Folder 2
Contains 5 Results:
Original Number: 81, 1932-11-13
Caption: none Description: “D.C.” gestures to figures representing the sick and the poor, and states the monetary amounts needed for the Community Chest in 1933. A sign reads explains that Washington faces the ”greatest need for service to humanity” ever in the year ahead.
Original Number: 69, 1946-07-08
Caption: Washington Slept Here Description: A scene of a park full of litter, with newspapers and empty bottles all over the ground.
Original Number: 24
Caption: none Description: Surrounded by discouraging news stories, “D.C.” reads that Walter Johnson promises the coming year will be his best ever. “D.C.” exclaims, “Ah ha! All is not gloom!”
Original Number: 41
Caption: Another Glimpse of Beautiful Washington [in pencil] Description: A visitor is stuck in a traffic jam, surrounded by various wagons and trucks carrying trash and pollutants. The landscape is also covered by garbage.
Original Number: 45
Caption: none Description: A figure representing the Rent Commission sits on a fence before a raging bull labeled “Rent problems.” A rhyme in the corner reads: “There once was a young man who said, ‘How can I escape from this terrible cow? / I’ll sit on this stile / And continue to smile / Which may soften the heart of this cow.’”