The Orange knock out : political cartoon of John C.L. Fitzpatrick, secretary for mines and treasurer...
The Orange knock out : political cartoon of John C.L. Fitzpatrick, secretary for mines and treasurer...
The Orange knock out : political cartoon of John C.L. Fitzpatrick, secretary for mines and treasurer, and the coal strike, 1917 / unknown photographer and colourist
About this item
Full title
Date
1917
Call Numbers
P1/583
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photographic print - photograph 16.3 x 20.8 cm ; card (trimmed) 21.2 x 30.5 cm - hand couloured montage on card, lower right hand corner damaged
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : created before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Fitzpatrick is caricatured as a bird on a fence crowing over a bird laid out on the ground, presumably a union leader of the coal strike. The heads of the two "birds" are photographic portraits of the two protagonists and are uncoloured
Alternative Titles
Full title
The Orange knock out : political cartoon of John C.L. Fitzpatrick, secretary for mines and treasurer, and the coal strike, 1917 / unknown photographer and colourist
Variant title
The Orange knock out -- in ink in the centre of the image
Notes
General note
Transferred from P1/Fitzpatrick, J. C. L. (BM), February 2010
Digital order no:a4215082
Signature / Inscriptions
Cock-a-doodle-do - in a voice bubble coming from the bird on the fence
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Fitzpatrick was one of six Liberals chosen by W. A. Holman to form his Nationalist ministry on 15 November 1916; he became secretary for mines and on 30 October 1918 treasurer also; the government lost the March 1920 election. During a serious strike in 1917 he carried the controversial Coal Mines Regulation (Amendment) Act which permitted inexperi...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P1/583
Record Identifier
nQR2kjA1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQR2kjA1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
886792
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