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Print shows John Bull standing on the left at an entrance labeled “India” and Uncle Sam standing opposite at an entrance labeled “Philippines” inviting men labeled “Germany, Russia, France, Italy, [and] Austria” to enter carrying bags, boxes, and bundles of products for export and trade. Caption: In spite of all agreements, this seems to Puck to be the only way it can ever be settled.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-31
Print shows Uncle Sam standing on one side of a street, in front of a store with a sign that states “Beware of All German Goods,” while William II, the German Emperor, stands on the opposite side of the street, in front of a store with a sign that states “Beware of All American Goods.” They are trying to come to an agreement to remove both signs. Caption: Uncle Sam / Emperor William–If you take down your sign I’ll take down mine.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-12
President Wilson is about to shoot a harpoon into an octopus labeled “Interlocking Directorates” that has a grip on his boat labeled “Business Freedom.” Uncle Sam is sitting at the back of the boat with a long pole.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-01-31
Print shows a female figure labeled “Cuba” on one knee appealing to Uncle Sam for a continued American presence in Cuba, as a means to prevent “Famine, Pestilence, War, [and] Revolt” and for providing “Prosperity” and “Peace,” and trade in such products as “Tobacco, Cigars, Sugar, Coffee, [and] Fruit.”
Caption: Cuba–If you leave me to myself it will mean the old troubles. With your help I can have peace and prosperity. Do not desert me!
A perplexed Uncle Sam stands in front of a store labeled “Notice – No Reciprocity in Trade Here” that is well-stocked with items available for international trade. A man labeled “Trade” is asleep at the counter. Across the narrow street of the marketplace sits Otto von Bismarck selling maps, and in the background are Nicholas II, holding a piece of paper that states, “Let us have Truce,” and John Bull shaking hands in front of their trade houses. A sign on the English shop states “Reciprocity in Trade.” A small dog, wearing a fez, stands in the middle of the street. Caption: Uncle Sam – “Darned if I ain’t left again! I’m overstocked, I’ve got all the blessings of a high tariff, and here these fellows won’t fight and give me a chance to sell my goods.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-05-20
Print shows Uncle Sam holding a “Trade Treaty with China”, standing on a “Map of China” in the midst of foreign rulers labeled “Germany, Italy, England, Austria, Russia [and] France.” Depicted are William II, Umberto I, John Bull, Franz Joseph I sharpening scissors at a grinding stone in the background, Uncle Sam, Nicholas II, and Emile Loubet, each with large scissors, intent on cutting up the map.
Caption: Uncle Sam (to the Powers)–Gentlemen, you may cut up this map as much as you like; but remember that I’m here to stay, and that you can’t divide me up into spheres of influence!
Print shows a vignette cartoon with a carriage at center in which Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and William H. Vanderbilt are riding with large money bags; the wheels are labeled “Corporations” and “Monopoly.” The carriage is driven by an eagle dressed like Uncle Sam wearing a top hat labeled “1882” and carrying a whip labeled “Revenue Tariff.” The carriage is pulled by an “Underpaid Workman,” a “Starving Laborer,” a “War Widow,” a “Sewing Girl,” an “Old Merchant,” a “Poor Clerk,” and a “Cripple,”among others, with ropes labeled “Tax.” The surrounding vignettes show scenes of corruption, misfortune, presidential office seekers, Valley Forge, and “Charitable Institutions for the poor and unfortunate” from “Maine” to “California” showing buildings labeled “Poor House” and “Jail.” Featured in these vignettes are such figures as Chester Alan Arthur, George M. Robeson, Samuel J. Tilden, Roscoe Conkling, John Kelly, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin F. Butler, and Joseph W. Keifer, as well as “Honest Labor, Patriotism, [and] Integrity.”
Uncle Sam and Liberty welcome a group of women labeled “Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, La Plata, Chili, Hayti, [and] Ecuador” to the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana. Excerpts from the “Republican National Platform” and the “Democratic National Platform” that warn against “entangling alliances” while promoting trade, particularly in the “Western Hemisphere,” frame the tableau.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-12-10
Uncle Sam is seated at a table in front of “Uncle Sam’s Inter-State Market,” with a businessman labeled “Northern Capital” on the right and an agricultural producer labeled “Southern Goods – Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Whiskey” on the left. Standing before the table are James G. Blaine labeled “Bloody Shirt,” and John Sherman, Whitelaw Reid, and Joseph B. Foraker, who all have long flowing hair and beards like Rip Van Winkle. Blaine is leaning on a rifle labeled “Shot Gun.” Two young African American men are sitting on a bale of cotton and a keg of “Tobacco” in the lower right corner, and in the middle ground African Americans are harvesting cotton. In the background, along the shores of a harbor, is a prosperous city. Caption: Uncle Sam “My fossil friends, the War ended twenty years ago. Have you been sleeping ever since?”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-09-16
A large ape with a human face wears a sheep skin as a disguise. Text on the side of the skin states “High Protection and Prosperity for American Labor and Capital.” The ape is wearing a hat labeled “Graftocracy” and its left foot is caught in a bear trap labeled “Lobby Exposure.” It walks with the aid of a staff through a landscape that is both wilderness and dotted with factories. Caption: The Brute with Brains – This disguise doesn’t seem to fool them the way it used to.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-10
A Native man stands on the shore of the Panama Canal with his burro loaded with local products, possibly sugarcane.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-07-09
Uncle Sam walks down a street in an unsavory neighborhood, with signs for such establishments as “Railroad Pool Parlor $1000.00 an Hour,” “Flim-Flam Bar,” “Impure Food Café ‘Coaltar & Glucose prop. Regular Adulterated Dinner 25 cents’,” “Harriman’s Place ‘All 5¢ Drinks 10 cents’,” “Rockefeller’s Rest ‘Free Hot Guff All Day’,” and even a sign for “Chop Suey.” Caption: His New Year resolution.
Surely one of Frank A. Nankivell’s best-drawn cartoons for Puck, this arresting cover drawing, with eye-catching perspective and a personality-intense Uncle Sam, is as much about the previous several years in America as it is about a “New Year Resolution.”
Four toll-takers labeled “Retailer’s Profit, Commission Broker’s Profit, Rail Road’s Profit, [and] Express Company’s Profit” stand on a bridge spanning a small waterway that separates the rural “Producer” on the right from the city “Consumer” on the left. Flying overhead is an airplane labeled “Parcels Post.” Caption: If you don’t like it, you know what you can do.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-12-13
Uncle Sam, as Rip Van Winkle, returns from his tariff sleep to discover that other countries now dominate foreign trade. His old rifle labeled “Monopoly Tariff” is outdated. John Bull sits with other representatives of foreign countries outside the “Inn of South American Trade.” In the background, steamships with flags of many nations unload freight. An insert shows a map and “The North Americans Idea of the Western Hemisphere.” Caption: Sam Van Winkle finds a lot of hustling strangers in his place at the inn.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-02-08
A man labeled “Protected Monopoly” lies on a bench in an Egyptian temple next to a large bloody sword labeled “Closed Mills” with which three man, labeled “Labor,” have been slain. Each lies next to papers labeled “No Orders the Prices Come Down, Cancelled Orders, [and] Consumer Balks.” At one end of the temple are the faces of “Sherman, Aldrich, [and] Payne.” In the distance are factories.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-02-15
The Roman god Mercury wears a hat labeled “Pan-American Union” and is draped in cloth the color of the American and South American flags. He points to a large globe showing “South America” and tells a group of mostly old men who are North American manufacturers that South America is ripe for exploitation. Caption: They jeer and scoff at him now as others jeered and scoffed at Columbus when he told them of a land to the west.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-03-29
A resolute Uncle Sam, as a soldier with rifle, stands on a pile of money bags labeled “Financial Interests in South & Central America.” Sleeping on the ground, using the bags as pillows, are men labeled “St. Petersburg, Wall St., Lombard St., Paris Bourse, Berlin, [and] Vienna.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-04-05
One large hand, labeled “City Tradesman,” has grabbed a family of four from another large hand, labeled “Country Hotel Keeper.” Caption: “Let go there! Give me a chance at ’em! You had ’em all Summer!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-09-20
A deer hunter labeled “Wickersham” holds a rifle labeled “Sherman Law.” A deer labeled “Restraint of Trade” runs off into the woods while a man labeled “Legitimate Business” holds his leg where Wickersham shot him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-01
Merchants ask the U.S. Navy to assist in ending the Panamanian blockade of Colombia’s ports.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-02