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Atlas Joe; or, the fearful responsibilities of a self-appointed manager of the universe

Newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer, as Atlas, supports a globe labeled “American Affairs, English Affairs, African Affairs, Cuban Affairs, [and] South American Affairs” on his back. He is sitting at a desk, drafting “Instructions to Congress,” and handing a “Telegram to Prince of Wales” to a messenger boy. On the floor around him are other communications labeled “Program for the Senate, Advice to the Cabinet, Commands to Sec. Carlisle – Issue a Pulitzer Loan At Once!, How the Country Must Be Run, [and] Orders to Foreign Powers.” A notice hanging on the wall states “Our Motto – Sensation! Sensation! Sensation!!” Pulitzer is perspiring from the burden of his labors.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-01-29

Thanksgiving Puck 1910

A young boy sharpens a knife as he stands before a large turkey with its feet in stocks labeled 1910; the turkey is perspiring.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-11-23

Getting hot enough for him

Print shows Chester Alan Arthur sitting on a chair at a beach on the seashore, he is perspiring heavily and using a fan labeled “Stalwart Method” to cool himself, as the sun, labeled “Disunion-of-the-Republican-Party,” sets. As it sets the sun gives off rays labeled “Stalwarts, Independents, Anti-Monopolists, Half Breeds, Tariff Reformer, [and] Civil Service Reformer”.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-07-05

The only plumber busy in the hot season

A dejected and perspiring New York Governor David B. Hill, as a plumber, sits on a road between the “Irving Hall Democracy” on the right and the “Tammany Democracy [and] County Democracy” on the left. The road leads up a hill to the “Mugwump Head-Quarters” where there is a sign that states “No Connection with Machine Politics.” He is attempting to fit a connection labeled “To Connect with Mug-Wumps” that is hanging over his shoulder to a pipe labeled “Albany Main,” from which there are branches that extend “To Buffalo, To Rochester, To Brooklyn, To Tammany, To County De[mocracy], [and] To Irving Hall.” Caption: And he fails to make his principal connection.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-08-19

The base-ball Laocoon

Three baseball players are entwined by snakes formed of baseballs labeled “Base Ball Trust.” Each carries a “Contract,” one for $8000, one for $10000, and one for $12000 and also stuffed in his belt papers labeled “Bonds, Stocks, [and] Deed Oran[ge] Farm.” Caption: No class of labor feels the grip of grinding monopoly more than our underpaid, overworked ball-players.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-05-14