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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?


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



Captain William Bainbridge

1774 – 1833

(Image: John Wesley Jarvis, c.

1814)



Captain Isaac Hull

1773-1843

(Image: Polyanthos, 1814)

Courtesy of the University of Texas at Austin

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