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George Ade papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSA 4

Scope and Contents The George Ade papers (1878-1947; 29 Cubic ft.) document the personal and professional life of author, humorist, and playwright George Ade. The collection includes original writings, manuscripts, personal correspondece, photographic materials, and artifacts. Notable persons include: John T. McCutcheon, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington, James Whitcomb Riley, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Elsie Janis, Theodore Dreiser, "Chick" Evans, Orson Welles, Kin Hubbard, Theodore...

Dates: 1878 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1943

Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Bruce Rogers papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSA 35

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, examples of work, photographs and ephemera relating to the life and career of typographer and book designer Bruce Rogers.

Dates: 1889-1957; Majority of material found within 1900s-1957

Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Ernest A. Bureau scrapbooks

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSA 285

Abstract

Scrapbooks containing clippings from Purdue Alumnus, Purdue Engineering Review, and Purdue Engineer

Dates: 1919 - 1932; Other: Date acquired: 12/05/1954

Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Indiana Society of Chicago

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSP 132

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one folder which contains five items from the Indiana Society of Chicago.

Dates: 1911 - 1939

Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Injun Summer Wood Block Printing Plates

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSR 13

Scope and Contents

Two wooden printing blocks used to print the Injun Summer cartoon by John T. McCutcheon.

Dates: undated

Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

John T. McCutcheon cartoons and drawings

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSA 1

Scope and Contents The John T. McCutcheon Cartoons and Drawings (1903-1945; forty-two oversized boxes) consist of drawings and sketches created by John McCutcheon throughout his career at the Chicago Tribune, as well as some print versions of his cartoons. The cartoons cover a wide variety of subjects relating to United States history, documenting daily life and political matters from the early 1900s through the 1940s. Some of the many subjects include: railroads, Woodrow Wilson, Uncle Sam, John Purdue, Purdue...

Dates: 1903-1945

Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

John T. McCutcheon papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSA 278

Abstract Sketches, Purdue-related documents, and information files about McCutcheon's cartoons. Box 11: McCutcheon's handwritten account of the origins of Injun Summer and The Hunter's Moon (original pencil notes in JTM's hand); McCutcheon's handwritten account of the origins of Bird Center cartoons (original pencil notes in JTM's hand); Prints (reproductions) and newspaper clippings of some of McCutcheon's popular cartoons, circa 1930s; Sketches, original pen and ink drawings for Ade's Pink Marsh,...

Dates: 1897-1979

Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections