JM-037: Two scenes showing the groups supporting Davis and Bryan for president and vice president

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Editorial cartoon depicting two scenes of different groups supporting their choice for the presidential ticket. The top panel shows groups supporting Charles W. Bryan for vice president cheering at a large picture of Bryan. The bottom panel shows groups cheering at a large picture for John W. Davis, who was running for president. Davis and Bryan were the official running mates for the Democratic Party in the 1924 presidential race.

JM-203: Big Bills

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Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes showing the reparations against Germany preventing the country from holding civilization again, the crime wave hitting Chicago even when one man believes he has ended it, and the G.O.P. elephant looking for a candidate but finding Taft being friendly with Wilson.

JM-270: The inquiring reporter

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Published in the Chicago Tribune on September 10, 1929.,"270"--Handwritten on verso.,"Office of the Managing Editor 4th Floor Tribune Tower"--Handwritten on verso.,"South Elevator"--Handwritten on verso.,"1929 SEP 10 PM 6 55"--Stamped in ink on verso.,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.

JM-210: Some angles of the threatened railway strike

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Editorial cartoon split in to three panels, each one showing a possible consequence of the impending railroad strike. In the top panel, Uncle Same driving a truck labeled "U.S. Business Conditions" and a truck labeled "Winter" stopped on the road by detour signs with the railroad strike causing the disruption and need for a detour. In the middle panel, a man representing the United States is in bed sick and resting while the doctor tells him he should be fine as long as no complications set in; running towards the house is a boy with a newspaper proclaiming the railroad strike. In the bottom panel, striking railroad workers stand around a train which is carrying relief for workers suffering from armament competitions.