Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Whitelaw Reid, dressed as a woman holding a folding fan labeled “Tribune Windiphone,” stands on a beach with John Kelly who is wearing a swimsuit and bonnet. At his feet is a dead fish labeled “Magnetism.” In the background is a banner that states “Tammany Bathing Ground.” Caption: He (John Kelly) will again be drawn into the vortex of politics; and it is his nature to lead and not to follow. –New York Tribune.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-07-29

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

A policeman from the “New Chicago Anti-Monopoly Party” holds a broken nightstick labeled “Popular Support.” He is standing on a sidewalk at “Vanderbilt’s Monopoly Car Yard,” confronting a gang of monopolists that includes, among others, Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus W. Field, John Roach, Russell Sage, and an “Anti-Monopoly Grocery Monopolist” Francis B. Thurber. Gang members hold handguns and rocks. Puck, holding a club labeled “Only Support,” stands with the policeman. A flag that states “No Thoroughfare for Small Business Men” hangs from a building. An injured or dead man, identified as a “Small Business Man,” is lying in the street.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-07-18

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Print shows the interior of the “N.Y. Sun Editorial Rooms” where “Political Scandals [are] Promptly Attended to,” also “Post Mortem Scandals Especially Desired”, with elderly editor Charles A. Dana sitting at a desk, listening through an earhorn to Stephen W. Dorsey who is labeled “Public Contempt,” wearing tattered clothing, and with his left arm in a sling labeled “Acquitted by a Washington Jury.” Dana is transcribing “Dorsey’s Own Statement”; an inkpot on the desk is labeled “Gall.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-07-25

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

A large group of politicians, newspaper editors, Tammany Hall bosses, and others are dressed as Native Americans. One carries a banner that shows a crude drawing of the Tammany tiger labeled “Flathead Tribe.” The group is on a long march in opposition to President Cleveland’s civil service reform agenda. In the upper left corner is the “Blainiac Reservation” and in the opposite corner is Cleveland and his cabinet laying tracks for the “Reform R. R.,” keeping ahead of the “Administration Construction Train.” In the foreground, Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks is leading the Democratic donkey labeled “Bourbonism,” carrying two baskets, one with “Old Ideas” and the other labeled “The Perennial Pappooses” holding Charles A. Dana and Benjamin F. Butler. Standing just to the right is John Kelly carrying Philip H. Dugro in a cradleboard.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-08-12

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Print shows several men with brooms and shovels locked outside a fence with a large, spiked gate labeled “Civil Service Reform”, among them are Thomas F. Bayard, Samuel J. Tilden, Henry Watterson, Charles A. Dana, and John Kelly. Inside the fence, on the sides of the gate, are Chester A. Arthur and George W. Curtis. In the distance is the White House flying a flag that states “Possession is nine points of the law!!!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-08-15

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Print shows Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa spoon-feeding a promissory note that states “Pay the Bearer $5 When Ireland is Free” to an Irish servant girl labeled “Bridget”; on the floor between them is a hat labeled “Rossa” filled with golden eggs labeled “Money from Bridget”. On a table to the left is a large bowl filled with golden eggs labeled “Irish Contributions from Servant Girls”, and hanging on the wall at center are notices that state “Funds Wanted for Bleeding Ireland” and “Headqua[rters] of the Dynamite Coterie.” Broken eggs spill coins on the floor. Caption: Rossa “Begorra, we’ll never kill her while her appetite lasts!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-08-22

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa swings like a gorilla from an American flag and drops dynamite bombs on England.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-03-19

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Jay Gould appears as a giant holding a large club labeled “Monopoly,” sitting on rocks, gleefully watching a line of downtrodden people entering a cave labeled “Western Union Telegraph Company – All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here.” On the horizon, the sun is labeled “Strike.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-08-29

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Startled French soldiers in rice paddies confront an angry blazing sun rimmed with cannon barrels and bayonets, and stating “Population 500,000,000.” Signs labeled “Malaria, Disease, [and] Fever,” as well as Chinese soldiers also face them. Caption: China – “I will make it HOT for you!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-09-12

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937