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Cartoons, political and advertising

Listed here you will find the political and advertising cartoons as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre. 

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  • item 331 (w) Beecham's Pills (Mr. Pickwick)
  • item 9 Bill Sikes ('Punch'' 21 February 1906)
  • item 349 (i) Buzfuz
  • item 259 (s) Captain Cuttle as advertisement
  • item 341A (d) Catesby's Drolleries
  • item 293 (h) Curious Old Coloured Crayon
  • item 298 (w) Crowquill's 'Boz -in-a -Merry-Key'
  • item 341A (f) Dewar's Whisky
  • item 296 (ee, k) Dixon's Double Diamond Port(adv)
  • item 341A (j, k) Eiffel Tower Lemonade
  • item 296 (i) Eiffel Tower Lemonade and Sam Weller
  • item 331 (p) Encyclopaedia Britannica (Pickwick and Mrs Jarley)
  • item 324 (kk) Mazawattee Tea (Captain Cuttle)
  • item 320 (m) 'Moonshine', 27 June 1891: 'Stiggins'
  • item 331 (o) 'Punch' 19 July 1890. Oscar Wilde as the 'Fat Boy'
  • item 331 (s, u) 'Punch' 2 May 1885. Gladstone as Mrs Gummidge
  • item 339 (c) 'Punch' 31 October 1896.'The political Fat Boy again'
  • item 261 'Punch' ? Mr Balfour as the 'Fat Boy'
  • item 320 (m) 'Puck.' 11 January 1890 John Bull as Pickwick
  • item 296 (d) 'St Stephen's Review.' 20 June, 1891. Sairey Gamp and Mrs Prig
  • item 331 (z) and 341 (+f) 'Tower Tea': Pickwick
  • item 339 (n) Van Houten's Cocoa. Bumble
  • item 259 (p) Van Houten's Cocoa. Tony Weller
  • item 196 Van Houtens' Cocoa. Micawber
  • item 295 (m) 'Westminster Gazette'. Cartoon by F.C. Gould
  • item 298 (c) Westminster Gazette. Cartoon by F.C. Gould

For more information contact Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre by telephone: 01634 332714 or by email: malsc@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR

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