Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Cartoons in 1931, John T. McCutcheon was a forty-year veteran of the Chicago Tribune. McCutcheon's subjects ranged from politics to human interest, but he was widely known for his gentle depictions of rural life. The gift of Evelyn (Mrs. John T.) McCutcheon, the McCutcheon Papers at the Special Collections Research Center consist of more than six hundred original cartoons as well as books and pamphlets written and illustrated by McCutcheon.

An assortment of annual dinner programs for the Indiana Society of Chicago, including a 1940 souvenir booklet of cartoon tributes in commemoration of McCutcheon's seventieth birthday.

A Boy in Springtime, number one in a series of thirty-two seasonal postcards.

Congressman Pumphrey, the People's Friend (Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1907). This is a novel about political corruption in Washington written by McCutcheon and illustrated with his own cartoons.