JM-101: Mississippi at the St. Louis Fair

Creators and Contributors

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

Original Date Issued

1904

Extent

1 sheet : b&w ; 37 x 54 cm

Description

Editorial cartoon depicting a parade of Mississippi entries winding through the page. Groups and people in the parade include: John Sharp Williams, a car "for white folks" alongside a "Jim Crow car", the Jefferson Davis club, and Mississippi river sailors.

Note

Published in the Chicago Tribune on September 9, 1904.,"101"--Handwritten on verso.,"Sept. 9 1904"--Handwritten on verso.,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)

Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Segregation in transportation

Segregation

Racism

Igorot (Philippine people)

Subject (Temporal)

1900-1909

Geographic (Subject)

Missouri -- Saint Louis