Cartoons (humorous images)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pictorial images, usually drawings, that are humorous or that use wit and satire to comment on contemporary events, social habits, political trends, or other topical subjects, often executed in a broad or abbreviated manner. Originally referred to full-page illustrations in a circulating paper or periodical, especially when comical and relating to current events.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Injun Summer Wood Block Printing Plates
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSR 13
Scope and Contents
Two wooden printing blocks used to print the Injun Summer cartoon by John T. McCutcheon.
Dates:
undated
John McCutcheon cartoon print
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: 20170510.2
Dates:
1912
John T. McCutcheon cartoons and drawings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 1
Scope and Contents
The John T. McCutcheon Cartoons and Drawings (1903-1945; forty-two oversized boxes) consist of drawings and sketches created by John McCutcheon throughout his career at the Chicago Tribune, as well as some print versions of his cartoons. The cartoons cover a wide variety of subjects relating to United States history, documenting daily life and political matters from the early 1900s through the 1940s. Some of the many subjects include: railroads, Woodrow Wilson, Uncle Sam, John Purdue, Purdue...
Dates:
1903-1945
John T. McCutcheon papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 278
Abstract
Sketches, Purdue-related documents, and information files about McCutcheon's cartoons. Box 11: McCutcheon's handwritten account of the origins of Injun Summer and The Hunter's Moon (original pencil notes in JTM's hand); McCutcheon's handwritten account of the origins of Bird Center cartoons (original pencil notes in JTM's hand); Prints (reproductions) and newspaper clippings of some of McCutcheon's popular cartoons, circa 1930s; Sketches, original pen and ink drawings for Ade's Pink Marsh,...
Dates:
1897-1979
Joe McCutcheon collection of John T. McCutcheon printed material
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 274
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four matted and framed front pages of the Chicago Sunday Tribune publications that featured John T. McCutcheon cartoons during 1929 and 1939. More specifically, the McCutcheon cartoons included in this collection are: "Jack Frost" (1922), "Some of the Permanent Exhibits Chicago will be able to show the World's Fair Visitors" (1933), "Injun Summer" (1912), and "The Colors" (1917). The collection was donated by Joe McCutcheon (no relation to John T. McCutcheon). The...
Dates:
1929 - 1939
Scrapbooks of John T. McCutcheon cartoons
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 14
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks of John McCutcheon cartoons, as cut out from the newspaper. Compiled by a friend of the McCutcheon family and later given to the family.
Dates:
1903 - 1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/11/2009