Daniel R. Fitzpatrick (1891-1969), Papers, 1913-1966 (C3832)
1 linear foot and 16 reels of 16mm film
INTRODUCTION
The Fitzpatrick Papers contain the personal and business correspondence of D.R. Fitzpatrick, editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The collection also contains magazines and newspaper articles concerning "Fitz's" cartoons of local, regional, and national politics, including government propaganda for both World Wars. Sixteen one-half hour television documentaries on political affairs, entitled Forty-five Years with Fitzpatrick are included in the collection.
DONOR INFORMATION
The papers were donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by Fitzpatrick on 26 August 1963 (SHS Accession No. 229) Fitzpatrick made additions to the papers on 11 March 1964 and 13 January 1967.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Born in Superior, Wisconsin, in 1891, Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick studied anatomy and life drawing for two years at the Art Institute of Chicago before getting his first cartooning job at the Chicago Daily-News in 1911. Two years later he moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he remained until his retirement in 1958. Universally acknowledged as the dean of editorial cartoonists, "Fitz" strongly supported the rights of the underdog while attacking the conservative "establishment." With cartoons on equal rights for women and blacks, a clean environment, and concern for the militarization of America's post-World War foreign policies, he gained the admiration and respect of scholars, journalists, and statesmen the world over.
Twice he won the Pulitzer Prize in cartooning--in 1926 for a cartoon lampooning America's preoccupation with prohibitive laws, and again in 1954 for a cartoon forewarning America's involvement in Indochina. Aware of his contribution to the recording of twentieth-century history, Fitzpatrick donated nearly 1500 original drawings to the State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia. He died on 18 May 1969.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Originally edited by Fitzpatrick himself, this collection contains only praise of the cartoonist and his work, with no detractions or criticism. Arranged by subject, the collection centers on correspondence between the years 1918 to 1948, consisting mainly of requests and "thank you" letters for original cartoons. Recipients of "Fitz" originals included Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, William Jennings Bryan, Carl Sandburg, and Senators Robert LaFollette Jr. and Stuart Symington.
Extensive correspondence dealing with both World Wars details propaganda and morale campaigns employed by U.S. government forces to muster support for Allied causes and instill national pride. Many of these letters concern special cartoon exhibits that travelled between military bases for instructional purposes.
Letters and invoices exist for several Fitzpatrick gallery and museum shows, including a 1937 Soviet show sponsored by the U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, a 1939 University of Missouri-Stephens College show, and a summer 1947 exhibit at St. Louis' Carroll-Knight Gallery.
One folder contains notes and Post-Dispatch photographs of the "Rat Alley" court case, in which the Post-Dispatch, Fitzpatrick, and Ralph Coghlan, editor of the Post-Dispatch editorial page, were fined and sentenced to jail for contempt of court. Considered a major freedom-of-the-press case, the charges resulted from two editorials and one cartoon published by the Post-Dispatch criticizing the courts in a local racketeering trial in 1940.
A 1959 National Educational Television documentary series on Fitzpatrick and the world he drew consists of sixteen one-half hour shows. In-studio discussions with the cartoonist and various political experts, illustrated by newsreel footage and over 800 Fitzpatrick cartoons, provide insight into the men and events that shaped the twentieth century. Included are discussions of Hitler's rise to power, crime, political elections, the New Deal, the American labor movement, and America's ascendancy to world leadership.
FOLDER LIST
| f. 1-9a | Miscellaneous Business Correspondence |
| f. 1 | 1914-1918 |
| f. 2 | 1923-1926 |
| f. 3 | 1931-1939 |
| f. 4 | 1940-1946 |
| f. 5 | 1947-1948 |
| f. 6 | 1946, Encyclopedia Britannica |
| f. 7 | 1926, Pulitzer Prize |
| f. 8 | 1928, Harmon Award |
| f. 9 | 1938-1941, "Rat Alley" |
| f. 9a | 1940, "Rat Alley", photographs of court trial |
| f. 10-13 | World War I, 1916-1919 |
| f. 10 | 1916-1917 |
| f. 11 | 1918, 11 January-7 August. Liberty Loan Drives 2 and 3 |
| f. 12 | 1918, 9 August-26 December. Liberty Loan Drive 4 |
| f. 13 | 1919 |
| f. 14-18 | World War II, 1933-1945 |
| f. 14 | 1933-1942 |
| f. 15 | 1943 |
| f. 16 | 1944 |
| f. 17 | 1945 January-June 16 |
| f. 18 | 1945 June 18-October |
| f. 19-24 | Book--Cartoons by Fitzpatrick |
| f. 19 | 1945 November-1948. Inquiries into possible book deals, reviews |
| f. 20-24 | 1947-1948. Thank you notes from book recipients |
| f. 25-38 | Requests for cartoons |
| f. 25-28 | 1914-1934 |
| f. 29 | 1935 March. On the death of Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| f. 30 | 1935 April-1936 December |
| f. 31 | 1937-1940 Soviet art show |
| f. 32-38 | 1938-1948 |
| f. 39-48 | Personal correspondence |
| f. 39 | 1913-1918 |
| f. 40 | 1922-1926 |
| f. 41 | 1930-1936 |
| f. 42 | 1937 February 11. Letters from fifth grade class at St. Louis Community School |
| f. 43-47 | 1937-1948 |
| f. 48 | 1965-1966. Illustrated letters to and from a friend in Brazil |
| f. 49-54 | Miscellaneous |
| f. 49 | 1939-1946. Exhibitions at University of Missouri; Stephens College, Columbia; and Allied Artists Association galleries, New York |
| f. 50 | 1947. Exhibition at St. Louis' Carroll-Knight Gallery. |
| f. 51 | Magazines, 1914-1946 |
| f. 52 | Newspaper clippings, 1916-1948 |
| f. 53 | 1948. National Conference of Editorial Writers |
| f. 54 | Fitzpatrick's own item-by-item inventory of this collections, including list of show titles and guests for Forty-five Years with Fitzpatrick |
| reels 1-16 | Forty-five Years With Fitzpatrick |
| r. 1 | Preview |
| r. 2 | Prohibition and the Gangster Heritage |
| r. 3 | Age of Hysteria |
| r. 4 | The American Labor Movement |
| r. 5 | Boom and Bust |
| r. 6 | The New Deal |
| r. 7 | The Mad Years of Hitler |
| r. 8 | America Comes of Age, Part I (World War I through World War II) |
| r. 9 | America Comes of Age, Part II (The Cold War) |
| r. 10 | Rat Alley |
| r. 11 | The American City |
| r. 12 | The Korean War |
| r. 13 | Ethics In Government |
| r. 14 | The Defense of the Underdog |
| r. 15 | The Road to the Presidency |
| r. 16 | The Cartoonist at Work |
INDEX TERMS
These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.
- "Cartoons," Ten Eventful Years, 1937-1946
- Age of Hysteria
- America Comes of Age
- American Federation of Labor
- American Jewish Relief Committee
- American Red Cross
- Anti-communist movements
- Army Air Forces Central Instructors School, Texas
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Art--Galleries and museums
- Augusta Chronicle, Georgia
- Awards--Literary
- Big Springs Army Air Field, Texas
- Black, Hugo LaFayette
- Blacks--Attitudes toward
- Bonds, Liberty
- Boom and Bust
- Bryan, William Jennings
- Camp Polk, Louisiana
- Camp Sibert, Alabama
- Carroll-Knight Gallery, Inc.
- Cartoons and caricatures
- Cartoons by Fitzpatrick
- Censorship, Newspaper
- Central News Agency of China
- City Art Museum of St. Louis, MO
- Clark, Thomas Campbell
- Cleveland News, Ohio
- Coghlan, Ralph
- Collier's
- Columbia University, New York, New York
- Committee on Public Information
- Courier Journal, Louisville, Kentucky
- Davies, Joseph E.
- Douglas County Historical Society, Wisconsin
- Douglas, William O.
- Durus, Alfred
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Ethics In Government
- Fitzpatrick, Daniel Robert (1891-1969)
- Fort Leonard Wood, MO
- Forty-five Years with Fitzpatrick
- Frankfurter, Felix (1882-1965)
- Freedom of the press & fair trial
- Gibson, Charles Dana (1867-1944)
- Gompers, Samuel (1850-1924)
- Gridiron Club
- Harmon Foundation
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Fogg Museum of Art
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Neiman Foundation for Journalism
- Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
- Henry Holt & Company
- History--Societies--Missouri
- History--Societies--Pennsylvania
- History--Societies--Wisconsin
- Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
- Hobbs Army Air Field, NM
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
- Hulen, Rubey M. (1894-1956)
- Hunter Field, Georgia
- Internal Revenue Bureau
- Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
- Journalism, Editorial
- Kingman Army Air Field, Arizona
- La Follette, Robert M. , J. (1895-1953)
- Labor unions--United States
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-1974)
- Lindsay Drummond Limited
- Long, Huey P. (1893-1935)
- Louisville Times, Kentucky
- Lowe, David
- Lu, David
- Malden Army Air Field, Missouri
- McCutcheon, John T.
- Medical care
- Mexico Ledger, Missouri
- Military training camps
- Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
- Missouri, Supreme Court
- Missouri. Governor
- Moscow Union of Soviet Artists
- Motion picture cartoons
- Motion pictures
- National Committee for Patriotic Societies, Bureau of Cartoon Publicity
- National Conference of Editorial Writers
- National Defense Conference of Mayors & Mayors' Committees
- National War Savings Committee
- Naval Air Technical Training Command, Chicago
- Nelson, William L. (1875-1946)
- New York Sun
- New York World
- New Yorker
- New Zealand, Wanganui
- Newspapers
- Oregon Development League
- Oxford University Press
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Presidents, U.S., Election
- Progressive
- Prohibition
- Prohibition & the Gangster Heritage
- Publishers & publishing
- Pulitzer, Joseph (1847-1911)
- Pulitzer, Joseph III (1913- )
- Pulitzer, Joseph, Jr. (1885-1955)
- Racketeering
- Randolph Field, Texas
- Rat Alley
- Reedy's Mirror
- Register & Tribune Syndicate
- Robinson, Boardman
- Ross, Charlie G. (1885-1950)
- Salvation Army
- Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
- Scarlett, William (1883-1973)
- Social problems
- Soviet Union, Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
- St. Louis Charities
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- St. Louis, Galleries & Museums
- State Historical Society of Missouri
- State of Tennessee vs. Scopes
- Symington, Stuart (1901-1988)
- Television, National Educational Television & Radio Center
- The American City
- The American Labor Movement
- The Cartoonist at Work
- The Defense of the Underdog
- The Korean War, 1950-1953
- The Mad Years of Hitler
- The New Deal
- The Road to the Presidency
- Thomas H. Ince Studios, Inc.
- Time and Tide
- Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)
- U. S. Army Air Forces, Medical Corps
- U.S. Armed Forces
- U.S. Army Air Forces
- U.S. Army, Officers
- U.S. Congress, House, Appropriations Committee
- U.S. Congress, House, Military Affairs Committee
- U.S. Congress, Senate, Banking and Finance Committee
- U.S. Congress, Senate, Finance Committee
- U.S. Congress, Senate, Interstate Commerce Committee
- U.S. Congress, Senate, Labor and Public Welfare Committee
- U.S. Congress, Senate, Manufacturers Committee
- U.S. Congress, Senate, Naval Affairs Committee
- U.S. Congress, Senate, Printing Committee
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Department of War, Bureau of Public Relations
- U.S. Food Administration
- U.S. Foreign relations
- U.S. Fuel Administration
- U.S. History, 1919-1933
- U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
- U.S. Navy, Insignia
- U.S. Secretary of State
- University of Missouri, School of Journalism
- Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Weber, Max
- Webster, H.T.
- White House
- Williams, Tyrell
- Women's Political Union
- Women--Suffrage
- World War, 1914-1918, Art and War
- World War, 1914-1918, Blacks
- World War, 1914-1918, Bonds
- World War, 1914-1918, Civilian Relief
- World War, 1914-1918, Economic aspects
- World War, 1914-1918, Food question
- World War, 1914-1918, Humor, caricatures, etc.
- World War, 1914-1918, Propaganda
- World War, 1914-1918, U.S.
- World War, 1939-1945, Art and War
- World War, 1939-1945, Bonds
- World War, 1939-1945, Humor, caricatures, etc.
- World War, 1939-1945, Propaganda
- World War, 1939-1945, U.S.
- Young Men's Christian Association
- Young, Art
- Yukon--Description and Travel
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