Album “A”, 1893-1975
Scope and Contents note
41 volumes, the bulk of which are collected clippings of McCutcheon’s editorial cartoons for the Chicago Record and the Chicago Tribune. The last eight scrapbooks are on various topics; two being fairly complete collections of clippings about McCutcheon’s life. Other scrapbooks include clippings, letters, ephemera and many loose items from McCutcheon’s days at Purdue University; clippings of work by and about McCutcheon from the magazine of Sigma Chi, McCutcheon’s fraternity at Purdue; copies of works and articles about McCutcheon in a large scrapbooks labeled, “Blue Portfolio; Lakeside Press;” and a small scrapbook labeled “Album A,” containing very diverse contents: McCutcheon’s tickets from attending the World’s Columbian Exposition as well as executions at Cook County Jail, his 1903 contract with Chicago Tribune, letters, envelopes, travel-related material, Salt Cay related material, and posthumous information about John T. McCutcheon High School in Chicago. There is also a large portfolio of clippings, photos, correspondence, poems, sketches, etc. assembled by Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon about Salt Cay, the island in the Bahamas that McCutcheon purchased in 1917.
There is a large overlap of the materials in this series with the materials in every other series in the McCutcheon papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1893-1975
Creator
- From the Collection: McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The John T. McCutcheon papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
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