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"If winter comes, the coal is far behind!"
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
|---|---|
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Description | Cartoon shows Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (labeled "Old Curmudgeon") as Aesop trying to get the attention of a grasshopper, who is playing a piece entitled "In the Good Old Summertime" on a violin. The caption is a play on a line from a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" Using the motif of Aesop's fable about the grasshopper who fiddled the summer away instead of preparing for winter, the cartoon comments on the efforts of Ickes to persuade President Roosevelt to settle the coal strike which was threatening to cripple the war effort in 1943. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Cartoon Drawings |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Shelley, Percy Bysshe,--1792-1822. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Aesop. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Grasshoppers--1940-1950. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Ickes, Harold L.--(Harold LeClair),--1874-1952. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Miners' strikes--United States--1940-1950. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
