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Uncle Sam’s hallowe’en

Uncle Sam’s hallowe’en

At center, Uncle Sam looks into a mirror while descending a stairway in a hall. “Swallow” and “Watson” are standing in the hall, holding candles. In the vignette at lower left, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Parker, and Davis, arrive in costume. On the lower right they are unmasked and engaged in a game with Columbia. On the middle left is “Bryan” as “An Old Timer,” and on the middle right “Taggart” and “Belmont” play a prank on an elderly woman with a “Bogie Man” labeled “Militarism.” At top left, bobbing for “Campaign Funds” are “Taggart, Bliss, Cortelyou, [and] Belmont,” and at top right “Odell, Shaw, [and] Hill” are “Jumping the Issues.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-10-26

Puck’s notion of the kind of fancy-dress charity ball that would be a real, solid financial success

Puck’s notion of the kind of fancy-dress charity ball that would be a real, solid financial success

At a costume ball, a band of newspaper editors labeled “Herald, Sun, Staats-Zeitung, World, Times, [and] Evening Post” is conducted by Puck. Among those present at the ball are James Gillespie Blaine, Whitelaw Reid, William Maxwell Evarts, Roscoe Conkling, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and John Kelly.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-01-28

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894