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Album “A”, 1893-1975

 File — Volume: 40

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

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

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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