Giant wolf walking down a street. Titled 'Unemployment Relief in St. Louis is 'woefully inadequate.'' by Daniel Fitzpatrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 15, 1935

WALL STREET AND MAIN STREET
EDITORIAL CARTOONS ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS OF THE 1930S

from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
by Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick

Capitol Building
Jefferson City

January 26, 2010

This exhibit from the collections of The State Historical Society of Missouri chronicles the history of the Great Depression through the cartoons of Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick (1891-1969) who commented on national, state, and local events in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1913 to 1958.

The original drawings in crayon, pen, brush, and ink will be exhibited with explanations that place each image in historical context. Fitzpatrick’s hard-hitting cartoons critiqued the policies of President Herbert Hoover, the elections and administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the New Deal, Missouri politics in the 1930s, and the associated human suffering caused by unemployment, hunger, and homelessness.

These Depression era cartoons are among the more than 1700 Fitzpatrick original cartoons in the Society’s nationally-renowned cartoon collection.