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| Title | What! Eggs 50 cents each? Fetch me a half dozen 'over'. My, but these farmers are getting rich! |
| Date of Original | 1919 |
| Creator | Baer, John Miller, 1886-1970
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| Creator Role | Artist
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| Description | Man seated a dining table in railroad dining car holding wine list speaking to waiter. Outside window of car is a farmer plowing in field. The farmer is saying 'I'd like to eat on one of them diners once!' |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | Politics & Government
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Political cartoons
Periodical illustrations
Railroad dining cars
Eating & drinking
Waiters
Farmers
Food prices
Food industry
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| Subject (LCSH) | African Americans
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| Location | United States
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| Decade | 1910-1919
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| Item Number | Photo Folio108.12 |
| Format of Original | Ink drawings
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| Dimensions of Original | 49 x 30 cm. |
| Transcription | "It has become the habit of city dwellers to blame the farmers for high prices. The old cry of 'the farmers are getting rich' has been nursed along by the profiteers as a fine smoke screen. As long as they were able to direct the attention of the public to the farmer while they were raising prices, they were able to continue doing so. The city workers, however, have had their eyes opened a bit, and some of them are seeing that most of the high prices they pay go into other pockets than the farmers'." - Caption text with published image in Nonpartisan Leader.
"Some of the consumers who do not handle farm products really think that the farmer gets the greater part of the dollar which they pay for foodstuffs. When eggs are 50 cents per doz. - you can figure just how much he gets." - Handwritten at bottom of ink drawing. |
| Notes | Title from cartoon.
Illus. in: Nonpartisan Leader, June 23, 1919, p. 10. |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | Nonpartisan Leader Cartoons Folio 108
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| Collection Finding Aid | Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/6983 |
| Credit Line | Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (Photo Folio 108.12) |
| Rights Management | In public domain. |
| Language | eng; |
| Digital ID | NPL00011 |
| Original Source | Ink drawing |
| Digital Alterations | Master scan made up of two scans stitched together. |
