JM-078: Three scenes of Uncle Sam excluding immigrants

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Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes in three different panels. In the top panel, Uncle Sam stands in a garden of Americanism surrounded by crows labeled "Unassimilable Asiatic Immigration" and "Undesirable European Immigration." In the middle panel, Uncle Sam is putting up two signs along the coast: "Exclusion of Chinese" and "Exclusion of Japanese Immigrants" while a figure representing Japan, a country who also has exclusion signs for China and Korea, watches. In the third panel, the same figure from Japan gestures with an angry face and Japanese Emigrants behind him, while Uncle Sam proudly shows off a sign welcoming only particular groups of Japanese people: tourists, students, scientists, etc.

JM-086: The captain and crew of the William P. Frye, which--

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Editorial cartoon depicting a ship labeled the "William P. Frye" being sunk by a ship labeled the "Prinz Eitel Friederich." In the next panel, the crew of the Frye waves the Friederich ship on as it sails to open sea. British cruisers can be seen near the horizon line on the water. The William P. Frye was an American merchant vessel sunk in 1915 after encountering a German ship.

JM-112: The "Ayes" Had It

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Editorial cartoon depicting the New York Republican Convention on September 25-26 of 1906. Benjamin B. Odell Jr. favored ex-Governor Frank S. Black for re-election and Frank W. Higgins, the Governor at the time, favored Lt. Governor Matthew Bruce, but after the intervention of President Roosevelt the convention nominated Charles E. Hughes for Governor instead.