Camera-ready drawing, entitled "Dick Tracy".
date: label: date made
content: undated
name: label: original artist
content: Gould, Chester
notes: label: Description
content: "Dick Tracy", created and originally drawn by Chester Gould (1900-1985), features the title character, a crime-fighting detective ("dick" being a slang term for detective at the time of the strip's creation) unafraid of using violence as a means to end the city's vice. Begun in 1931, the strip continues to run in newspapers and comic books. This is an original artist drawing of Dick Tracy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Criminal Investigation
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22514
label: catalog number
content: 22514
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: Drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: artist board (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 73.8 cm x 58 cm; 29 1/16 in x 22 13/16 in