The Farmer's Daughter
Date1936
Artist
Henry Eugene Elderman
(American cartoonist, 1910–1963)
Illustration CitationWashington Post, Sept. 23, 1936
MediumCrayon on paper
Dimensionssheet: 16 × 12 7/16 in. (40.6 × 31.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-54
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextHenry Eugene Elderman was the editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post in the 1930s, a position he left to serve in World War II. He worked as a cartoonist for the Office of War Information's Victory magazine. After the war, he lived in New York until his death in 1963.This cartoon must have appeared during the run-up to the 1936 Presidential contest between Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Alf Landon. The candidates' competing supporters are trying to gain the vote of farmers.
Henry Patrick Raleigh
not dated
