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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1961

Cartoons and caricatures from presidential elections display the spirit of the times, depicting major issues and concerns that shaped American history.

View a wide selection of presidential election cartoons from 1789 to 1976 at Presidential Campaigns: A Cartoon History, a Web site that also features information about the candidates, a bibliography, and links to contemporary cartoonists.

Slides of the images were originally collected in 1976 to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial, and are now preserved in digital form in DIDO: Digital Images Delivered Online.