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"IF IT'S SEA STORIES YOU WANT - JUST ASK OLD CAP'N MIKE."

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Item

Date:

1961

Reference:

Box number: 20000

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2874024

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Lester B. Pearson fonds

"IF IT'S SEA STORIES YOU WANT - JUST ASK OLD CAP'N MIKE."
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1961

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen and brush and black ink over pencil on wove paper
Support 45.700 x 35.600 cm

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a single image depicting Lester Pearson, weighed down with medals commemorating his various postings, whittling a "party plank" and talking with a boyish John Kennedy who has skinned knees over Laos and Cuba, March 1976 - the work is soiled and smudged. There is a stain l.l. and the left and right edges are discoloured., Artist file no. 707-5.
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Artist: Chambers, Robert, 1905-1996

Pearson, Lester B., 1897-1972

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: Upper edge "'IF IT'S SEA STORIES YOU WANT - JUST ASK OLD CAP'N MIKE'"; in brush and ink; centre "INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY // LAOS // CUBA // EX-/ MINISTER / EXTERNAL / AFFAIRS // EX-/ AMBASSADOR / TO / WASHINGTON // EX.-PRES / U.N. // NOBEL / PEACE / PRIZE // PARTY PLANK" in brush and ink; l.l. "JUNE 12, 1961 // Chambers - '61" first line in pencil, second in brush and ink.
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political

social

politique

cartoon / dessin humoristique

SUBJ. - Political : Cartoon Depicting John F. Kennedy, (President of the U.S.) as a young boy

Kennedy, John F. / Pearson, Lester B. / Cuba / Laos / Canada-U.S. relations
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Private

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1976-024 PIC
00007
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1976-024] 20000

[Consultation 90 Open]

020000 Item no. assigned by LAC 7

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00007] C-138742

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1976-24-7 Source: transfer from Manuscript Division, L.B. Pearson Papers, MG 26 N.
Copyright: Robert Chambers

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