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Two Hundred Thousand Originals, and a Reading Room in Kent
The archive that preserved what newspapers threw away
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Four drawers, four countries, and about two hundred thousand sheets of paper
Where the originals ended up, who catalogues them, and what a reader can actually put on a table. Between four institutions they hold the artwork behind nearly everything on this site.
Archives · 3 pieces · the full archive
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Ohio State Keeps the American Record
The largest archive of cartoon art in the world has a reading room in Columbus, holding hundreds of thousands of original drawings. Read the plate
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What the Original Drawing Is Actually Worth
From Press Room to Auction Room Read the plateThe other sections
DraughtsmenThe people who did it, and what each of them is on record for.10 piecesPapersThe press was the publisher, and it set the deadline.4 piecesPrintingWax, copper, stone, boxwood, zinc, then a scanner.4 piecesPrizesThe Pulitzer since 1922, and the legal record before it.2 piecesGlossaryPunch called it a cartoon in 1843, and the word never went back.2 pieces