From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Legislature" is holding a book titled, "No-fat budget" under his arm and a pen in his hand. He is looking at a calendar on the wall and holding up some of its...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A dinosaur labeled, "Scientific creationism issue," breathes fire as it stands among cat tails and other vegetation. In the background is the Louisiana State Capitol. A person...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. Leonard Woodcock (United Auto Workers) and Henry Ford II (Ford Motor Company) stand in the wings of a proscenium stage. They are dressed as vaudevillians, complete with canes...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who delivers singing telegrams is dressed in a frayed and tattered uniform and a beanie cap. He is labeled "Recession." He holds a telegram in his hand and sings to a man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial clothing is standing on the deck of a steamship labeled "Port of New Orleans...Louisiana USA," and he is facing toward the rear. Nearby are the words,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A drug pusher in a car labeled, "Drug traffic," is about to nudge a young child labeled "Our youth" over a cliff. A long arm, labeled, "Beefing up of state's narcotic division,"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The Grim Reaper is pulling Mao Zedong in a taxi. The Grim Reaper is labeled, "Cultural Revolution."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A boat named, "Port of N.O. Louisiana U.S.A." is sinking. The bow is tilted up and the stern is under water. Five men on the deck are watching anxiously, and they are labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro sit at a theater dressing room mirror. Brezhnev holds a pot of grease paint and an applicator, and his face is covered with the paint which...
cartoon by John Riedell; A man holding a snow shovel stands in a snow drift labeled "Middle West" He shakes his fist at a menacing snow creature as big snowflakes fall around them both.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A man drives a car into a fog that reads, "Cloudy Programming-confusion-current Ratcliff controversy." A sign reads, "Your tax dollars at work. LA. State Highway Dept."
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Thomas Business Building dedication at William Carey College in 1975. Pictured at the dedication are President Ralph Noonkester, Ollie Thomas, John D. Thomas, and Jerry King, chairman...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A young boy is fishing from a pier. In the background is a building with a sign that reads "Jeff Parish." The cartoon caption reads, “With talk of a teacher strike, school...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A young man labeled "Impressionable youth" rests with chin on fist and appears contemplative. Above him is the large word, "Smut," and falling from above him are many pages and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A police officer dressed in an old-fashioned uniform (with bowler hat and handlebar moustache) is labeled, "Sunday blue laws." He wears a star on his coat. His eyes are cut...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a giant pig, a large man is relaxing in an arm chair smoking a cigar. His shirt reads, "Unfunded liability of retirement systems." Two men, one labeled, "Par" [PAR?], and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in business suits labeled "Commercial lenders" look at the signs of fast food shops that read "Ice cream 50 flavors...Kwicki-food...Burger beautiful." One man says to the other,...
