Men--Social life and customs

A.D. 1915 – with Puck’s apologies to the “coming woman”

A shabbily dressed woman addresses a man who is wearing an apron, holding an infant, and standing at the front door of his home. In the background, a dog with its tail between its legs enters a doghouse to hide. Caption: Dusty Maude–Is dere any lady-folks about de house? Timid Househusband–No-o – no, ma’am; they have all gone to a primary meeting. Dusty Maude–Den set out de best dere is in de pantry, an’ don’t do any screamin’, or I’ll clip yer whiskers!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-03-06

The phœnix-like “summer girl”

A female figure with wings rises from the flames of summer romances that are burning out as the season comes to an end. She leaves behind many broken-hearted men on the beach at a summer resort. Caption: She rises gayly from the ashes of her season’s conquests, to continue her deadly work as the “Winter Girl” of the near future.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-09-18

Social hypocrisies, and the painful scenes they save us from

This vignette cartoon shows men and women in various social situations where politeness overrides one’s actual emotional response, maintaining decorum and preventing a social disaster.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-01-26

The modern St. Anthony – and his terrible struggle to resist the temptations of the day

A well-dressed man is sitting in a chair, overwhelmed by opportunities to attend a “Last Bachelor ‘Blow Out’,” to go “See the Bogus Ballet” with its dancing girls, to go “to the Club and Join in a Quiet Game,” to “Spend a Night in Bohemia!”, to see an “Intellectual Vaudeville Show,” to go to “The Bal-Masque,” or to go “to the Hoo-Doo Athletic Club” for a boxing match.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-02-10

Puck’s labor-saving suggestion for Cupid’s summer work

Puck, at top center, manipulates an electric bow-shooting device, which sends arrows toward couples in the surrounding vignettes, where they are sitting beneath trees on the shores of a lake, riding bicycles, canoeing, swimming, boating, playing tennis and golf, and riding in a carriage. Caption: An electric arrow-shooting battery would beat the old-time bow, and […] the hearts of forty times as many victims, with neatness and despatch.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-08-19

The bridge crush

An attractive woman plays billiards surrounded by four dashing men offering her advice on how to approach a bridge shot. Caption: Expert advice on how to handle it.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-04-06

The path of least resistance

Young couples embrace or dance, and walk among a grove of trees at night.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-09-05

When the bloom is on the roof-garden

People dine at sidewalk cafes and dance at a hotel rooftop cabaret, while lovers stroll in the moonlight at Riverside Park. Raymond Crawford Ewer sketches from life New York 1914. Caption: Hotel-top and other views to show that the stay-at-home New Yorker is not to be pitied.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-08-22

Memories

An elderly businessman with his eyes closed dreams or reminisces of past affairs with young women who are clustered around and on his head, speaking in his right ear and caressing his cheeks.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-08-15

A live wire

A fashionably dressed young woman talks on a telephone with multiple lines that are connected to twelve men.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-08-08

On the road to Carlsbad

A formally dressed diminutive man stands on a dining table set for a banquet with dishes of fish, lobster, turkey, oysters, other foods, and bottles of alcohol blocking his path. Three attractive women in a large goblet extend glasses of wine, beckoning him to come to them. He has taken a step forward and wavers from fear or trepidation.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-07-25

Lady fingers

A tall beautiful woman with red hair, wearing a long green dress and a headband with a feather, holds up her hands where perched on her fingers are several diminutive male figures who are courting her with bouquets of flowers, bags of money, by serenading her, appealing to her, and even by threatening suicide.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-07-25

Goldfishing

A well dressed man with a crown on his head sits on the edge of a fishbowl, dangling a crown from a fishing pole among three beautiful young woman as goldfish.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-07-11

The trysting place

Two elegantly dressed women sit in a stylized environment, waiting for two men who are walking up a path toward them.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-04-04

Head winds

A well-dressed couple walks together on a windy day. Many wind-blown hats fill the air around them, yet they manage to keep theirs in place.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-03-07

At the play

A woman and a man sit in chairs at the theater. Caption: “Eyes have they, but they see not.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-01-31

Greeting the trail of the lonesome pine

Two well dressed men wearing top hats admire a beautiful young woman wearing a fur-trimmed red shawl and a hat with a small pine bough attached. Includes a lengthy notice “from Puck’s new management to Puck’s old friends!” about planned improvements for the future of the magazine.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-01-14

Conserving her natural resources

A young man and a young woman are ice skating. The man tries to kiss or embrace her, but she deftly uses her muff to block his advance. Caption: Vigorous opposition to grasping monopoly.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-02-16

“Safety first”

A steely-faced young man drives an automobile, looking straight ahead. A beautiful young woman snuggles next to him, looking up at him.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915-01-02

Obeying instructions

A young man is at the wheel of a sled, racing down a steep mountainside in winter. Sitting behind him are another young man and a young woman who are holding each other in an embrace. Caption: Man at the Wheel — Hold tight back there!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-12-12