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In the interior of a cathedral filled to capacity, an enormous “$” is illuminated in the place of a rose window.
Anticipating Art Young’s famous center-spread cartoon in Puck a few years later (“Holy Trinity,” scoring New York’s Episcopal Church for its opulence even as it was a slumlord of tenements), this Carl Hassmann cartoon aims its scatter-shot at American culture and organized religion in general.
The Statue of Liberty has been knocked from its pedestal and is lying in the harbor. It has been replaced by a golden cow wearing a crown and a necklace emblazoned with a “$.” The illustration is captioned with a large question mark.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-03
J. P. Morgan lies at the edge of America with an American flag in his top hat, holding a large magnet in the shape of a dollar sign with which he is attracting precious objects of historical and/or monetary value to himself.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-21