Sketches of the news

Five scenes from the news depict a variety of topics. Calvin Coolidge is depicted as a Native American chief (Big Chief Coolidge) smoking from a pipe, he wears a headdress with two feathers (1923 and 1924). The G.O.P. elephant points to a rooster (Dem. rooster) with a long feather (1928) and asks Coolidge if he should get another feather for him. Another image shows a dynamite stick (business boom) next to a box of matches (confidence). A third image depicts a car driver speeding (breaking another record), in the back seat, the Grim Reaper (1927 death rate) yells to go faster. A fourth image, "the bulldowgging contest at Geneva," depicts a man (naval disarmament parley) holding on to a longhorn bull (John Bull's naval superiority). A fifth image depitcs a man in a suit and tophat (European debtor nation) sitting atop a flag pole ($ Unpaid Debts), below a crowd looks at him and comments "He hasn't moved in 9 years."

Publication date: 1927-07-07

Copyright date: 1927

Size: 18.4 x 15.8 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Republican elephant (Symbolic character)--1920-1930
• Business & finance--United States--1920-1930
• Traffic accidents--United States--1920-1930
• Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
• Politics & government--United States--1920-1930
• Arms control--1920-1930
• Public debt--Europe--1920-1930
• Ethnic stereotypes--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 (July 7, 1927), Section One, p. 8

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• Orr, 1890-