JM-244: Cartoons of the day

Creators and Contributors

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

Original Date Issued

1927

Extent

1 sheet : b&w ; 36 x 51 cm

Description

Editorial cartoon depicting the cartoons of the day: people searching for Comet K, a family attempting to board a plane to Paris only to find out their flight has been postponed, and Raymond Poincaré, the 58th Prime Minister of France, trying to keep the war hatreds alive.

Note

Published in the Chicago Tribune in 1927.,"244" -- Handwritten on verso.,"Caption: Cartoons of the Day. Under 1: Looking for the comet. Under 2: There's still an element of uncertainty about trans-Atlantic air travel. Under 3: Trying to keep the war hatreds alive (redacted). Somebody ought to tell him the war is over." -- 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 (Temporal)

1920-1929

Geographic (Subject)

France

Identifier

mu:419339

Member of

McCutcheon Editorial Cartoons - ALL (Collection)

Digital Creation Date

2017-11-01