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Two kinds of fool Americans

Two kinds of fool Americans

Puck stands between two types of Americans depicted on large sheets of paper. On the left are “The Jingoes” identified as “Reid, Frye, Hoar, [and] Lodge” among others. Reid carries a flag that states “We Will Stand No Nonsense from Tyrannical England!!! Our Blood is Always Boiling.” Atop a tall pedestal is an effigy of John Bull with an eagle labeled “U.S.” perched on his chest. On the right are “The Anglo-Maniacs” who prostrate themselves before everything British, such as “English Clothes, English Manners, English Fiction, English Lord, English Actor, English Butler,” even “‘is Royal ‘ighness.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-04-24

Creator(s)

Hutchins, Frank Marion, approximately 1867-1896

The Tammany Fagin and his pupils

The Tammany Fagin and his pupils

John Kelly stands at the far end of a room, as Charles Dickens’s character Fagin, wearing a robe with a “Tammany Fund” money bag in a pocket. He is rubbing his hands together as a show of satisfaction. In the center of the room hangs an effigy labeled “N.Y. Tax-Payer” with three men labeled “Register, County Clerk, [and] Sheriff” who are learning to be pickpockets and have their hands in pockets filled with money. A notice hangs on the wall on the left, “Graduates of this School are sure to make from $50,000 to $80,000 a Year.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-02-06

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Monopoly in Hades–How the place will be run, two years after Jay Gould’s arrival

Monopoly in Hades–How the place will be run, two years after Jay Gould’s arrival

Illustration showing Jay Gould as the Devil holding a paper labeled “Majority of Stock”, standing outside an office labeled “Successor to Satan”; he is presiding over the “Hades & World Lightning Transportation Line” which is a railroad train headed for a station labeled “Terminus – President Jay Gould.” The locomotive is labeled “Crasher” and uses “Brimstone” for fuel, a passenger car is labeled “Only Anti-Monopolists Carried,” also the “Sulphuric Telegraph Co. – Gould Pres.” which has many devil-like demons stringing wire cables on telegraph poles and an office where telegraph operators work at desks beneath a sign that states “Any Imp who attempts to strike will be transferred to the Western Union Company”, as well as “The Bottomless Pit Roasting Co. – Jay Gould, Pres.” where an “Anti-Monopolist editor”, “Puck”, and “Thurber” are roasted “in effigy.” At bottom, a man labeled “Satan Janitor”, with bandages, carries a scuttle filled with brimstone, a watering-can labeled “Kerosene”, a broom, and a key ring, skulks down the steps from Gould’s office. Caption: How the place will be run, two years after Jay Gould’s arrival.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-09-19

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937