Lyle Lahey Cartoons, 1968-1996, 2003, 2005-2011

Contents List

Container Title
Green Bay Mss 102
Part 1 (Green Bay Mss 102): Original Collection, 1968-1979
Physical Description: 3.2 cubic feet (12 flat boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Original drawings of cartoons, circa March 1968-1979, by Lyle Lahey which were published in the Green Bay News Chronicle and its predecessor, the Brown County Chronicle concerning local, state, and national topics.
Box   1
Environment; Snowmobiles; Weather
Box   2-4
Green Bay
Scope and Content Note: Box 3 includes construction projects. Box 4 includes censorship and pornography issues, Packerland, S.S. Brawan, and Brown County.
Box   5
Green Bay Packers; The National Football League
Box   6
International topics
Scope and Content Note: Includes international relations, Iran, oil and the energy crisis, and Vietnam Conflict.
Box   7-9
National topics
Scope and Content Note: Box 7 includes Congress, national elections, the law, civil rights and the Supreme Court. Box 9 includes business/industry, labor, and the Post Office.
Box   10
Personalities
Scope and Content Note: Includes Green Bay personalities, Harold Froelich, Father Groppi, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, and Watergate.
Box   11-12
Wisconsin topics
Scope and Content Note: Box 12 includes governors and the Legislature.
Green Bay Mss 102
Part 2 (Green Bay Mss 102): Additions, 1975-1996, 2003, 2005-2011
Physical Description: 1.0 cubic foot (3 archives boxes). Approximately 3000 cartoons. 
Scope and Content Note

Original drawings of cartoons, 1975-1996, 2003 and 2005-2011, by Lyle Lahey which were published in the Green Bay News-Chronicle daily newspaper and, after the paper ceased publication in 2005, online on a website. A feature of the Opinion page, the cartoons cover a wide variety of local, state, national, and international politics. Current events, social issues, political figures, celebrities, and sports are also included.

Major topics are noted in the contents list, but are by no means all-inclusive. Many additional topics are included in each folder. Cartoons reflect Lahey's views on many political and social issues, from local to international. Prominent examples are:

  • Middle East politics (particularly Iraq and the War on Terror after 9/11/2001)
  • Political figures (contemporary local, state, national, and international such as: Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt, Wisconsin Governors Jim Doyle and Scott Walker, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Kim Jong-il)
  • United States economy (including job outsourcing, economic stimulus, and bailouts)
  • The environment (including oil drilling, oil spills, energy regulation, and global warming)
  • Healthcare and Medicare
  • Controversial legislation (voter identification, gun control, illegal immigration, same-sex marriage, and No Child Left Behind)
  • Political and religious groups (Tea Party and Westboro Baptist Church)
  • Celebrities

Cartoons from 2004 are not present in the collection.

Box   13
Folder   1
Miscellaneous cartoons, 1975 July-1996 August, undated
Box   13
Folder   2
2003 January
Scope and Content Note: Fox River.
Box   13
Folder   2
2003 February
Scope and Content Note:
  • National and State school funding
  • North Korea
  • Space Shuttle Columbia

Box   13
Folder   2
2003 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • Fox River
  • United Nations
  • John Gard

Box   13
Folder   2
2003 April
Scope and Content Note:
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • Trickle-down economics
  • John Ashcroft
  • Universal health care
  • Campaign finance reform
  • Tommy Thompson
  • Jim Doyle
  • Indian Gaming Compact

Box   13
Folder   3
2003 May
Scope and Content Note:
  • Job outsourcing
  • Ari Fleischer
  • Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
  • Indian Gaming Compact
  • Tommy Thompson

Box   13
Folder   3
2003 June
Scope and Content Note:
  • Healthcare reform
  • Social Security
  • Global Warming
  • Oil
  • Wisconsin state budget
  • Iraq
  • Iran
  • Medicare

Box   13
Folder   3
2003 July
Scope and Content Note:
  • Unemployment
  • September 11, 2001 terrorist attack

Box   13
Folder   3
2003 August
Scope and Content Note:
  • No Child Left Behind
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • Lambeau Field
  • Job outsourcing
  • Department of Natural Resources
  • Energy regulation
  • Brown County Mental Health Center
  • Jim Doyle

Box   13
Folder   4
2003 September
Scope and Content Note:
  • George W. Bush
  • Concealed Carry law
  • Wisconsin state campaign finance reform
  • NASA
  • Iraq War
  • Johnny Cash
  • Green Bay and Manitowoc Water

Box   13
Folder   4
2003 October
Scope and Content Note:
  • Brown County budget cuts
  • Wisconsin state taxes
  • Fox River
  • Plame Affair
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Dennis N. Kocken
  • Lambeau Field
  • Al Qaida
  • China
  • Iraq War
  • War draft
  • Jim Doyle
  • Concealed Carry law
  • Same-sex marriage
  • Jim Schmitt (Green Bay mayor)
  • Daylight Savings Time
  • Congressional Pay Raises

Box   13
Folder   4
2003 November
Scope and Content Note:
  • Concealed Carry law
  • United States economy
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Jim Doyle
  • Brown County Police Department
  • John Allen Muhammad
  • Jim Schmitt (Green Bay mayor)
  • Michael Jackson
  • Medicare
  • Plame Affair
  • Saddam Hussein
  • Iraq
  • Al Qaida
  • George W. Bush

Box   13
Folder   4
2003 December
Scope and Content Note:
  • Social Security
  • Jim Doyle
  • Medicare
  • George W. Bush
  • First Amendment
  • Corporations
  • Halliburton
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Mad Cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
  • Axis of Evil

Box   13
Folder   5
2005 January
Scope and Content Note:
  • Jim Schmitt (Green Bay mayor)
  • Alberto Gonzales
  • Renard Island (Green Bay)
  • Dick Cheney
  • Social Security
  • Iraq
  • Donald Rumsfeld
  • George W. Bush
  • Tsunami (Southeast Asia)

Box   13
Folder   4
2005 February
Scope and Content Note:
  • Minimum wage
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Renard Island (Green Bay)
  • Social Security

Box   13
Folder   5
2005 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • Road salt
  • Osama bin Laden
  • Gun background checks
  • Gas prices
  • Voter identification law
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Iraq
  • Congressional pay raises
  • Made in China

Box   14
Folder   1
2005 April
Scope and Content Note:
  • Manitowoc pipeline
  • Credit card industry
  • Abu Ghraib Prison
  • Green Bay Packers
  • Alaska
  • Medicare
  • Viagra
  • Contraception

Box   14
Folder   1
2005 May
Scope and Content Note:
  • Michael Jackson
  • BadgerCare

Box   14
Folder   1
2005 June
Scope and Content Note: Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Box   14
Folder   2
2006 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • Iraq
  • Iraq War
  • Oil
  • Social programs

Box   14
Folder   2
2006 April
Scope and Content Note:
  • Tom DeLay
  • Daylight Savings Time
  • Karl Rove
  • Climate Change

Box   14
Folder   2
2006 May
Scope and Content Note: Mexico.
Box   14
Folder   2
2006 June
Scope and Content Note:
  • First Amendment
  • Ethanol
  • Marriage Protection Act

Box   14
Folder   2
2006 July
Scope and Content Note:
  • Terrorism
  • Middle East

Box   14
Folder   2
2006 August
Scope and Content Note:
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • Michael Jackson
  • EPA
  • Medicare

Box   14
Folder   2
2006 October
Scope and Content Note:
  • Drug companies
  • Healthcare
  • Iran

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 January
Scope and Content Note:
  • Corporations
  • Iraq War
  • George W. Bush
  • Iran
  • Hurricane Katrina

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 February
Scope and Content Note:
  • Dick Cheney
  • North Korea
  • Iraq War

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Patriot Act
  • Alberto Gonzales
  • Karl Rove

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 April
Scope and Content Note:
  • No Child Left Behind
  • Steven Biskupic
  • Reverend Al Sharpton

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 May
Scope and Content Note:
  • World Health Organization
  • Halliburton
  • Oil

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 June
Scope and Content Note:
  • Climate Change
  • Illegal immigration
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Job outsourcing
  • American-made products
  • Dick Cheney

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 July
Scope and Content Note:
  • Affirmative action
  • Lewis "Scooter" Libby
  • September 11, 2001 terrorist attack
  • George W. Bush
  • Dick Cheney

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 August
Scope and Content Note:
  • Russ Feingold
  • Alberto Gonzales
  • Lobbyists
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Karl Rove
  • Guantanamo Bay

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 September
Scope and Content Note:
  • Iraq War
  • Housing market
  • Healthcare

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 October
Scope and Content Note:
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Iraq War
  • Blackwater Baghdad shootings
  • Healthcare
  • Hurricane Katrina

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 November
Scope and Content Note:
  • Judge Michael Mukasey
  • War debt

Box   14
Folder   3
2007 December
Scope and Content Note:
  • Contraception
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  • Judge Michael Mukasey
  • Mike Huckabee

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 January
Scope and Content Note:
  • War debt
  • George W. Bush
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Illegal immigration
  • Tax relief/Jobs moving to China

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 February
Scope and Content Note:
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Bill Clinton
  • Barack Obama
  • John McCain
  • National Football League (NFL)
  • Federal budget/Medicare/Medicaid/War debt
  • Drug companies

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • Iraq War
  • Israel

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 April
Scope and Content Note:
  • Ethanol
  • Olympic Games in China
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt/Great Depression
  • Department of Energy
  • Israel Peace Talks

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 May
Scope and Content Note:
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Ted Kennedy
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 June
Scope and Content Note:
  • Exxon
  • Nuclear power
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Auto industry

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 July
Scope and Content Note:
  • September 11, 2001 terrorist attack
  • Osama bin Laden
  • George W. Bush
  • Dick Cheney
  • Iran
  • Gas Prices
  • General Motors

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 August
Scope and Content Note:
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Russia
  • Barack Obama
  • Karl Rove
  • Georgia (country)

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 September
Scope and Content Note:
  • John McCain
  • China
  • Financial market
  • Barack Obama
  • Georgia (country)
  • Dick Cheney
  • Sarah Palin

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 October
Scope and Content Note:
  • John McCain
  • Sarah Palin
  • Nancy Pelosi

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 November
Scope and Content Note:
  • Bailouts
  • George W. Bush
  • Sarah Palin
  • Environment

Box   14
Folder   4
2008 December
Scope and Content Note:
  • George W. Bush
  • Dick Cheney
  • United States economic recession
  • Job outsourcing
  • Pentagon
  • Labor unions
  • Rod Blagojevich
  • Auto bailouts

Box   15
Folder   1
2009 January
Scope and Content Note:
  • Auto industry
  • George W. Bush
  • Dick Cheney
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Barack Obama
  • Bank bailouts

Box   15
Folder   1
2009 February
Scope and Content Note:
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Auto bailouts
  • Bank bailouts
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Roland Burris
  • War on Terror
  • Auto industry
  • Iraq War

Box   15
Folder   1
2009 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • Barack Obama
  • Auto industry
  • Michelle Obama
  • AIG (American International Group) Insurance
  • Dick Cheney
  • Catholicism
  • Pro Life vs. Pro Choice
  • Military Ave. (Green Bay) Roundabouts

Box   15
Folder   1
2009 April
Scope and Content Note:
  • Auto bailouts
  • Bank bailouts
  • National Rifle Association (NRA)
  • Afghanistan
  • Fox River
  • Offshore oil drilling
  • Dick Cheney
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Healthcare
  • Mining regulations
  • North Korea

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 May
Scope and Content Note:
  • Arlen Specter
  • Swine Flu
  • Pakistan
  • Auto bailouts
  • Bank bailouts
  • North Korea
  • Kim Jong-il
  • Barack Obama
  • Healthcare

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 June
Scope and Content Note:
  • Propaganda
  • Media
  • Pro Life vs. Pro Choice
  • Stimulus package
  • Iran
  • Rush Limbaugh/General Motors

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 July
Scope and Content Note:
  • Sarah Palin
  • North Korea
  • Lobbyists
  • Healthcare reform

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 August
Scope and Content Note:
  • Cash for Clunkers
  • Russ Feingold

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 September
Scope and Content Note:
  • Healthcare reform
  • Max Baucus

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 October
Scope and Content Note:
  • Nobel Peace Prize
  • Afghanistan
  • Swine Flu

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 November
Scope and Content Note:
  • Wall Street
  • Swine Flu
  • NRA (National Rifle Association)
  • Healthcare
  • John McCain
  • Sarah Palin
  • Healthcare, Barack Obama's proposal
  • Afghanistan

Box   15
Folder   2
2009 December
Scope and Content Note:
  • Tiger Woods
  • Gas prices
  • Pro Life vs. Pro Choice
  • Healthcare
  • Pork barrel spending

Box   15
Folder   3
2010 January
Scope and Content Note:
  • Barack Obama
  • Homeland Security
  • Corporations ruled as People by Supreme Court

Box   15
Folder   3
2010 February
Scope and Content Note:
  • Healthcare
  • Sarah Palin
  • Middle East
  • Tea Party
  • Koch Brothers

Box   15
Folder   3
2010 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • Barack Obama
  • Toyota automobile recall

Box   15
Folder   3
2010 May
Scope and Content Note:
  • Illegal immigration
  • Osama bin Laden

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 February
Scope and Content Note: Koch Brothers.
Box   15
Folder   4
2011 March
Scope and Content Note:
  • National Public Radio
  • Libya
  • Labor unions
  • Collective bargaining
  • Westboro Baptist Church

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 April
Scope and Content Note:
  • Donald Trump
  • Libya
  • Scott Walker
  • Paul Ryan
  • Medicare

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 May
Scope and Content Note:
  • Wisconsin voter identification card law
  • Concealed Carry law
  • NRA
  • Frank Wood

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 June
Scope and Content Note:
  • Scott Walker
  • Terrorism
  • Osama bin Laden

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 July
Scope and Content Note:
  • Tea Party
  • Social Security
  • Tax cuts
  • Medicare
  • David Prosser Jr.
  • Anne Bradley

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 August
Scope and Content Note:
  • Tea Party
  • United States credit rating
  • Wall Street

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 September
Scope and Content Note:
  • European Union
  • September 11, 2001 terrorist attack
  • Scott Walker
  • Labor unions
  • Collective bargaining

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 October
Scope and Content Note:
  • Herman Cain
  • NRA (National Rifle Association)
  • Job market
  • Concealed Carry law
  • Voter identification law

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 November
Scope and Content Note:
  • Occupy Wall Street movement
  • Newt Gingrich
  • John Bergstrom (Neenah, Wisconsin)
  • Green Bay Packers
  • Wisconsin wetlands
  • Pennsylvania State child sex abuse scandal (Jerry Sandusky)

Box   15
Folder   4
2011 December
Scope and Content Note:
  • Herman Cain
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Wisconsin Governor recall election

Box   15
Folder   5
"Possibles" labeled folder
Scope and Content Note:
  • Alan Greenspan
  • Arizona Identification Law
  • Jake Rose
  • Auto bailouts
  • Bank bailouts
  • Healthcare
  • Exxon
  • Tommy Thompson
  • Iran-Contra Scandal

Box   15
Folder   6
Two photos of Lyle Lahey