Finding
aid for the collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center
Title: Leon
T. Walkowicz collection of editorial cartoon drawings,
ca. 1939-1951
Accession
number: 1985.0299
107 drawings : ink
drawings ; 41 x 51 cm.
Storage: Box Lot (1 21" x 24" box)
Description
of the collection
Original cartoons depicting events in World
War Two by Chicago
newspaper
cartoonists Battenfield, Orr, Parrish, Plascke,
Shoemaker, and
Werner.
Credit artists.
Gift of Felice
M. Walkowicz (1985.0299).
Related materials at Chicago History
Museum, Research Center, include the Leon T. Walkowicz
editorial cartoon collection (1992.0238) and the Felice
M. Walkowicz papers.
Container
list
Folder 1:
Werner
1 In the land of the
free
2 The rights you
tried to destroy? July 31, 1942
3 Oh boy! I'm winning
again!
Folder 2:
Shoemaker
4 The road back?
5 The fall guy
6 Heart trouble
7 Stalking all
borders
8 Modern juggernaut
9 Only stirring up
trouble for himself, March 20, 1941
10 All he wants is
elbow room
11 Getting harder to
swallow, March 28, 1941
12 The shot heard
around the world
13 Black widow
14 The haves have
knots
15 Red Danube
16 Coming up?
17 Recognition
18 Courage, Adolf!,
July 5, 1941
19 United they stand
20 Melting fast
21 Will French family
squabbles fool German again?
22 That familiar
predicament
23 The French point
of view--east means west
24 Europe's auto show
25 Regimentation--from
teething ring to tombstone
26 Oh, sure!
27 Fattening the
goose
28 Maybe it's an axis
trick, February 1, 1941
29 Anti-peave movement of 1936
30 I march ahead of
my people as their first soldier
Folder 3:
Parrish
31 Comlade
Stalin pick velly tellible
highway!, August 27,
1951, autographed by artist
32 The barrage,
September 17, 1939
33 Among the war
casualties, September 11, 1939
34 Reassurances from
the global gymnast, December 1, 1944
35 Cartoon comment,
September 5, 1939
36 How much farther
can it stretch without breaking?, September
7, 1939
37 Lit at last,
September 3, 1939
Folder 4:
Plaschke
38 Dance macabre
39 A big hand for the
little lady, September 23, 1939
40 Staunch ally,
September 12, 1939
41 Fog over the
Aleutians, August 4, 1942
42 Labor Day parade,
September 3, 1942
43 The night before
Christmas
44 Via Moscow
45 The invite
46 The heathen,
September 19, 1939
47 Darkest Africa
48 Bismarch
herring
49 Where's the
difference
50 Time bomb
51 To be or not to be
52 Thunder over the
Balkans
53 French evolution
54 No man's land,
September 14, 1939
55 Respectable now
56 Boarding house
reach, September 22, 1939
57 After the deluge
58 Bootleg war
veteran
59 Among my souvenirs
60 The monkey-wrench
61 The voice of
experience, September 25, 1939
62 Return engagement,
September 28, 1939
63 The tempter,
September 13, 1939
64 Service with a
smile, September 30, 1939
65 In Nazi land, July
31, 1942
66 Zero hour
67 Keep the home
fires burning, September 31, 1939
68 General staff,
September 7, 1939
69 Our front line of
defense
70 I accepted an
invite to Moscow, October 7, 1939
71 Blackout, September
2, 1939
72 Alias Ferdinand,
September 8, 1942
73 Give 'em the works
74 The Solomons in all their glory, August 13, 1942
75 Heil
and Farewell, September 17, 1942
76 Kibitzer
77 Heil
Hitler
78 Turning back the
clock
79 The ramparts they
watch, September 11, 1942
Folder 5:
Orr
80 Guide to the
Abattoir, April 3, 1950, autographed by artist
81 Maybe we ought to
do a little insisting, too, August 8,
1943, autographed
82 Jumping off place,
August 18, 1939
83 The man who walks
with death, August 8, 1939
84 So far it's a
fizzler, but he's still working on it, July 4,
1939
85 In the Kaiser's
footsteps
86 Beginning to get
on his nerves, July 2, 1939
87 Tracking together,
August 22, 1939
88 Still looking for
a perch, August 31, 1939
Folder 6:
Battenfield
89 Next act of the
Axis?
90 Peace, it's
wonderful
91 Come on, chum,
tell F. D. R. we're pals
92 Melodrammer
abroad!
93 Casting the die
94 Paper hanger
95 War forecaster's
nightmare
96 Matchmaker in
distress
97 Look behind you,
congressman!
98 Shake it up, Adolf
99 See the point,
Adolf?
100 I see no aggression
101 20 years after
102 Smoke
screen?
103 Civilization's zero
104 And they call this Mars!
105 Argument for
peace
106 A banner with a strange device
107 Voting