While the commissioners quarrel the unfortunate suffer

Political cartoon shows woman who represents Chicago holding a broom and pointing toward Dunning Asylum, while looking at a group of men who are standing on a mat labeled "The murder of Pucik." Image relates to the murder of George Pucik and the declaration of George Gough and J. P. Anderson being unfit to be attendants at the Cook County Hospital for the Insane, also called Dunning Asylum.

Publication date: 1895-08-14

Size: 12.8 x 17.8 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: black and white

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Cook County (Ill.)
• Dunning (Chicago, Ill.)

Subject(s):

• Cook County (Ill.). Board of County Commissioners--People--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900
• Cook County Hospital for the Insane (Chicago, Ill.)
• Quarreling--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900
• Reform--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900

Genre(s):

• Cartoons
• 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 (August 14, 1895), p. 1

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• Heaton, Harold R.