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The snowbound elopement

The snowbound elopement

A young couple and their driver stand in the snow outside the door to a building where a “stag” party is in progress. They are being invited in by two men at the door.

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Comments and Context

By 1905 Puck magazine had evolved from an exclusively politics-and-humor journal to a humor magazine with doses of politics. Its politics were evolving from Democratic and Reform-minded to Radical and Democratic. Such is the profile of its priorities. Additionally, before it ended publication in the ‘teens it fashioned itself after many European journals — witty, edgy, “smart” social commentary, with painted artwork as well as cartoons.

The joyous ides of March

The joyous ides of March

At center, President Roosevelt shows Uncle Sam and Columbia a large plant with flowers showing the members of his cabinet. The surrounding vignettes show a springtime dance of putti, Alton B. Parker shoveling snow at his home in Esopus, an art gallery, Irishmen marching in the rain on Saint Patrick’s Day, a woman cleaning house by sweeping a dust cloud of policemen out the door, and Roosevelt grafting a branch labeled “Indian School Mission,” with blossom of an unidentified bishop of the Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions, onto the “Interior Dept. Tree.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-03-15

All his own

All his own

Uncle Sam pushes President Theodore Roosevelt, on a sled labeled “The ‘Teddy’ Flyer,” down a snow covered hill labeled “1905 to 1909.” In the background is a wrecked sled labeled “McKinley’s Policy.”

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Comments and Context

This issue of Puck was dated just days before Theodore Roosevelt’s inauguration to his second presidential term. That Puck, generally a Democratic journal, frequently had been partial to Roosevelt and his policies is seen by the favorable aura in the cover cartoon.