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Title: [C. P. Huntington as an octopus]
Creator: Swinnerton, Jimmy, 1875-1974
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1999-0387
ART, ORIGINAL-VA-S: SWINNERTON
Drawing of C. P. Huntinton as an octopus holding various things in its tenticles including (left to right): paper with words "Honest vote", a man with "manufacturer" tag, man with a "farmer" tag, man with a "merchant" tag, man with an "orange raiser" tag, paper with words "subsidized press", Oakland [city hall], and San Francisco [city hall]; right tenticle injured, letters "Johnsons defeat".
Cartoon appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, December 14, 1896.
Negative, no. 6862.
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 drawing : ink ; 14 x 22 1/2 in. sheet
Identifier: (C)001378783CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2028
Subject: Huntington, Collis Potter,, 1821-1900,
Art
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Political cartoons
Drawings
Cartoons (Commentary)
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)

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