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An over-sized female figure labeled “Law” points with her left hand to a sign that states “Contagious diseases must be reported to the Board of Health” and holds in her right hand a little old man labeled “Chr. S. Healer” who is holding a book labeled “Science and Health.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-11-19
This vignette cartoon depicts, at center, the current “craze” for “Free Silver,” showing Uncle Sam riding a silver rocking horse. Surrounding vignettes show him participating in several fads “Past and Present,” such as the “Blue Glass Craze” after A. J. Pleasonton’s discovery of the properties of blue light; the “Prohibition Crusade”; the “Roller-Skating Craze”; a puzzle craze in the 1880s including the “Fifteen Puzzle,” with 15 sliding blocks in a square box, and “Pigs in Clover,” a “rolling-ball dexterity puzzle”; the “Paderewski Craze” around 1891 for piano music by Ignace J. Paderewski; the cycling craze, which has not yet ended; and the “Schlatter Craze,” which did come to an end with the disappearance and death of faith healer Francis Schlatter.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-07-29
An elderly physician holding a box labeled “Old School Drug Cure” sits with bottles of various drugs labeled “Opium, Strychnine, Calomel, Morphine, Arsenic, Poisons, [and] Squills” in front of a crowded “Chockful Cemetery.” A younger man stands in the street, holding a large book labeled “New School Mind Cure,” with a sparsely populated cemetery labeled “No drugs Cemetery” behind him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-04-06