Bill, Boob McNutt, and Boob McNutt's Geography
Bill, Boob McNutt, and Boob McNutt's Geography
- Description
- Camera-ready pen and ink drawings by Rube Goldberg for his comic series Bill, Boob McNutt, and Boob McNutt's Geography dated June 10, 1934. Goldberg drew for the Bill series between 1931 and 1934, for the Boob McNutt series between 1915 and 1934, and for the Boob McNutt's Geography series in 1934.
- Bill tries to promote his product Thinneroo to overweight baseball players and inadvertently causes the batter's bat to become thinner and to break. Boob McNutt's Jelly Roll Bus Line takes passengers to what he thinks is Washington, D.C. Boob's Geography comic cell gives clues to the identity of a U.S. state.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Object Type
- drawing
- Date made
- June 10, 1934
- publisher
- Star Company
- original artist
- Goldberg, Rube
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Measurements
- overall: 73.8 cm x 58.3 cm; 29 1/16 in x 22 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 2006.0226.41
- catalog number
- 2006.0226.41
- accession number
- 2006.0226
- subject
- [NO SUBJECT]
- Washington D.C.
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Natural Resources
- Transportation
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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