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Cartoon of a wounded veteran whose service enriched government coffers

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    Cartoon of a wounded veteran whose service enriched government coffers

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    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.
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1890 May 29
    Geography
    publication:
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, top, black ink : WASHINGTON D.C. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1890.
    front, left within image, black ink : THE VETERAN / Because He Fought / It is Thus (over store: U.S. TREASURY / sack, YeBondholder (His Swag) / $ 5,000,000,000.00]
    front, right within image, black ink : Had He Not Fought / It woud Have Been Thus (over sign Highest cash prince paid / for / old paper / 1/2 cent per lb.
    front, bottom center within image, black ink : Coffin
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Cartoonist: George Yost Coffin
    Biography
    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.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Illustrations
    Physical Description
    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.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)
    Materials
    overall : newsprint, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The cartoon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Special Collection
    Katz Ehrenthal Collection
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 18:30:37
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