Clippings, correspondence, announcements, pamphlets, programs and other printed matter grouped into a variety of topics. Includes items regarding the publication of and payment for McCutcheon’s works, travel documents and correspondence, and materials about the numerous clubs to which McCutcheon belonged, such as the Indiana Society of Chicago and the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

McCutcheon was a world traveler and adventurer, even though until he was 18 he had never left the state of Indiana. He made his first trip to Europe with friend George Ade in 1895, and for the next 45 years he traveled extensively throughout the globe. Some travels were work related: he was sent by his employing newspapers as a correspondent to the Philippines for the Spanish-American War and Filipino Insurrection; to the Transvaal during the Boer War; and to France, Belgium, Greece, the Balkans (primarily Serbia), and Germany during World War I. Other times he traveled for pleasure and adventure, beginning with his 1897 trip to Asia preceding his stint in Manila, and including an African Safari, a “pirate cruise” to the Caribbean, and several trips around the world, the last of which was in 1935, accompanied by his wife and son John T. McCutcheon Jr. wherein most of the travel was done by zeppelin.

Folders related to his travels include ship's lists, bills, receipts of purchases made on travels, letters of introduction, permits, visas, temporary passports, press passes and the like; also entertainment programs and menus (many with his sketches and doodles inside), miscellaneous lists and notes, firsthand accounts (see also Works series), itineraries, newssheets and newspapers, and various printed souvenirs.

Of special interest is material from Europe during World War I. McCutcheon was a correspondent on the German side at the beginning of the War. In October, 1914, he sailed on the Lusitania from Liverpool, which was bombed 7 months later by the German Navy. From 1914-1916 he was in France, in Greece, and in the Balkans. He left in late 1916 and then returned in 1918-1919, spending time in Belgium, France, England, and Germany.

See also Series 12 (Photographs) for passports and photographs of his trips, and Series 13 (Scrapbooks).