MEL CUMMIN (1895-1980) comics "Governors Island in the Future." Editorial cartoon for an unidentified publication, likely the New York Sunday American or other New York publication, circa 1930. Pen and ink on Bristol board. 373x585 mm; 14 3/4x23 inches, sheet. Signed "Mel Cummin" in lower right image; captioned in blue crayon, upper margin, and editorial notations in lower margin. The cartoon depicts then-Congressman Fiorello LaGuardia's campaign to turn Governors Island, by then a defunct and run-down Army post an airport. Likely based on this: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/governors-island-airport-wasn-article-1.417383
MEL CUMMIN (1895-1980) comics "Governors Island in the Future." Editorial cartoon for an unidentified publication, likely the New York Sunday American or other New York publication, circa 1930. Pen and ink on Bristol board. 373x585 mm; 14 3/4x23 inches, sheet. Signed "Mel Cummin" in lower right image; captioned in blue crayon, upper margin, and editorial notations in lower margin. The cartoon depicts then-Congressman Fiorello LaGuardia's campaign to turn Governors Island, by then a defunct and run-down Army post an airport. Likely based on this: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/governors-island-airport-wasn-article-1.417383
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