Cartoon of a wounded veteran whose service enriched government coffers
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)
Creator(s)
- George Yost Coffin (Cartoonist)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Archival History
The cartoon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Editorial cartoon, The Veteran, by George Yost Coffin, clipped from the Washington Chroncle, a 19th century US newspaper. It depicts a Civil War veteran, missing one leg, between stacks of US treasury bags filled with gold, titled "Because He Fought," next to a scene of a Jewish dealer offering to buy old paper labelled US bonds, titled "Had He Not Fought." This cartoon is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Cartoon cut from a newspaper. Under glass in worn stained grooved wooden frame; plywood back wrapped in treated paper red, white, blue stars and stripes, US flag. eye screw in frame side with piece of tied plastic twine.
People
- Coffin, George Yost, 1850-1896.
Subjects
- Antisemitism in art.
- Jewish peddlers--Caricatures and cartoons--United States--19th century.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--United States--19th century.
- Jews in art.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
- Antisemitism--United States--19th century--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Object
- Art