{"id":1483,"date":"2016-04-10T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T11:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2016-04-10T07:23:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T11:23:05","slug":"mccutcheons-1908-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/mccutcheons-1908-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"McCutcheon&#8217;s 1908 Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New York Times<\/em> graphics editor Tim Wallace <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wallacetim\/status\/710092960512266240\">stumbled across a 1908\u00a0<em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> cartoon by John T. McCutcheon<\/a> that&#8217;s older than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/mccutcheons-view\/\">other examples of &#8220;perception-based&#8221; maps<\/a> he was aware of.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Perception-based map genre is at least 30 years older than I thought it was. Finance Committee 1908 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagotribune?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chicagotribune<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bDnAjei8r6\">pic.twitter.com\/bDnAjei8r6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Wallace (@wallacetim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wallacetim\/status\/710092960512266240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/mccutcheons-view\/\">my previous entry<\/a> contained a link to a 1922 McCutcheon cartoon, which only moves the clock back only 14 years.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times graphics editor Tim Wallace stumbled across a 1908\u00a0Chicago Tribune cartoon by John T. McCutcheon that&#8217;s older than other examples of &#8220;perception-based&#8221; maps he was aware of. Perception-based map genre is at least&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/mccutcheons-1908-cartoon\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[378,419,418,417],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-cartoons","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-mccutcheon","tag-perception","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1310,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/mccutcheons-view\/","url_meta":{"origin":1483,"position":0},"title":"McCutcheon&#8217;s View","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Three\u00a0years ago, the Newberry Library posted a note\u00a0about a 1922 cartoon from the\u00a0Chicago Tribune: \"The New Yorker\u2019s Idea of the Map of the United States\" by\u00a0John T. 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