JM-201: Making a bad situation worse

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Details

Creators and Contributors

Artist: McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949

Original Date Issued

1920

Extent

1 sheet : b&w ; 45 x 37 cm

Description

Editorial cartoon depicting undesirable immigrants coming off a ship near Ellis Island while an army of the unemployed Americans watch them.

Note

Published in the Chicago Tribune in 1920.,"201"--Handwritten on verso.,"Office of the Managing Editor [line of illegible text cut off by edge of board]"--Handwritten on verso.,Pencil and ink on board.,Original in University of Missouri Special Collections, John Tinney McCutcheon Collection.,Digitized on September 2017. Equipment: Indus Color Book Scanner. Scanning software: bcs-2 version 3.4.9. Image specifications: 400 dpi, color. Access copies: tiffs with LZW compression, rotated and cropped.,Title from caption.

Resource Type

Still Image

Subject (Topic)

Emigration and immigration

Unemployed

Poor

Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)

Subject (Temporal)

1920-1929

Geographic (Subject)

United States

United States--Ellis Island