Keep off! Monroe doctrine, Historic Print

Drawn from the Library of Congress archive, this print depicts Keep off! Monroe doctrine. The Library holds one of the most comprehensive collections of American and international historical prints in the world.

Library of Congress record: Created 1912 No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower left: TE Powers. Title from sign in image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1158) Powers' editorial cartoon suggests the threat of Japanese aggression, relating to an April 1912 incident in which a Japanese fishing company attempted to purchase a large piece of land from Mexico on Magdalena Bay. Officials suspected the Japanese government of installing the fishing company there as a front in order to use the land for military purposes. When questioned by suspicious Americans, Japanese officials promised that the land would not be used for military purposes. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge saw it as a direct threat to American security,.

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