Political imagery

In art, wheelbarrows seem most often to symbolize domestic peace (leisurely lower gardening), or work.

This image is more about the money than the wheelbarrow, and the motif os a wheelbarrow full of money has been around at least since the early 20th century. This little animated gif came up in a search for something else (as many fun and surprising things do), and was from 2005, on a Zionist website, in a complaint about The World Bank supporting Palestine. If you go to http://ddsrail.tripod.com/april05.htm and search for "global world" you'll see it in context.

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MONEY COMES, MONEY GOES: EUROPEAN UNION SUBSIDIES IN HUNGARY, June 2016

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In Georgia, wheelbarrows have been involved (peripherally) in two gubernatorial elections. Lisa Land Cooper wrote about it on her blog. Here's a quote about the first one, and an image from the second one (1948):

"...I had run across a newspaper article dated August 25, 1910 where J.B. Cook, a merchant near Red Oak supported Hoke Smith for governor while his friend, Dr. J.B. Carmichael was just as enthusiastic over Brown. So, they decided the loser would push the winner from Atlanta to College Park in wheelbarrow." —Lisa Land Cooper June 27, 2017

Contest imagery (riding in a wheelbarrow full of money)

I pulled a page from Entertainment Weekly, with a photo of a blonde woman in a wheelbarrow full of money, with three people behind her—a dark-haired white man; black man; darker-skinned woman (the woman in the wheelbarrow below).

When I googled to see if I could find the image, I found this one:

This image appeared on "Empowering Everyday Women," and accompanied an editorial by Dianna Hobbs objecting to cigarettes being advertised in Ebony magazine. http://www.empoweringeverydaywomen.com/cigarette-ads-in-black-magazines-this-needs-to-stop.html

The graphics and background are all the same. Same wheelbarrow and money. Different set of models. (Two of the models in the image above are also in the image used in Entertainment Weekly.)

But the motif of a wheelbarrow full of money here is happier than those from Germany between the wars noted in this post: A wheelbarrow full of money

A wheelbarrow full of money

Tony Robinson has a new series of humorous history books for kids. They're quite British and some of the jokes and references don't translate to American English or culture, but I got a set for Marty and for me. Marty knew about this story.




He knew of money carried in wheelbarrows. He didn't know whether a wheelbarrow was ever stolen. :-) I went to look and found photographs (whether posed or candid, I don't know).



With an image search, I came up with lots of images of money-filled wheelbarrows, but general art. Except for the one above, I don't think any were of German money between the wars.