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William Henry Walker

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Pen drawing of skeletons working a railway station platform with signs for Pearly Gates and Elysian Fields, 1912.

Public Service

1912

Ink drawing of three battleships with American flags and cartoon faces sailing through rough waves, with fish and a sea serpe

Three U.S. war ships traveling through rough waters

1905

Caricature of a top-hatted man at a desk among money bags, with a ghostly rider on horseback on the wall behind.

Wanted. A Paul Revers

1916

Caricature of five men singing from sheet music before the Capitol dome, one in a spiked helmet, with a top-hatted bird at le

Whose country

1915

Charcoal drawing of a goggled driver in a motor car speeding through snow, scattering pedestrians and overturning horse carri

A reckless driver runs over a child, crashes two horse drawn carriages which also results in injuries, and causes ped…

1903

Pen and ink drawing of two workers on wooden construction framework shouting across the height, with steamboats on the harbor

Two construction workers shout at each other while building a structure

1906

Caricature drawing of large labeled men leaping over a small figure representing the public.

Several large men run in a circle and jump over a small man representing the public, oppressing him

1920

Drawing of a scowling globe with a face, held by a soldier who thrusts a sword at a startled smaller soldier, with smoke behi

Not in his war plans

1914

Ink cartoon of a seated stout king and a bearded robed clergyman pointing at him, with glasses and a pitcher between them.

The King and His Reverence Lyman Abbott. ‘Naughty, naught’

1910

Pen drawing of an armored warrior with a shield standing over fallen figures labeled lobby and special privilege, dated 1914.

The Professor

1914

Caricature drawing by William Henry Walker, 1915: winged Peace figure, knight on a Ford car, armored warrior with European Wa

Sancho, you’ve got him Henry

1915

Charcoal drawing of a man in a suit pointing at a dog-headed seated figure across a small table with an American flag.

The Root of the whole matter

1917

Pencil drawing of Uncle Sam running with a globe as a football, pursued by caricatured figures on a snowy field.

Uncle Sam as a football player is running with the ball

1899

Ink caricature of a giant grasping a man labeled Merger and Rebate, with a hooded figure and a fleeing man nearby.

Mr. Riis (recitative)

1910

Pen and ink drawing of Uncle Sam at a door locked against Oriental peoples while immigrant figures labeled Bolshevism wait ne

Candidate for the Melting Pot; Undesirable Desirable

1919

Pen and ink caricature of a plumed rider on a donkey leading uniformed men on donkeys past a cheering crowd with a banner.

After the victory

1913

Pen and ink cartoon of a boy labeled Public confronting three men labeled Politics, Capital and Labor, 1920.

The worm will turn. You fellows have picked on me long enough

1920

Ink caricature from 1910 of a rifle-carrying soldier with a child and teddy bear, a crowd below and a banner at left.

Ever pursued by the inexplorable limelight

1910

Ink drawing of a man leading a donkey beside an elephant with money on its trunk, and a farmer raking a pile of dollar bills.

Quit talking about how much the elephant gets

1920

Pen and ink cartoon of Uncle Sam in a motorboat greeting a British warship with John Bull and a lion, eagle overhead.

Greetings

1917

Pen-and-ink caricature of an eagle in striped Uncle Sam trousers beside an ostrich with a crown and a rooster labeled France.

The United States depicted as an eagle, Great Britain as an ostrich, and France as a rooster

1901

Cartoon of a helmeted soldier fleeing a shell marked DEMOCRACY over a battlefield of corpses, 1917.

It’ll get you Billy

1917

Ink cartoon of a sombrero-clad Huerta swinging a sword at a uniformed officer while a crowd behind a wall throws debris.

Look out, Mr. President, your worst enemies are behind

1914

Ink drawing of a man in ornate armor holding a shield inscribed 'American Drama' with a roaring lion's head.

A man in ornate armor. His shield reads ‘American Drama’

1910

Sepia print of robed men storming a columned Roman senate chamber, with a fallen figure on the floor in the foreground.

A mob of men in Roman robes, representing the Trusts, have taken over the Senate and killed a man representing compet…

Drawing of a man in a polar bear costume playing a trombone labeled Hughes beside a music stand titled My Policies, 1916.

You haven’t any notes, Charlie. It’s all the same to her

1916

Charcoal drawing of Uncle Sam with a rifle watching soldiers charge across a field while a bulldog runs past.

For God’s sake shoot, Sam

1917

Ink caricature of a donkey, a smiling man, a heavyset man in a sash, and a fallen elephant on a stage.

National Vandeville. The retiring elephant; I hope you’ll get more applause than I did

1913

Charcoal drawing of a hunched elderly man seated on rocks by the sea, with two uniformed men standing behind him.

Sam; Say, John, why not do the right thing by him

1917

Drawing of a donkey in a suit kneeling before a seated woman holding a 'Woman's Vote' cushion, with an elephant in the backgr

In maiden meditation, fancy-free

1920

Pen-and-ink cartoon of Uncle Sam leashing customs officials drawn as attack dogs, confronting a passenger with luggage.

Uncle Sam with U.S. Custom Officials depicted as attack dogs, confronting passengers as they disembark from a ship af…

1906

Charcoal drawing of an elephant kicking, a donkey slumped below, and an eagle in a top hat flying in over grassy ground.

You poor simps, get to-gethre and do something. I’m sick to death of both of you

1920