Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). These policy changes prompted foreign scholars, government officials, and reporters, like Albert, to make their way to Germany to document events. For much of 1934, Albert traveled around Germany by bike while recording his experiences. In 1936, Albert became the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the paper. Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Japan frequently made international headlines in the second half of the 1930s, and all had leaders represented in Albert’s cartoons. Spurred by a growing interest in South America’s relationship to the US and events in Europe that led up to the war, Albert visited all the nations of South America as a reporter and researcher from 1940 into 1941. Albert returned to the US early in 1941, where he published “The Battle for South America” later that year. In 1943, Albert became a Foreign Service Officer serving in Central and South America for the U.S. State Department. In 1946, Albert married Dorothy Sharp Carter, an American school teacher, in Costa Rica. Dorothy and their four children accompanied Albert while he was posted at embassies throughout his career, including Uruguay, Panama, Paraguay, and Germany.
title: Political cartoon depicting Joseph Goebbels created by an American journalist