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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
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Inventory of the Carey Orr Cartoons, 1915-1937
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Shannon Yule, 2007. ©2007. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Orr, 1890- |
| Title | Carey Orr cartoons |
| Dates | 1915-1937 |
| Extent | 1 linear foot (1 oversize box) |
| Abstract | Sixteen political cartoons by Pulitzer Prize winning-artist Carey Orr. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Orr |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 41 2 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Carey Orr Cartoons, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Provenance unknown.
Processed by
Shannon Yule, 2007.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access
The Carey Orr Cartoons are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Carey Orr Cartoons are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Carey Orr
American editorial cartoonist, 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Carey Orr was born in Ada, Ohio on Jan. 17, 1890. Interested in cartooning from a young age, Orr used money earned as a semi-professional baseball pitcher to enroll in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After completing his arts training, Orr began his journalism career at the Chicago Examiner, and in 1914, joined the Nashville Tennessean as a full-time editorial cartoonist. Having established a national reputation by 1917, Orr went to work for the Chicago Tribune, where his political cartoons appeared on the front page until he retired in 1963. Orr’s subjects included organized crime, government corruption, prohibition, communism, and the New Deal.
In 1918, the United States Government awarded him a gold medal for his World War I drawings and in 1960, Orr was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon that warned of the spread of communism to the African Congo.
Orr married Cherry Maud Kindel on March 25, 1914, and they had two daughters, Dorothy Jane and Cherry Sue. He died May 16, 1967.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
This collection consists of sixteen original political cartoons dating from Orr's early career, concerning World War I, the Depression, crime in Chicago, and free speech.
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Arrangement
Materials arranged chronologically.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Orr, 1890-
Subjects
- Cartoonists -- United States
- Editorial cartoonists -- United States
- Editorial cartoons -- 1901-1950
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons
- World politics -- Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 20th Century
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | The Great Wall, 1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | His Religion, 1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Two Viewpoints, 1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | And it's about time somebody's doing something about it, 1925 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Hail to the King, 1925 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | He's a Sheepherder, 1925 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | A Blessing in Disguise, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | The Flag Bearers, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Gunless Gunmen, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Spirit of 1917, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | It would be a shame to pull him off when he's doing so good, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Why Ten Million People are Still Idle, 1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Ho-Hum, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Oil or Water, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | The Psychopath, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Trying to sit through one of those slow motion features, n.d. | |||||||||
Related Material
Syracuse University holds a significant collection of cartoons by Carey Orr.
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