Box 332

Scope and Contents Four 4-panel strips, all signed "King." The subject matter of all 4 strips involves newspaper want ads; the characters presented include Walt Wallet, Phyllis Blossom Wallet, and Rachel (their African American domestic servant). Phyllis cuts out a newspaper recipe for corn fritters, which Walt agrees to try; Rachel thinks that the cut-out item was an ad seeking a domestic servant, and scrubs the kitchen floor instead of just mopping it (1929)At work,...

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One 4-panel strip, signed by Gray and inscribed by him to Chesser Campbell. The story involves a newspaper want ad.

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Original drawing. The illustration shows Don Maxwell smoking a cigar and fishing in the Wabash River while reading "Hooser wit & humor"; inscribed "Merry Christmas from the old man"

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Editorial cartoons. This section includes material about editorial cartoonists working at the Tribune, and at other newspapers

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A Robinson-Crusoe-like figure labeled "The common people", crying "Police", runs away from a large figure labeled "The trusts" with dollar signs for ear ornaments, who says "Me likee you! Me be your Man Friday". A gun labeled "Anti-trust laws" lies unused.

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The drawing concerns the varying treatments accorded Gen. Edwin A. Walker and television host Jack Paar, as described in a Tribune editorial of 1961-09-08

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Original drawing. Nine panels showing events from Maxwell's life, each with a rhymed couplet, arranged around a portrait of Maxwell with a cigar. Signed "Parrish & Delos Avery"

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In the series "Something ought to be done about this!" The comment by a young man is addressed to his sleeping father, whose face is covered by a newspaper's comics section

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A woman sitting in a chair reading a newspaper says "Well! Didyou see this? They've not only printed your letter and written an editorial endorsing your views but printed a picture of you!!". A man sitting in another chair says "Possibly so! Possibly so!". In the series "Our secret ambition!"

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Editorial from the Boston Herald, not further identified. (Text begins "The managing editor is always before the court.") Inscribed on the verso "Tribune. Maxwell" and assumed to have hung at one time in Maxwell's office

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This series consists of information from and about the Chicago tribune. It contains information spanning the entire history of the Tribune, in all genres and formats, such as: internal documents; publications; photographs; information about policies, practices, staff and buildings; printing plates; plaques; awards; paintings; original artwork. Almost any research into matters connected to the Chicago...

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Cartoon of the newsroom, 1920s?

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Two color photographs. One shows the circular flower bed in front of the main entrance planted with tulips; the other with roses

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Label on verso: "Leo J. Weissenborn - Architect. Chicago. Stable for high-breed horses"