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!["The trouble with [pub- "wit"] Coolidge is he don't {pub - "seem to"] read the editorials."](/internal/media/dispatcher/14930/preview)
"The trouble with [pub- "wit"] Coolidge is he don't {pub - "seem to"] read the editorials."
Artist
Alan Dunn
(American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1927
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 6 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (15.9 × 18.6 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (15.9 × 18.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1694
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