Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

A merchant labeled “Dealer in Protected Goods” stands in a customhouse, with a whip which forms the words “Protective Tariff Bought from Congress.” A paper labeled “Bribe” extends from his pocket. Horrified travelers watch as custom officials search their luggage for contraband. Caption: Home-coming Americans must submit to these indignities as long as the favored merchant is allowed to retain his whip.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1901-09-25

The figure of Puck, the magazine’s mascot, points at two men and tugs at the robe of Justice, who is raising the blindfold from over her eyes and giving the men a stern look. One is a ruffian holding a bomb and a red flag labeled “Anarchy.” The other is a well-dressed editor or journalist holding a yellow flag labeled “Yellow Journalism” and newspaper sheets labeled “Incendiary editorials ‘The president is the creature of the Trusts'” and “Assassination is the only remedy,” and he carries a satchel with sheets labeled “Seditious Editorials.” The ground is strewn with newspaper sheets covered with quotes that condemn President McKinley. Caption: Puck. — Don’t forget that they are two of a kind – equally responsible for the death of our President!

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1901-10-02

Puck talks to a laborer who is sitting at home, on strike. Puck shows him a paper that states “Cost of the steel strike to the workingman $10,000,000.” Standing behind the man is a woman holding a baby. She is horrified. A man labeled “Walking Delegate” is looking in at the window. Caption: Puck (to Organized Labor). — The Chinese stop the pay of their doctors when they fall sick – why don’t you stop the pay of your walking delegate while a strike is on? It would save you a lot of money.

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1901-10-09

President Roosevelt, as a knight on horseback, carries a lance labeled “Reciprocity” and faces a giant ogre labeled “Infant Industries” and leaning on a club labeled “Dingley Tariff.” In the background on the left is a castle flying a banner “High Protection” and with a maiden labeled “Fair Trade” standing at the top of a tower. Caption: And so the knight promised to take up his late lord’s lance and carry on the fight.

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1901-10-16

Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, places a medal on Abram S. Hewitt in honor of his “Good Citizenship.”

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1901-10-23

President Theodore Roosevelt, wearing his Rough Rider uniform, stands with arms folded across his chest, looking at a hill labeled “David Hill.”

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1902-08-13

President William McKinley and Columbia, arm-in-arm, head for the inaugural ball.

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1901-03-06

Illustration shows Edward VII, King of Great Britain, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, with an insert showing “(Caricature of Louis XIV, by Thackeray) ‘You see at once that majesty is made out of the wig, the high-heeled shoes and cloak, all fleurs-de-lis bespangled….Thus do barbers and cobblers make the gods that we worship.’ –Thackeray.”

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1901-03-13

The spirits of alcoholism, opium dens, prostitution, gambling, and street crime, as well as the figure of Death, issue from a tenement house. Caption: Not only an evil in itself, but the vice, crime and disease it breeds invade the homes of rich and poor alike.

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1901-03-20

An oversized Abraham Lincoln, holding an ax, addresses a diminutive Rear Admiral William T. Sampson regarding the case of Gunner Charles Morgan’s efforts toward advancement in rank in the U.S. Navy. Caption: “Don’t you think, Sonny, that your ‘five o’clock tea’ rule might shut out some good men?”

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1901-03-27

Yale professor and university president Arthur Twining Hadley looks through a huge magnifying glass trained on a laborer labeled “Trust Employee.” However, what Hadley sees through the lens is a “Trust Slave” linked by a ball and chain to “Trusts.” On the ground, at Hadley’s feet, is a piece of paper stating “Dangers of trusts and imperialism. Prof. Hadley.”

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1901-04-03

A well-dressed woman, holding a fan labeled “Cuba,” accepts the arm of Uncle Sam rather than going over to a well-dressed Cuban man wearing a sash labeled “Revolution.”

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1901-04-17

A large female figure labeled “Enlightenment” pushes open doors labeled “Pan-American Exposition” and knocks out of the way an old woman labeled “Sabbatarian Fanatic” and a man labeled “Sabbatarian Bigot” who were attempting to prevent the Exposition from opening on Sunday. Caption: The managers of the Buffalo Exposition have decided to open it on Sunday.

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Creation Date

1901-05-01

Columbia and another woman, representing South America, ride side-saddle on a buffalo to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-05-08

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

J. P. Morgan as a stock-market bull blows bubbles labeled “Inflated Values” as many deluded investors reach for them.

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1901-05-22

Secretary of War Elihu Root holds up a lantern to illuminate a scene in an “Anti-Canteen Saloon” where soldiers have gone to drink and socialize in the absence of a canteen on the army base. It is over-run with drunkenness and violence. Caption: What the W.C.T.U. has effected by abolishing the army canteen.

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1901-05-29

An oversized Uncle Sam invites a horde of foreign citizens running up from the docks labeled “Foreign Trade” to shop at “The World’s Department Store. The Best Goods for the Least Money.” In the background, across the Atlantic Ocean, are John Bull and other angry rulers of European nations. Caption: Uncle Sam (to protesting rivals). — What are you going to do about it?

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1901-06-05

A female figure labeled “Arbitration” stands between a soldier labeled “Law & Order” and a laborer labeled “Strike” who is holding a bomb and about to throw a brick, with the words “Riot” and “Arson” appearing in the smoke billowing from a fire behind him.

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1901-06-12

William Jennings Bryan, holding a pitcher labeled “The Commoner,” pours water labeled “Editorials” into a paper crown labeled “McKinley’s Crown,” which is filled with holes and leaking water everywhere. The caption reads, “The Bryan Crown — It Won’t Hold Water.”

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Creation Date

1901-06-19

Independence Day fireworks spell out the word “Freedom” above an eagle forming the great seal of the United States hovering over a bird nest with four chicks labeled “Philippines, Cuba, Hawaii, [and] Porto Rico.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-07-03

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956