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Bringing up father. "Mrs. Jiggs, your Uncle Alfalfa died in Australia and left you his entire fortune, it is over a million dollars!" GMcM
Summary
Four-panel comic strip in which Maggie learns that she has inherited over one million dollars. In the third panel she informs Jiggs, who is working as a laborer holding the scaffold for a painter, and in the final panel, after learning of their sudden wealth, he decides to quit his job, walking off as a painter crashes to the ground.
Signed in pen "GMcM" in lower right of final panel.
(DLC/PP-2003:133).
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Unprocessed in WOOD/Comicstrips/McManus
Tags
wealth
inheritance and succession
working class
comics
ink drawings
george mcmanus
drawing
uncle alfalfa
million dollars
ultra high resolution
high resolution
library of congress
public domain comics
historical photos australia
Date
01/01/1923
Source
Library of Congress
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