Some of the many phases of the annual mayday hegira

A series of illustrations depict people moving during the month of May. The illustrations depict a man slipping from a scaffold and dropping a bucket of paint on a woman; a woman and a man opening the door to a wrecked room; two identical looking buildings with the captions "the house they moved from," "the house the moved in;" a man looking from his window into a neighbor's window with his binoculars and a caption that reads "a neighborly inventory;" a man handing a plate of food to a woman holding an infant; a horse pulling a wagon full of furniture and household items while a man sitting atop the pile, a small dog is chained to the wagon; a series of scattered items and a cat looking at them in surprise. Acompanies an article about the traditional moving month of May in the city of Chicago.

Publication date: 1897-04-25

Size: 24.2 x 30 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Household moving--1890-1900

Genre(s):

• Cartoons (Commentary)
• Humorous pictures

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (April 25, 1897), Part 5, p. 37

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• Rhodes