[Distortograph: William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chicago]
Object type: Photograph
Department: Photographs
Artist: Herbert George Ponting|William Hale Thompson
Artist bio: British, Salisbury, Wiltshire 1870–1935 London|American, 1869–1944
Artist role: Artist|Person in Photograph
Artist nationality: British|American
Date: 1927
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 9.8 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 16.3 x 11.9 cm (6 7/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
Frame: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) (Framed with 2011.206, .207, .209)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2011
Accession year: 2011
Tags: Faces