October Feature: Political Cartoons
A collection of 2,400 original pen-and-ink drawings by Clifford K. Berryman is housed at the Center for Legislative Archives. Berryman was Washington's best known and most-admired graphic commentator on politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Berryman’s cartoons were originally published as illustrations for the front page of the Washington Post and the Washington Evening Star at various dates from the late 1880s to 1949.
For more than 50 years, Berryman’s cartoons engaged readers of Washington’s newspapers, illustrating everyday political events as they related to larger issues of civic life.
