Curtis, George William, 1824-1892

Columbia stands with Puck’s figure for the “Independent” party/vote and Puck who is holding a design drawing for a statue labeled “Reform,” which is under construction behind them by “D. W. Everett, Rev. J. F. Clarke, Beecher, Col. The. Lyman, Schurz, H. White, G. F. Williams, Curtis, [and] Jones.” The building blocks are labeled “Scratchem 1879, Anti-3rd Termism 1880, Tidal Wave Elections 1882, Civil Service Reform Bill, [and] Republican Revolt 1884.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-11-05

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

Puck reclines before a table covered with alcoholic beverages, some labeled “V. H. Dusenbury’s P.P. Brandy” and “Puck Punch [No London Punch],” smoking and blowing smoke rings. Among the figures appearing in Puck’s smoke cloud are Chester Alan Arthur labeled “For a Good Veto” and fishing for “Popularity”; George M. Robeson at the helm of a boat carrying a large money bag labeled “Appropriation”; Jay Gould, Russell Sage, and William H. Vanderbilt sailing on a boat labeled “Monopoly”; Susan B. Anthony and another woman, George William Curtis labeled “Civil Service Reform,” Roscoe Conkling, Jay A. Hubbell labeled “Deform,” Ulysses S. Grant labeled “No Third Term,” David Davis, Robert Green Ingersoll boxing with Thomas De Witt Talmage, James Gordon Bennett, “Old Rossa” with “Dynamite,” Cyrus W. Field trying to net a “Coronet,” John Kelly and Samuel J. Tilden on a seesaw, William Russell Grace standing on a rock labeled “Public Esteem” with Seth Low trying to climb up, and James Russell Lowell on a “British Mission.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-08-09

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

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