Description: Cartoons by Billy Ireland, a long-time editor of "the Passing Show" page of the Columbus Dispatch. These cartoons refer to recommended restrictions on wheat and other supplies due to wartime shortages during World War I. America, characterized as Uncle Sam, is seen embracing cornbread as an alternative to traditional wheat bread. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_146
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women -- Charities; Rationing; Cartoonists; World War, 1914-1918--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: "The Tail End of the Republican Presidential Procession" cartoon depicting Benjamin Harrison, drawn by Frederick Opper and published in Puck Magazine, August 22, 1888. The cartoon shows Harrison parading as "The Greatest Living Statesman," and carrying "Free whiskey for the promotion of Temperance and morality." Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04091
Subjects: Presidents--Election; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Cartoonists; Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
 

Description: Cartoonist Billy Ireland drew this self-caricature, which was from "Accountants Reports and Exhibits," a publication of the American Association of Public Accountants for a meeting held in St. Paul, Minnesota, in October 1907. Ireland portrays himself as an impish figure wearing a plaid suit and a bowler hat, smoking a cigar, and having a pencil tucked behind his left ear. He's carrying a large bottle of ink in his right hand, a briefcase in the other hand, and a large cartoon tucked under his left arm. The briefcase bears a sign that reads: "'Billie Ireland' Official Cartoonist of 'The Ohio Society' 'Meet Me in St. Paul.'" A sign labeled "To St. Paul" is posted next to the railroad tracks down which Ireland is walking. William Addison "Billy" Ireland was born in 1880 in Chillicothe, Ohio. A self-taught artist, Ireland was hired after high school graduation by the "Columbus Dispatch" and spent his entire career with that newspaper until his death on May 29, 1935. Ireland drew editorial cartoons, but he is best known for "The Passing Show," a full-page cartoon strip published in the Sunday edition of the "Dispatch." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05768
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Cartoons (Commentary)--1900-1910; Cartoonists; Ireland, Billy, 1880-1935
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a black-and-white reproduction of "The Crown Prince," a political cartoon that graced the cover of "Puck" magazine (v. 60, no. 1535, August 1, 1906). The original illustration, in vibrant color, shows President Theodore Roosevelt (1831-1878) garbed in royal robes and holding on his left shoulder a chubby, pint-sized William Howard Taft (1857-1930) of Ohio, his political "heir apparent." Taft wears a tiny crown and a medallion emblazoned with his last name. According to the Library of Congress, the “throng in the background includes Charles W. Fairbanks, Leslie M. Shaw, Thomas C. Platt, and Joseph G. Cannon.” The artist, Udo J. Keppler (1872-1956), was the son of Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1838-1894), an Austrian-born cartoonist who emigrated to the United States in 1867. The elder Keppler and a partner, Adolph Schwarzmann, founded “Puck Magazine” in 1871 as a German-language weekly published in St. Louis, Missouri. The magazine soon failed, but in 1876 Keppler and Schwarzmann resurrected “Puck” in New York City as a German-language weekly. A year later they began publishing an English-language edition, whose circulation slowly increased until it reached 80,000 copies per week by the 1880s. Udo Keppler, also a talented cartoonist, joined the staff of “Puck” in 1891, three years before his father died. In honor of his father, the son changed his name to Joseph Keppler, Jr. The biting caricatures in “Puck” skewered many politicians, institutions, and social movements. Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, James Blaine, Joseph Pulitzer, Pope Leo XIII and the Catholic Church, Tammany Hall, and woman suffrage were just a few of its targets. Udo Keppler became interested in Native American causes and remained an activist until his death. In 1899 the Seneca tribe made him an honorary chief. William Randolph Heart purchased “Puck” in 1917, but his efforts to increase circulation failed. It ceased publication in 1918. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05830
Subjects: Cartoons (Commentary)--1900-1910; Political cartoons; Periodical illustration; Cartoonists; Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930; Magazine covers; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1831-1878; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: A cartoon titled "We'll Get That Bear Yet!" by William A. "Billy" Ireland that appeared in the Columbus Dispatch, on p. 5 of The Ohio State University Monthly, vol. 12, no. 5, February 1921. The cartoon depicts the Ohio Stadium as a bear trap, with the character of Christopher Columbus (a common depiction of the capital city in Ireland's work) saying to a character labeled "The Football Team," "One of these days we'll try to coax him to step into this!" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05127
Subjects: Sports; Ireland, Billy, 1880-1935; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Ohio State University--Football.; Cartoonists; Ohio State Buckeyes (Football team)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caricature of James A. Garfield titled "From the Tow-Path to the White House." This piece of political memorabilia features one of Garfield's campaign slogans from the 1880 presidential campaign. Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States, and was born on November 19, 1831, in Orange, Ohio. His father died in 1833, and James spent most of his youth working on a farm to care for his widowed mother. At the age of seventeen, Garfield took a job steering boats on the Ohio and Erie Canal--the origin of the campaign slogan. After winning election to the Ohio Senate as a member of the Republican Party in 1859, Garfield joined the Union army at the outset of the Civil War and attained the rank of major general before resigning in 1863 to serve nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives. He was elected president in 1880, but served only four months before being assassinated. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04239
Subjects: Cartoonists; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Political cartoons; Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
Places: Ohio; Washington D.C.
 

Description: Cartoonist Billy Ireland at his desk at the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1930. Ireland entertained readers with his full page, color comic strip "The Passing Show," which ran in the Sunday edition of the newspaper from 1908 to 1935. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01773
Subjects: Ireland, Billy, 1880-1935; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Cartoonists; Newspapers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cartoonist Billy Ireland looking out the window from his office at the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1930. Ireland entertained readers with his full page, color comic strip "The Passing Show," which ran in the Sunday edition of the newspaper from 1908 to 1935. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01774
Subjects: Ireland, Billy, 1880-1935; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Cartoonists; Newspapers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);