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Calvin Coolidge Declines to Run, by Cy Hungerford

DescriptionEnglish: “Through Fishin’?” Editorial cartoon by Cy Hungerford in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, referring to Calvin Coolidge’s decision not to run for a third term as president, which he announced in a very short statement: “I do not choose to run for President in 1928.”
Date1927
SourcePittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 5, 1927 (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19270805&printsec=frontpage&hl=en)
AuthorCy Hungerford

The image was taken from an archival microfilm, cleaned up a bit, and converted to SVG by bitmap tracing in Inkscape.

Baiting-Up, by Maud Hunt Squire

DescriptionEnglish: “Baiting Up,” a wood-block print by Maud Hunt Squire. “At the left is a wood block, ‘Baiting-Up,’ by Maud Squires, characteristic of the picturesque old waterfront of Provincetown.”
Date1921
SourceShadowland (https://archive.org/details/Shadowland0504Images/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorMaud Hunt Squire