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BURRIS JENKINS, JR. Group of 4 cartoons treating issues relating to New York City including taxation, voting, youth. Published in The New York Journal (later Journal-American) in the 1940s and 1950s. Graphite, chalk, wash, and ink on paper. Images measure 216x235 mm; 8 1/2x9 1/4 inches, on sheets measuring roughly 11x12 inches. All signed and captioned on rectos.
"No Easy Solution" (on teen crime rate) "But What About Bathing Beaches and Country Clubs?" (on pleasing Westchester County) "Let `Em Eat Horse Meat!" (on New Deal O.P.A.--Office of Price Administration) "Do You Mean to Say You Actually Have a VOTE In Your Gov't-But You're Not Going to Bother to USE It?!" (on citizens' complacency).
