JM-027: Marriage of Brooklyn and New York

Creators and Contributors

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

Extent

1 sheet : b&w ; 28 x 55 cm

Description

Editorial cartoon depicting the marriage between a woman representing Brooklyn and a man representing New York. Figures representing other towns and counties in New York state watch the wedding, with almost all of them appearing upset. The image probably refers to a consolidation in 1898 that merged the borough of Brooklyn with New York city and created a shared police force and fire department for the newly enlarged City of Greater New York.

Note

Published in the Chicago Tribune, date not known.,"27"--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 supplied by cataloger.

Resource Type

Still Image

Subject (Topic)

Marriage

Metropolitan government

Geographic (Subject)

New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn

New York (State)--New York

Identifier

mu:419607

Member of

McCutcheon Editorial Cartoons - ALL (Collection)