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What Show Have You Got, Little Man? [1908]

Posted: March 4, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a man wearing top hat and tuxedo labeled “Stock Manipulation”, one hand resting on a deck of “Marked Cards” and the other on a stack of gambling chips next to “Loaded Dice” and a wheel labeled “Brace Roulette”, all on a playing table labeled “Wall Str[eet]“, behind him are money bags and papers labeled “Fiduciary Funds, Treasury Deposits, Other Peoples’ Money, Bank Loans, [and] Pools”; standing in the foreground and looking up at the man is a diminutive man holding his “Savings” behind his back.

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The Campaign Issue [1912]

Posted: February 17, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows the Republican elephant labeled “G.O.P.” holding an empty “Dinner Pail” which he is asking a woman labeled “Mrs. Consumer” to fill, she is holding an “Empty Market-Basket” labeled “Tariff Tax on the Necessities of Life”.

Caption: The Republican Elephant Well, the campaign is on. Fill the Dinner-Pail for me. / The Woman in the Case You great big Gop! How can I give you a Full Dinner-Pail from an Empty Market-Basket?

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A Wall Street Cleaner [1884]

Posted: February 11, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a woman labeled “Legitimate Business” cracking a whip that spells “Crash”, driving a two-wheeled cart drawn by two horses with a large brush labeled “No Over-Certification Clearing House” attached, sweeping Wall Street clean of men labeled “Stock Jobber” and “Stock Gambler”.

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The Flies Got Wise [1913]

Posted: February 10, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a large spider labeled “Flim Flam Finance” with a disgruntled look on its face, sitting on a cobweb labeled “Wall Street”, looking at a bunch of flies labeled “The Public” hovering just beyond the cobweb, mocking the spider.

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Monopoly [1909]

Posted: February 4, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows on the left a cartoon drawn by L.M. Glackens that shows “The Trusts” as bloated, clownish figures that frighten “The Common People”, and on the right, a large gorilla-like monster with human head, holding Liberty in one arm and a large coin in the other, as it topples the dome on the U.S. Capitol with one foot.

Caption: For years the Trust has been pictured as this, – and laughed at. Why not know Him for what He really is – a Brute with brains?

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Wall Street Bubbles – Always the Same [1901]

Posted: January 30, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Caricature of JP Morgan as a bull blowing bubbles “inflated values”, for which a group of people are reaching.

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Liberty [1911]

Posted: January 26, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a large man holding a cat-o’-nine-tails labeled “Schedules” and wearing a crown labeled “Monopoly” shaped like the dome of the U.S. Capitol building with the statue of freedom, sitting atop a U.S. Customs building in front of which is a large pile of money being deposited by disgruntled citizens; standing to the right is a large Statue of Liberty pointing to the streams of citizens and laughing.

Caption: “It is to laugh!”

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A Needed Change in the Senatorial Lobby [1902]

Posted: January 18, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows a man labeled “Candidate for Senate” holding wads of cash, standing in front of a sign that states “Sale of seats to the United States Senate has been prohibited”, nearby the “Senatorial Box Office” has been boarded up and locked with a sign indicating “Closed”. Uncle Sam, as a police officer with a night stick labeled “Public Opinion”, is directing the man to the new entrance to the Senate, which is marked by the presence of a “Ballot Box” and a man labeled “Voter” standing next to the box.

Caption: Uncle Sam This way, Sir.

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“The Ultimate Consumer” [1909]

Posted: January 14, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows Liberty striding forward, carrying a flaming torch labeled “Revolution” and an American flag, wearing a phrygian cap with tricolor cockade, as she crushes underfoot a scepter and a crown labeled “Plutocracy”. In the background, buildings are burning.

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“Well, For Once They Can’t Blame Me” [1907]

Posted: January 12, 2012 in Puck 365
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Summary: Illustration shows the Democratic donkey labeled “Democratic Party” sitting among papers that state “The Trusts are to Blame”, “Harriman is to Blame”, “Wall Street is to Blame”, “High Finance is to Blame”, “Roosevelt is to Blame / Roosevelt is Not to Blame”, “Overcapitalization is to Blame”, “The Rail-Roads are to Blame”, [and] “Crooked Business is to Blame”. Many are blamed, but no one will accept the responsibility for the panic of 1907.

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