The universal question

This cartoon by John T. McCutcheon ponders whether famed aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, are alive or dead. Image has "Alive -- OR Dead?" as the caption. It shows a globe displaying the Pacific Ocean with a large question mark hovering it, to the left is a Lockheed Model 10 Electra twin-engine monoplane airliner resting on a beach, to the right an aircraft is sinking nose-down.

Publication date: 1937-07-06

Copyright date: 1937

Size: 18 x 15.2 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Pacific Ocean

Subject(s):

• Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
• Globes--1930-1940
• Lockheed Aircraft Corporation--Products--1930-1940
• Monoplanes--American--1930-1940
• Noonan, Frederick J., -1937
• Pacific Ocean--1930-1940
• Lockheed Model 10 Electra
• Aircraft accidents--Pacific Ocean--1930-1940
• Oceans--1930-1940

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 6, 1937), Section One, p. 1

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949