JM-009: A week with a great wheat speculator

Details
Creators and Contributors
Artist: McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949
Extent
1 sheet : b&w ; 36 x 53 cm
Description
Editorial cartoon depicting seven panels, labeled the days of the week. The main focus is on a man who corners the wheat market and is besieged by a large crowd until he buys a ticket to leave town. The final panel shows the man riding a donkey through a desert.
Note
Published in the Chicago Tribune, date not known.,"Mr. Hammer 314 Tribune Bldg"--Handwritten on verso twice.,Pencil and ink on board.,Original in University of Missouri Special Collections, John Tinney McCutcheon Collection.,Digitized on January 2018. 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)
Speculation
Wheat trade
Identifier
mu:419589
Member of
McCutcheon Editorial Cartoons - ALL (Collection)
Digital Creation Date
2018-02-02
Date Modified
2021-07-23