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MIRROR, MIRROR, FROM THE WALL, WHO PAYS THE HIGHEST TAXES OF THEM ALL?

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Date:

1980-1987.

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3718944

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Ollie Simpkins fonds

MIRROR, MIRROR, FROM THE WALL, WHO PAYS THE HIGHEST TAXES OF THEM ALL?
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Date(s):

1980-1987.

Place:

Ontario:

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 drawing pen and black ink and wash, over pencil, with opaque white on paper.
Support 30.000 x 35.100 cm

Language of material:

English

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One of a group of original cartoon drawings executed for Laurentian Publishing Ltd. publications "Northern Life" and "Northern Ontario Business," ca. 1980-1987. Some were likely produced for the "Sudbury Star." This cartoon depicts Alderman Lamoureux holding up a mirror in front of Joe Public who holds a document labeled 'Sudbury Taxes' and asks the question "....who pays the highest taxes of them all?" The mirror bounces back several answers: "Peel Region, Metro Toronto, Hamilton Region and Hamilton-Wentworth." Alderman Lamoureux's comment is: "Stupid mirror."
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Artist: Simpkins, Ollie, 1911-1991

Lamoureux, Maurice
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Inscribed in pen and black ink, u.l.: MIRROR, MIRROR, FROM / THE WALL, WHO PAYS / THE HIGHEST TAXES / OF THEM ALL? ; u.r.: STUPID / MIRROR ; c.: PEEL REGION / METRO TORONTO / HAMILTON REGION / HAMILTON-WENTWORTH ; l.l.: SUBURY / TAXES [on document] ; ALD. / LAMOUREUX [on briefcase] ; SIMPKINS
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Sudbury (Ont.)

cartoon

political

social
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Private

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R11524-00028
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Graphic (art)

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Item no. assigned by LAC [R11524-00028] 28

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R11524-28
Copyright: Estate of Ollie Simpkins.

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