Just My Blamed Luck!
date: label: date made
content: ca 1912
name: label: depicted person
content: Roosevelt, Theodore
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Clark, Champ
label: maker
content: Berryman, Clifford
notes: label: Description
content: Champ Clark was a prominent Democratic politician from Missouri from the 1890s till his death in 1921, and was the frontrunner candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 1912 Presidential campaign. His interests lay with agriculture in the Midwest and South, which could explain his depiction with a typical tool of farming. The presence of the African American male could represent racial conflict for Clark, perhaps in a wish that he could ignore the issue of race that was ever present in the context of agriculture at the time, especially in the South. Roosevelt was more aligned with concerns of the East such as regulation of big business, and was not known to be particiularly sympathetic toward the concerns of African Americans. This interpretation could also explain Clark's words "Just My Blamed Luck."
label: Description
content: Despite Clark's anticipated victory at becoming the Democratic nominee, he lost to Woodrow Wilson.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: classified
content: Political Campaigns
label: Subject
content: Political Conventions
label: depicted
content: Blacks
label: web subject
content: African American
label: related event
content: Presidential Campaign of 1912
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miss Florence S Berryman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.322733.022
label: catalog number
content: 322733.022
label: accession number
content: 322733
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cartoon
label: Object Name
content: political cartoon
label: Object Type
content: cartoons
label: Object Type
content: editorial cartoons
label: Object Type
content: Drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hand-drawn (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 14 1/8 in; 38.1 cm x 35.87826 cm