Cecil Jensen Papers, 1865-1971, bulk 1940-1971

Summary

Creator:

Jensen, Cecil, 1902-1976

Abstract:

Over 1200 original editorial cartoons drawn for the Chicago Daily News, correspondence, clippings of editorial cartoons and printed material including an item produced by the Sam Adams Committee of Public Safety

Extent:

11 linear ft.

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Cecil Jensen Papers,

Background

Scope and content:

The Cecil Jensen Papers are divided into three series.

Cartoons contains more than 1,200 original editorial cartoons drawn by Jensen for the Chicago Daily News. The cartoons are undated and arranged alphabetically by caption. (Cartoons do have months and days of the week listed, but lack years). Based on subject matter, the majority were likely drawn in the 1960s with some from the 1940s and the 1970s. Subject matter includes national and international politics as well as local issues related to the Chicago area.

Individual cartoons measure approximately 14 ½" x 16 ½" with some variations of about 1". Jensen worked in ink and crayon on illustration board; traces of pencil are visible. Captions and limited date information appear in pencil.

Correspondence (1961-1967) is comprised of incoming correspondence. Letters include requests and thank you notes for original cartoons as well as reprint permissions and feedback from readers. Included are letters from elected officials including Robert F. Kennedy (2 letters), Donald Rumsfeld and Charles Percy. Worth noting is the folder from Illinois State Senator Hudson R. Sours which contains several nineteenth century documents: a promissary note; 1865 document for property in Eureka, Illinois; and a 1869 mortgage for property in New York City near 3rd Avenue and 56th Street. Also of interest are enclosures related to the right to work law (14B of the Taft-Hartley Act).

Other letters were written by fellow cartoonists including Newton Pratt, Art Wood, Arthur Poinier, Bill Saunders, Eldon Pletcher and Mrs. Carey Orr Cook. Correspondence from Poinier includes the results of a survey conducted by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists of journalism schools and curriculum related to editorial cartooning.

The Printed Material (1938-1967) series includes clippings and miscellaneous material. The bulk of this series is clippings of Jensen's editorial cartoons with information about the date of publication. Also located in the series are clippings of work by other editorial cartoonists, namely John Fischetti, Dan Dowling and Arthur Poinier. Finally, of particular interest is a publication from the Sam Adams Committee of Public Safety. The booklet contains editorial cartoons (including work by Jensen) that have been altered to express white supremacist messages.

Biographical / historical:

Cecil Jensen (1902-1976) was an American editorial cartoonist.

Jensen was born in Ogden, Utah on January 17, 1902. After high school, Jensen studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Jensen moved to California and worked his way into editorial cartooning at the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News. In 1928, Jensen returned to Chicago as editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News where he spent the remainder of his career. Sigma Delta Chi recognized Jensen's work with an award in 1953.

Jensen also drew comic strips. During World War II, he caricatured Chicago Tribune publisher Colonel McCormick in Colonel McCosmic. Beginning in 1946 Jensen drew Elmo and Debbie (later transformed by the Register and Tribune Syndicate into Debbie or Little Debbie as it was commonly known).

Cecil Jensen died in May 1976.

Acquisition information:

Majority, gift of Cecil Jensen , 1964-1965, 1967-1968, 1972

Two cartoons ("You're just not built right to be a patriot" and "Termites"), gift of Joseph E. Geshwiler , 2008.

Seven World War II-related cartoons ("Anybody who deserts us is nuts," "Atlas", "The fugitive," "The gift horse," Holding that line," In democracy's corner," and "That's the trouble with cats"), gift of Arthur Vyse , 2014.

Arrangement:

Original artwork is arranged in alphabetical order by caption. Correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order by sender's last name. Clippings are arranged by year.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Names:

Places:

United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Indexes:

Index to cartoons

The following is a list of predominant people, places and subjects appearing in the editorial cartoons in this collection. The list is not exhaustive. Some subjects may require you to browse with alternative terms.

B= Box, For example: B1= Box 1

Adenauer, Konrad	B1B4B9
AFL-CIO	B6B10
Africa	B9-B10
Agnew, Spiro T.	B6B8
Agricultural Adjustment Administration	B1
airline industry	B9-B10
Alabama	B2B8
Albania	B3
Algeria	B1B3B7B10
Ali, Muhammad	B1B5
aliens	B11
aluminum industry	B4
American Indians	B9
American Medical Association	B2B11
Arkansas	B7
armed forces	B1-B4B7-B10
Asia	B1B9-B11
auto industry	B5-B9
automation	B1B6B8-B9
Baker, Bobby	B2B4-B6B8-B11
Ben Bella, Ahmed	B2
Berlin	B1B4-B6B9-B11
Berlin Wall	B6B8-B10
big business	B1B3-B4B6B10
Black Power	B1
boycotts	B5B10
Brazil	B3B8
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich	B11
Britain	B2-B7B9-B10
Buddhists	B10
budget	B1B3-B5B7-B8
Burch, Dean	B8
Byrd, Harry	B7
California	B3B7
Canada	B1B3B8
capitalism	B9-B10
Carpenter, Scott	B3
Castro, Fidel	B1-B5B7-B10
Central Intelligence Agency	B1-B2B7B8B10
Chicago	B1-B11
Chicago Seven	B7
China	B1-B11
civil defense	B2-B3B8
civil liberties	B7
civil rights	B2-B5B7-B11
Cold War	B1B3-B4B7-B8B10
college students	B2
colonialism	B1
communism	B1-B3B5-B11
Congo	B3B7
Congress	B1B3-B11
Congress of Racial Equality	B8-B10
Connally, John	B7
consumers	B1B7B9
corruption	B2B6B8
cost of living	B3-B4B7B11
credit	B7B8
crime	B1-B8B9-B11
criminals	B2-B3B8
Cuba	B1-B10
Cyprus	B5-B6
Daley, Richard J.	B1-B3B7-B9
de Gaulle, Charles	B1-B5B7-B11
debt	B1B9-B10
democracy	B1
Democratic Party	B1-B11
Diefenbaker, John	B4B8
Diem, Ngo Dinh	B3B11
Dirksen, Everett	B2B9
disarmament	B1B3-B4B7-B9
Dodd, Thomas J.	B9
Dominican Republic	B3-B4B7-B9
Douglas, William O.	B2-B3B8
draft	B3-B6B11
driving	B1B5-B6B8-B9
Duvalier, François	B6
economy	B1-B11
education	B1-B8B10-B11
Egypt	B1B4B9B11
Eisenhower, Dwight	B2B3B4
elections	B1B3B5-B10
En-lai, Chou	B3
espionage	B8
ethics	B2-B4B6B10
Europe	B1-B5B7-B8B11
farming	B1-B3B7-B9B11
Faubus, Orval	B7
federal aid	B1B7B11
Federal Bureau of Investigation	B6
Federal Communications Commission	B2
Federal Reserve	B4
Field, Marshall	B1
Florida	B4B8B10
food	B6B7B9
Ford, Gerald R.	B2
foreign aid bill	B1-B2B5B8-B9
foreign policy	B2-B4B6B8-B11
France	B1B3B5B7-B11
free press	B2-B3B10
Free Society Association	B7
freedom	B5B9B11
freedom of information	B10-B11
Freeman, Orville	B11
Fulbright, J. William	B1B6
gambling	B4
Geneva	B4B8-B9
Georgia	B5B6
Germany	B1-B2B4B9B11
Giancana, Sam	B8-B9
Glenn, John	B3B6
Glimco, Joseph	B9
gold prices	B10
Goldwater, Barry	B1-B10
government spending	B1-B4B7-B11
Great Depression	B4
Great Society	B5B7-B9B11
Greece	B3B6
Gromyko, Andrei	B6-B7B9
Guantanamo	B2B7
Guinea	B8
gun control	B3B7
Haiti	B6B10
healthcare	B1-B2B4-B5B8
Hess, Rudolf	B3
highway construction	B4B7B9
Ho Chi Minh	B1B3-B5B6B9
Hoffa, Jimmy	B3B5-B8B10
holidays	B2B4B6B9-B11
Honduras	B9
Hoover, Hebert	B2
housing	B2B4B6-B7B10
Humphrey, Hubert	B4B8-B9
Illinois	B1-B11
India	B2B6-B9
India-Pakistan War	B1-B2B4B7B9
Indonesia	B2-B4B6B9
industry (general)	B1B8
inflation	B2-B4B6-B10
insurance	B4-B5
integration	B4B8
Internal Revenue Service	B4B9
Interstate Commerce Commission	B7
Israel	B1B3-B4B9
Italy	B7
Japan	B2B10
jobs	B2B5-B6B8-B11
John Birch Society	B8
Johnson, Lady Bird	B4
Johnson, Lyndon Baines	B1-B11
Jordan	B4
journalism	B2B10
judicial system	B5
justice	B7-B8B10
Kefauver, Estes	B1-B2B4B7-B8
Kennedy, Caroline	B8B10
Kennedy, Jacqueline	B8
Kennedy, John F.	B1B3-B11
Kennedy, Robert F.	B1-B2B4-B9
Kennedy, Ted	B8B10
Kentucky	B3
Kerner Jr., Otto	B2B8-B9B11
Khrushchev, Nikita	B1-B11
King Jr., Martin Luther	B2
Korea	B2B7B8
Kosygin, Alexey	B3B9
Ku Klux Klan	B4B9-B10
Ky, Nguyen Cao	B1B5B9
labor	B1-B2B4-B11
Labor Day	B3
Laos	B1B3B5B11
Latin America	B1B4-B5B10-B11
law and order	B1B4-B5B8-B11
Lindsay, John	B10
living conditions	B2
Lodge, George C.	B10
Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot	B3B8
MacMillan, Harold	B2B7B9
Makarios III	B5
Malaysia	B9
Manila Summit Conference	B2-B3B6
Mantle, Mickey	B5
Massachusetts	B7B10
Malaysia	B2
McNamara, Robert	B2B6-B8
Meany, George	B3
Medicare	B2-B5B7-B9B11
Mexico	B7
Michigan	B1-B2B4B9B11
Middle East	B3-B4B6-B7B9
Mikoyan, Anastas	B4
Miller, Arthur	B8
Miller, William E.	B8
minimum wage	B1
Mississippi	B2-B3B10
Nasser, Gamal Abdel	B1B3B6-B11
National Collegiate Athletic Association	B10
nationalism	B1B8
NATO	B1B3B5-B6B10
nature conservation	B1-B2B4B7-B8
Nazi Germany	B1B3B4B9
Nehru, Jawaharlal	B1B7
Netherlands	B6
neutrality	B7B8B11
New Deal	B9
New Hampshire	B5-B6
New York	B1-B2B4-B5B7-B8B10
New York City	B1-B2B8
Nhu, Madame Ngo Dinh	B8-B9B11
Nixon, Richard M.	B1-B4B6-B10
Nkhrumah, Kwame	B8
nuclear weapons	B1-B5B7-B11
O'Brien, Larry	B6
oil	B9
Organization of American States	B1B3B7B10
organized crime	B4B6B8-B11
Pakistan	B2
Panama	B8
patriotism	B2
peace	B1-B3B4-B10
Pearson, Lester B.	B4
Pentagon	B6B9
Percy, Charles H.	B2-B3B9
Philippines	B1
police	B4-B5B7B9-B10
politicians	B3B8-B9
politics	B10
pollution	B1-B2 B4
population	B2
poverty	B2B4B6-B7B9-B10
Powell Jr., Adam Clayton	B1B3-B5B7-B10
Powell, Stanley M.	B9
prices	B2-B3B5-B9
prisoners of war	B1 B7B9-B10
Profumo, John	B2B4
prosperity	B1B6-B11
public opinion	B1-B6B8-B10
Puerto Rico	B9
race relations	B1-B2B10
racism	B1-B2B4-B6B9
railroad industry	B2-B10
recession	B8-B9
religion	B7
Republican Party	B1-B10
Reuther, Walter	B3
riots	B1-B2
Rockefeller, David	B4
Rockefeller, Nelson	B1B4B6-B7B10
Romania	B3
Romney, George W.	B1
Rusk, Dean	B2B8
Russia	B1-B2B5B7B9-B10
school dropouts	B6
schools	B4B7-B11
science	B3B9
Scranton, William	B2-B3B6-B9
segregation	B1
Singapore	B2
social security	B2-B3B8-B9
socialized medicine	B2B8
soil and water management	B2
South America	B7
Soviet Union	B1-B11
space exploration	B1-B3B6-B10
sports	B1-B3B5-B6B8-B11
Stalin, Joseph	B6
Stassen, Harold	B2
steel industry	B1-B2B4-B5B7B9-B11
Stevenson, Adlai E.	B4
stock market	B1-B4B6-B8B10
strikes	B1B3B5B7-B10
Sukarno	B2-B4B6B8B11
Supreme Court	B4
Syria	B4
tariffs	B1-B3B6-B7
taxes	B1-B11
Taylor, Maxwell	B3
teachers	B4B8
Teamsters	B7-B9
television	B5B9
terrorism	B1
Texas	B9
Thailand	B7
Thieu, Nguyen Van	B1
Thurmond, Strom	B2
Tito, Josip Broz	B2B8-B9
Toure, Ahmed Sekou	B8
tourism	B1
trade	B1-B3B6-B8
transit and transportation	B6-B8B10
Tshombe, Moise	B7
Turkey	B6
U.S. Dollar	B5B10
U.S. Senate	B1-B5B8-B10
Ulbricht, Walter	B4B10-B11
unemployment	B1B3-B4B8-B9
unions	B3B5-B11
United Auto Workers	B6
United Nations	B1B3-B11
urban problems	B10
urban renewal	B4B7-B9
Venezuela	B3
Vietnam	B1-B11
Vietnam War	B1-B7B9-B10
voting	B1-B3B5-B11
voting rights	B7B10
wage and price controls	B3-B4B7-B9
Wallace, George	B1B3-B5B7-B8B10
war	B1B4B8-B11
War on Poverty	B1-B5B7-B9
water safety	B2
weapons	B2-B3B8-B9
weather	B3-B5B9-B11
Weaver, Robert C.	B9
welfare	B3B6-B7B10
white supremacy	B1B4-B5B10
White, Byron	B2
Wilson, Harold	B1-B3
Yugoslavia	B9
Zedong, Mao	B1-B3B6-B11

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Cecil Jensen Papers,

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