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TITLE:  "We're really making great progress" / Herblock.

CALL NUMBER:  BLOCK, no. 8566 (BB size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-17211 (digital file from original drawing)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  Publication may be restricted. For information see "Herbert Block ("Herblock") Rights and Restrictions," (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/271_herb.html)

SUMMARY:  Editorial cartoon shows President Gerald Ford and John Q. Public in a picnic basket labeled "The Economy" racing down a steep hill toward flames and devil's forks in hell.

MEDIUM:  1 drawing : graphite and ink brush with opaque white over blue pencil and graphite underdrawing ; 56.3 x 35.5 cm (sheet)

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1974 November 1.

CREATOR:

Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist.

NOTES:

Title from item.

Signed "Herblock" lower right.

Copyright, 1974, by Herblock.

Forms part of: Herbert L. Block Collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibited in: "Herblock's Presidents : Puncturing Pomposity" at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2008.

SUBJECTS:

Ford, Gerald R.,--1913-2006.
John Q. Public (Symbolic character)--1970-1980.
Economic & social conditions--1970-1980.
Picnic baskets--1970-1980.
Hell--1970-1980.
Presidents--United States--1970-1980.

FORMAT:

Editorial cartoons 1970-1980.
Drawings 1970-1980.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original drawing) ppmsca 17211 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.17211

CONTROL #:  2008676755

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