Caricature, A Happy new year!, public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows Uncle Sam offering a toast to American soldiers overseas, in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Hawaii, and China.
Caricature, An idea / Ehrhart., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows an actress and her manager sitting in an office. Caption: The Star I've had my diamonds stolen three times and been married four. Now, what else can I do? / Manager You might take lessons ... More
Caricature, The good samaritan / Kep., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt as a good samaritan offering a bottle labeled "Extra Session" to a fallen figure of rolled-up papers labeled "Cuban Reciprocity Treaty"; the U.S. Capitol is visib... More
Caricature, Hyenas at work / Gillam., public domain cartoon image
Print shows a pack of hyenas labeled "N.Y. Commercial, N.Y. Sun, N.Y. Herald, Washtn. Post, The Rosecrans Letters, [and] 306" crowded around a sepulchral monument to James A. Garfield labeled "Fame"; those hyen... More
Caricature, A sufficient reason / Ehrhart., public domain cartoon imag...
Print shows two governesses, each with a child, in the park; one woman is having trouble controlling a little boy who is frightened of a policeman standing in the background. Caption: Miss Dolan Oi'm a-goin' ... More
Caricature, Under one flag / C.J. Taylor., public domain cartoon image
Print shows William Jennings Bryan standing on a tree stump labeled "Demagogism" and waving a flag labeled "Repudiation", with an anarchist labeled "Dynamite" holding a "Bomb" and a torch, and standing on paper... More
Trying to float the old wreck / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan, standing in the "Presidential Sea", pulling on a rope tied to a shipwreck labeled "Democracy" which was "Stranded 1896" on rocks labeled "16 to 1", "Bryanism", and "Bo... More
Caricature, Their best friend / Keppler., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows a female figure labeled "Arbitration" standing between a laborer labeled "Strike" who is holding a bomb and about to throw a brick, with the words "Riot" and "Arson" appearing in the smoke bi... More
Two things he can't stop on sunday / Dalrymple.
Illustration shows an old man labeled "Sabbatarian Bigot" dressed as a Puritan, holding a book labeled "Blue Laws" and standing in front of "Niagara Falls." A man walking with his wife and child is suggesting t... More
July the 4th 1902 / L.M. Glackens.
Illustration shows Uncle Sam hugging a youthful John Bull on the Fourth of July cover, with firecrackers on both sides of the cover image and a remarque across the bottom showing a Revolutionary War soldier sen... More
Caricature, A sound sleeper / Keppler., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows Sir Thomas Lipton beating a hand-drum labeled "American Progress", trying to wake John Bull who is sound asleep in a chair.
A tidy job; but-- / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows New York City mayor Seth Low, as a lion tamer holding a whip, standing next to the Tammany Tiger which is bound in ribbons labeled "Civic Honesty, Fusion, Decent Government, Municipal Reforms... More
"Mark Twain," America's best humorist / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & O...
Print shows Mark Twain, full-length portrait, facing right, standing on stage, speaking to audience.
Puck magazine cover - Arthur's awkward "white elephant" / Gillam.
Print shows President Chester A. Arthur sitting on a rock with a large white elephant that looks like Roscoe Conkling standing next to him; Arthur is wondering how to get rid of the elephant. Uncle Sam, holding... More
Caricature, Our congressman / J. Keppler., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows a richly dressed man standing in the street in a neighborhood of lavish homes, with two large bags of money hanging at his sides, they are labeled " Profits as Attorney at Law" and "Profits a... More
"The Germans supported me nobly" --J.G. Blaine / F. Opper.
Illustration shows two men and Carl Schurz, holding hands and labeled "C. & H.", sitting on James G. Blaine who is lying on the ground wearing armor. Illus. from Puck, v. 16, no. 403, (1884 November 26), cover... More
New York's Republican "standard-bearer" / F. Opper.
Print shows Levi P. Morton with cane, holding a "Check Book", and his left arm around a standard that states "Down with the Iniquitous Democratic Party!! It has the Impudence to Tax Prosperity Instead of Povert... More
Caricature, American "rocks" / Ehrhart., public domain cartoon image
Print shows a well-dressed American woman carrying a hod full of moneybags toward a destitute British nobleman who is using her money to shore-up his castle and get himself back on a sound financial footing. C... More
The shade of Jefferson protests / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows David B. Hill standing on a platform, speaking to an unseen audience; he holds a paper that states "Jefferson! Jeffersonianism!! Jeffersonian Simplicity!!!" The ghost of Thomas Jefferson is t... More
Puck magazine cover - Setting the signals / Grant Hamilton.
Illustration shows Uncle Sam raising a red signal flag labeled "Big Crops" and "Prosperity" and a yellow signal flag labeled "Business" and "Confidence" over the U.S. Capitol building. In the background, delega... More
America's greatest Pecksniff / Keppler after Barnard.
Illustration shows a man described as "America's greatest Pecksniff", an allusion to Dickens' character Seth Pecksniff in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit. He stands, full-length, facing slightly right, holding a pa... More
Puck magazine cover - The "fixed" umpire / L.M. Glackens.
Illustration shows a baseball game between the "Ultimate Consumer A.C." and the "Monopoly Giants" where a "Giants" ballplayer is sliding head-first into a base and is being tagged out by an "Ultimate Consumer A... More