Lincoln Birthday Event

[Steve]

I did a quick search and the first cartoon was printed nationwide on the weekend of February 11-12, 1956.

The second set of cartoons are from an article in the February 11, 1956 edition of the Chicago Tribune which was republished in a few other newspapers. The cartoon on the right ("I heerd Nancy") was a reprint and had first been published on page one of the February 12, 1929 edition of the Tribune. It was drawn by cartoonist John T. McCutcheon:

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