The intemperate zone – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The title of this 1915 cartoon, "The intemperate zone," is a pun on the "temperate zone" of geography and on temperance, the movement against drinking that was gaining ground in American politics at the time. John T. McCutcheon, a longtime cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, drew it, and it was published in the New York Evening Mail on June 8, 1915. The catalog also tags it with World War I, a reminder that editorial cartoons of the period often mixed domestic reform debates with the war in Europe. A single witty phrase could carry a whole political argument, and this title shows how much work a pun could do.
| Created / published | c1915. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of drawing copyrighted by John T. McCutcheon in The Evening Mail, 1915 June 8. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons, U.S.; WWI; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,165 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157515 |
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