Christmas Puck
Illustration shows rows of toys, dolls, teddy bears, soldiers and drummers, and trees.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-12-05
Your TR Source
Nankivell, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), 1869-1959
The college world
The sun, wearing a football helmet, beams rays onto a football-shaped planet that shows a stadium with fans in the grandstands and a football game in progress. In the background is the outline of a young woman’s head looking on.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-11-14
Uncle Sam’s boys, anglicized
Uncle Sam stands with a man from each branch of the armed forces wearing uniforms designed after the style of the British armed forces. Caption: G. V. Winter, the English military tailor, under contract with our War Department, says: “The Washington officials have given me a free hand. I hope to design something smart for the United States service.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-07-18
Reading his future
An old woman, known as “Madame Democracy Palmist,” reads William Randolph Hearst’s palm and speaks of the future. Caption: “You have reason to fear a large, dark man, who will shortly return from abroad!”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-06-27
The infant Hercules and the Standard Oil serpents
Theodore Roosevelt, as the infant Hercules, fights large snakes with the heads of Nelson W. Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-05-23
Uncle John
John D. Rockefeller, dressed up as Uncle Sam, admires himself in a mirror. Uncle Sam is sitting on the left in his underclothes with an eagle perched next to him. A much larger eagle labeled “Aldrich” is perched on a large “Oil” can to the right of Rockefeller.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-03-14
“Oh, Mother, may I go out to swim?”
Uncle Sam, dressed as a woman and holding a switch of bound rushes in his left hand, talks to a young girl labeled “Philippines.” They are standing on a beach with the water labeled “Free Trade in Tobacco and Sugar.” Caption continues: “Oh, yes, my darling daughter! Hang your clothes on the hickory limb, but Don’t You Go Near the Water!!!”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-01-24
The drill-master of the East
A Japanese soldier trains a group of soldiers of various nationalities and ethnicities, including Koreans.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-08-16
Puck fourth of July 1905
A crowd of people celebrate a spinning fireworks display showing the head of Uncle Sam at center.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-06-28
A voice from the past
The ghost of Louis XVI of France warns Nicholas II of Russia to not make a hasty decision regarding the “Petition” presented by a crowd at the Winter Palace, which was met by police gunfire and the deaths of many in what became known as Bloody Sunday. Caption: Shade of Louis. — Warily, Brother.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-02-08
Puck Christmas 1904
Santa Claus reviews his list, his bag of gifts next to him, while sitting in an automobile that is being driven by two women standing on the back, dressed like chauffeurs.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-12-07
The new boy, January 1, 1905
A young boy in uniform and cap labeled “1905” sweeps an office clean of many papers labeled “Yellow Peril 1904, Broken Resolutions, Dave Hill ‘I was a Democrat’ 1904, [and] St. Louis Graft 1904” and a large crown labeled “Imperialism.” Some papers labeled “Tom Taggart, [and] Campaign Oratory 1904” are already in the wastebasket.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-01-04
Unconditional surrender
Meiji, Emperor of Japan, and Nicholas II of Russia, kneel before the female figure of “Peace.” Caption: When, your Majesties?
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-01-18
Let in the light
Nicholas II, wearing crown and royal robe, draws the drapes over the window to shut out the sun labeled “Progress,” as three ghouls clutch at him from behind.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-03-08
Campaign number
Columbia stands between President Theodore Roosevelt and Alton B. Parker, each kneeling on one knee, about to kiss her hands.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-10-12
Puck mid-summer number
A fashionably dressed young woman sits on the edge of a pool, fishing.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-08-17
Creator(s)
Never too late to run
Octogenarian Henry Gassaway Davis, as a runner, is attended by Arthur P. Gorman who is putting a bandage on Davis’s right knee.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-07-27
July 4th, 1904
Two female drummers play while a young woman bursts from a firecracker. The title “Puck” is formed from firecrackers.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-06-29
Hard lines
Two businessmen sit in an office discussing the success of the local trolley service. Caption: Visiting Magnate — Is your new trolley-line a success? / Local Magnate — Not as great as we hoped. Nearly half the passengers can get seats.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-01-27
Overworked
An artist offers a painting for purchase to a wealthy woman who has no real appreciation for “Art.” Caption: The Artist — It would be such an honor to have you buy my picture! / Mrs. Gotrox — Well, I’ll have my connaisseur look at it, but I don’t know when he can come. I’m buying so much Art just now that my connaisseur is frightfully busy!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-02-25