JM-209: City Pigeons

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Editorial cartoon depicting a pigeon flying away from a street busy with cars. The pigeon then sits on a ledge, and a person sitting at a desk can be seen through the window behind the pigeon.

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Title

JM-209: City Pigeons

Creators/Contributors

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 (artist)

Date Issued

1921

Notes

Editorial cartoon depicting a pigeon flying away from a street busy with cars. The pigeon then sits on a ledge, and a person sitting at a desk can be seen through the window behind the pigeon.

Published in the Chicago Tribune on February 1, 1921.

"209"--Handwritten on verso.

"Office of the Managing Editor 5th Floor Tribune Plant"--Handwritten on verso.

Drawing, possibly for a different cartoon, on verso.

Pencil and ink on board.

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.

Subjects

Pigeons

City and town life

Time Period

1920-1929

Language

English

Extent

1 sheet : b&w ; 35 x 38 cm

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Type/Format

still image