huzza for context! · graeme mackay, the hamilton spectator . war of 1812 re-enactment graeme...

Oriana Duinker

&

Kristie Nairn

University of Toronto

Huzza for Context! Interpreting 19th Century Cartoons

for a 21st Century Audience

WHO Museum Studies

Program (University of Toronto)

and the Ontario Heritage Trust

WHAT Exhibit of 23 cartoon

reproductions

WHEN Exhibit ran April 2 to

September 2, 2014

WHERE Parliament

Interpretive Centre, Toronto

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

Huzza for Freedom! Political Cartoons from the War of 1812

Why political cartoons?

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

A challenging source!

Images courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-DIG-ppmsca-31112; LC-DIG-ppmsca-10754; LC-USZC4-8094), the American Antiquarian

Society, and the Lily Library (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)

Huzza for Free Trade and Sailor's Rights Anonymous, c. 1813

American Antiquarian Society

Huzza for Free Trade and Sailor's Rights Anonymous, c. 1813

American Antiquarian Society

Huzza for Free Trade and Sailor's Rights Anonymous, c. 1813

American Antiquarian Society

Huzza for Free Trade and Sailor's Rights Anonymous, c. 1813

American Antiquarian Society

Captain William Bainbridge

1774 – 1833

(Image: John Wesley Jarvis, c.

1814)

Huzza for Free Trade and Sailor's Rights Anonymous, c. 1813

American Antiquarian Society

Captain Isaac Hull

1773-1843

(Image: Polyanthos, 1814)

Courtesy of the University of Texas at Austin

A new lens

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

A New Lens

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

A New Lens

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

Context Through Modern Cartoons

War of 1812 re-enactment Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator

War of 1812 re-enactment Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator

War of 1812 re-enactment Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

Political Cartoons: A Fascinating Source

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

Political Cartoons: A Fascinating Source

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014

Political Cartoons: A Fascinating Source

Photo: Kyle Miller, 2014