Editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. 100 original drawings, cartoons with over-lays and color processes, engraving printing plates, correspondence, photos and other papers.

Correspondence, speeches, articles, leaflets, clippings, scrapbooks and a sketchbook, mostly dealing with politics, conservation, or family affairs, assembled by newspaper cartoonist Ding Darling of The Des Moines Register. There are also some 6,000 original pen-and-ink cartoons drawn by Darling.

This collection contains various renderings of Sharpnack cartoons, many being focused on political issues/trends from the 1980s-early 2000s. Along with cartoons are Sharpnack's cartoon flipbooks that he produced in the late 1990s.