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The great spirit

The great spirit

A native man sits before a small fire in a wilderness setting, holding a long pipe, and with a red-striped blanket over his shoulders. He is looking back, with trepidation, over his right shoulder at a small airplane approaching (or encroaching) from the left.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-04-18

Philanthropist Andy’s latest

Philanthropist Andy’s latest

Vignettes show messages sent from various cities to philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, along with the scenic postcard views each is requesting: a mountain for Chicago, caves in Philadelphia (where the sun is too bright), a river connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, a fountain of beer for Milwaukee, a sun in Pittsburgh (where the smog is too thick for the natural sun to penetrate), a “Palm Beach” oasis for the Eskimos, and a “natural bridge” crossing the East River into Brooklyn, New York. Caption: His gift of a lake to Princeton suggests other deficiencies of nature which Carnegie may supply.

comments and context

Comments and Context

This double-page cartoon by L. M. Glackens is an example of Puck‘s increasing reliance of humorous current-event news commentaries, with vignettes surrounding a major theme.