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The Tantalus of to-day

Uncle Sam as Tantalus is bound with ropes to posts labeled “High Protective Tariff” and “Free Silver Agitation” by two men labeled “Protected Manufacturer” and “Silverite.” The men are preventing Uncle Sam from satisfying his desire for “Prosperity,” depicted as a female figure holding a cornucopia, separated from Uncle Sam by an “Ocean of Politics,” and standing among factories spewing smoke along the waterfront.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-06-02

The tortures of Father Knickerbocker-Tantalus

Print shows Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, bound to a stone wall labeled “Ring Rule” by chains labeled “Partisanship,” tempted by a bunch of grapes labeled “Rapid Transit” hanging on a vine that is just out of reach.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-04-26

Tantalus

James Gillespie Blaine is pictured as Tantalus chained to a large rock labeled “Mulligan Letters” and standing on rocks labeled “Guano” and “Northern Pacific R. R.,” yearning to reach a table laden with food and drink labeled “Presidential Cake, Patronage, [and] Spoils.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-10-08

A modern tantalus

A man and a woman sit at a musical revue. The man is staring at a chorus girl who is temptingly standing in front of him. The man’s wife or girlfriend is looking at him with a concerned look on her face.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-03-01