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The alderman’s alternative – to Sing Sing, or Canada?

The alderman’s alternative – to Sing Sing, or Canada?

A man, possibly Jacob Sharp or one of the aldermen he bribed, holds a carpetbag labeled “Broadway Street Car Boodle,” and looks up at a street sign pointing in two directions, to the left “To Canada” and to the right “To Sing Sing” where a policeman waits, holding a “Warrant Arrest.” A man on the left, carrying a similarly labeled carpetbag, is running toward the river where there is a sign labeled “Ferry.” Across the river are estates labeled “Chase, Stewart, Scott, Eno, [and] Mandelbaum.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1886-01-27

Creator(s)

Wales, James Albert, 1852-1886

Canada as “Mother Mandelbaum”

Canada as “Mother Mandelbaum”

Uncle Sam, dressed as a policeman, stands on the U.S. side of a “‘Fence’ for American Defaulters” and stares at Fredericka Mandelbaum who is standing on the Canadian side, dressed as a Native American, wearing a headdress labeled “Canada” and leaning on the “Fence.” Behind her, a man carrying a case labeled “R. S. Scott” tips his hat, and in the background are mansions labeled “Mandelbaum, Eno, [and] Stewart.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-06-17

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894