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JOHN TINNEY McCUTCHEON.
Group of 4 political cartoons.
Pen and ink, each published in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Each signed “McCutcheon,”
lower right corner, and mounted on black card.
[800/1,200]
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‘Help! Help! Police! Police!’” 444x360 mm; 17
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inches. December 30, 1907. A
Chicagoan is mercilessly attacked by the Grip Germ *When a Rich and Powerful Leader of a
Crime Ring Passes On. 370x360 mm; 14
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x14 inches.A sardonic comment on the sad rela-
tionship of organized crime with prominent public figures. Exhibited inThe Cartoons of JohnT.
McCutcheon: Chronicles of a Changing World at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Chicago
Rooms, May 30-August 2, 2009 * Reported Gov. Small Will Ask for Change of Venue.
395x340 mm; 15
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inches.All the surrounding States watch as Governor Len Small of
Illinois fights accusations of political corruption * Wish He Wouldn’t Look at Us That Way.
320x315 mm; 13
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x12
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inches. The Sun beats down on the Earth through magnifying
glasses as a man in Chicago cries,“Hey! Cut that out! See!”
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JOHN TINNEY McCUTCHEON.
Group of 4 political cartoons.
Pen and ink, each published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, signed “McCutcheon” lower
right corner, and mounted on black card.
[800/1,200]
John T. McCutcheon was known as the “Dean of American Cartoonists” and won the Pulitzer
Prize for his political cartoons in 1931.Well Intrenched. 430x355 mm; 17x13
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inches. 1928.
Commentary on the war between organized crime with political connections and the police force
divided by a barbed wire fence of legal delays, friendly judges, cash, crooked lawyers, low grade
juries, money, political influence, and organization votes * The “’49er” and the ’29er.”
430x340 mm; 16
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inches.August 21, 1931.The ghost of an old Forty-niner confronts
a baffled businessman trying to recover from the Crash of 1929 * Who Paid for the Atomic
Bomb. 370x345 mm; 14x13
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inches. November 18, 1945 * When the Battleship Gets
Scared of the Atomic Bomb. 410x345 mm; 17x13
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inches. January 13, 1946. Two late
attacks on the enormous cost of the American development of the Atomic Bomb.
