Mugs
Description: The Cincinnati Reds claim the title of "America's Oldest Baseball Team" and their Mr. Red mascot has been a part of the Cincinnati franchise for 60 years. The origins of Mr. Red are rooted in the anti-Communist "Red Scare" of the early 1950s. In April 1953 the team announced that they would henceforth be known as the Cincinnati Redlegs. One newspaper account stated that while the team didn't cite a specific reason for the name change, "there's been some freestyle guessing that the political meaning of the word 'reds' might have something to do with it."
Description: I re-created a 1937 Panther Federal Art Project poster created to promote the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, which was then commonly known as the Brookside Zoo. While it is no longer officially called Brookside Zoo, it remains located within the Brookside Reservation in Cleveland, Ohio
