Camera-ready comic art drawing entitled "Don'ts for Aviators".
date: label: date made
content: 07/13/1911
label: date made
content: 09/13/1911
label: date made
content: 09/13/1912
name: label: original artist
content: McCutcheon, John T.
label: publisher
content: Tribune Printing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen and ink comic art panel drawing shows a cemetery with headstones outlining various dangers to aviators, such as drinking before flying.
label: Description (Brief)
content: John McCutcheon (1870-1949) was a popular political cartoon artist who got his start at the Chicago Record in 1889. In 1903 he moved on to the Chicago Tribune, where he worked until he retired in 1946. McCutcheon mostly used the single-panel format, but occasionally used strips for more involved messages, but always a self-contained story. McCutcheon prepared editorial cartoons for his entire career, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1932.
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 comic page shows a cemetary with headstones of various warnings and dangers to aviators, such as drinking before flying, performing tricks, etc. Two men in the background are digging a grave for an aviator "getting gay in an untried machine." At bottom in pencil, "Some pleasant advice for Friday the 13th." On reverse in pencil, sketch of a man walking in front of a large crowd in an auditorium.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Air Travel
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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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.24187
label: catalog number
content: 24187
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: Physical Description
content: pencil (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44.3 cm x 35 cm; 17 7/16 in x 13 3/4 in