Drawing the line in Mississippi

Photograph reproduces a newspaper cartoon in the Washington Post. The cartoon is a detail from a series called "The Passing Show" about President Theodore Roosevelt's purported refusal to shoot a chained bear while on a hunting trip in Missississippi. The little bear, Bruin, became so popular that Berryman used him frequently in later cartoons on many different topics. Although Berryman helped popularize the association of Teddy Roosevelt with bears, he did not invent the toy teddy bear. (Source: Teddy Bear Men: Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford Berryman, by Linda Mullins, 1987, p. 32-3.)
The Archives of American Art has a reproduction of the original drawing.
The Library of Congress does not own the original drawing for this cartoon.