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Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description: Top left: Knecht slumps on his drawing table which is covered with a letter to his editor discussing his promise not to do any cartoons on the weather during the war. Top right: Our Public asks Knecht to do a cartoon about the weather because the weather has usually changed by the time his cartoons are printed. Bottom: A cartoon showing the Weather Man on top of a weather station; two men stick their tongues out at him and say that they have their own thermometers. Next to the cartoon, two men ask Nelson and Henderson how about some on weather?.
Henderson, Leon, 1895-1986; Knecht, Karl Kae, 1883-1972; Nelson, Donald Marr, 1888-1959
Image Access WideTEK 25
Dear Editor, I know we said no weather cartune during the duration --But--Go on make one on the weather--you know, when it is printed the weather is usually the opposite of what you draw it as being. Our Public. Runt humans. Ba! We have our own thermometers. U.S. Weather. Honk, honk. US 41. So--. Snow. Mountains. Lake. Priorities. Nelson. Rationing. Henderson. How about some on weather?
Origin: 2014
Created By: Karl Kae Knecht
Source: http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/2419
Collection: Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects: Weather
Home Front
Economy
Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States
World War, 1939-1945

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