"Keep pounding, Bill, we'll bust this thing up yet!"

Father Dearborn holds a nail in the ground (subway opposition which has been holding up traction development for the past 25 years) while Chicago Mayor William E. Dever attempts to push down the nail with a hammer (subway plan). Another hammer (first subway plan) lays broken next to the two men,and an incomplete railway can be seen unfinished.

Publication date: 1926-11-06

Copyright date: 1926

Size: 18.4 x 15.8 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Father Dearborn (Symbolic character)--1920-1930
• Politics & government--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930
• Dever, William E. (William Emmett), 1862-1929
• Mass transit--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930

Genre(s):

• Editorial cartoons
• Political cartoons

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 Daily Tribune (November 6, 1926), Section One, p. 5

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• Orr, 1890-