Camera-ready drawing, entitled "The New Photographic Idea".
date: label: date made
content: 02/05/1094
label: date made
content: 02/05/1904
name: label: original artist
content: McCutcheon, John T.
label: publisher
content: Tribune Printing Company
notes: label: Description
content: John T. McCutcheon (1870-1949) was a Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist, known for his political cartoons and fascination with technology, particularly aviation. This drawing is in two parts. In the top panel, archeologists look at the Rosetta Stone with magnifying glasses. "This is the way we have gotton our records of things that happened 3,000 years ago." At bottom, tourists look at signs about preservation buildings, which are meant to last forever. "This is the way posterity, 3,000 years hence, will get its records about us." Typed note, "February 5, 1904, The New Photographic Idea for Preserving History with Text."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. John T. McCutcheon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.24180
label: catalog number
content: 24180
label: accession number
content: 1976.320859
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: Drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 49.3 cm x 36.1 cm; 19 7/16 in x 14 3/16 in