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political cartoon: Theodore Roosevelt
political cartoon: William Pitt, the Younger
political cartoon: siege of Paris
Antisemitic caricature
anti-tariff cartoon
"Declaration of Independence"
immigration debate
U.S.–German conflict over naval rights in Samoa
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) and Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Townshend Acts
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Thomas Nast
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Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
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George Cruikshank
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Sir David Low
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