Still Image

A static visual representation.
Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Instances of the type Still Image must also be describable as instances of the broader type Image.

JM-028: "Call Judge Landis!"

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Editorial cartoon depicting six scenes of people in difficult situations calling for Judge Landis. In the first panel, Organized Baseball is lying in a hospital bed and onlookers call outside the frame for someone to send for Judge Landis. In the second panel, locksmiths having difficulty with a Building Deadlock call for Judge Landis. In the third panel, a figure labeled "Stocks" tells Wall Street that he isn't feeling well and asks for Judge Landis. In the fourth panel, the 18th Amendment claims to have too many doctors and calls for Judge Landis. In the fifth panel, the Grain Exchanges flinch away from the painful dentistry of Farmers and ask for Judge Landis. In the last panel, two men are gearing up for a fight and wonder if they should call Judge Landis. Landis is the same judge referred to in JM-213: https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A419248 .

JM-085: The war department - "Great scott, that dispatch must mean ladrones instead of insurgents. There are no insurgents out there."

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Editorial cartoon depicting a military man confused by the wording of a special dispatch about fighting in Manila. Three pictures hang on the wall behind him distinguishing the perceived differences between an "Amigo," an "Insurgent," and a "Ladrone." The special dispatch claimed that the fighting was started by "Insurgents" instead of the "Ladrones" classification the man remarks that the report must have meant.

JM-C010: The changing world: Books that caused fear now and then

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Editorial cartoon consisting of two scenes. In the first scene, a Victorian woman is recoils from a "Ouida" book presented to her by a man. In the second scene, a woman in 1920s attire shows a sweating man a book titled "Sex Problem". "Ouida" was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé, who was known for her literary salon and the scandalous books she published toward the beginning of her career.

JM-203: Big Bills

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Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes showing the reparations against Germany preventing the country from holding civilization again, the crime wave hitting Chicago even when one man believes he has ended it, and the G.O.P. elephant looking for a candidate but finding Taft being friendly with Wilson.

JM-094: At the office of the Harriman Rex Railroads

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Editorial cartoon depicting three panels showing the office of the Harriman Rex Railroads. In the first panel, a newcomer enters the office and speaks to Harriman. In the next panel, Harriman and the other men in the office throw up their hands and smile at the new man, who is established in the office with his own desk in the last panel. E.H. Harriman was known for his prowess as a railroad executive and especially for being the "savior" of failing railroads, including the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad.

JM-012: Some idle thoughts on the law

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Editorial cartoon depicting six unrelated panels. In the top one, a judge and his staff each point at the person smaller than they are as the person responsible for the leak. In the next panel, Theodore Roosevelt is shown saying he has nothing to say that is fit for publication. In the panel next to him, a large man points to his hand, titled "subsidiary committee" as to the place the blame should go to. In the next panel, a man is being charged $5 under "Anglo-Saxon Law for Chicken Embezzlement". the next panel shows a man, representing a corporation, sitting in a jail cell with his hand hanging outside the bars so only part of the corporation is being punished. The last, bottom panel shows a man on a cart pulled by a donkey waiting for a large train to travel past him.