79 varieties. Depew: If I get out of these by the time I am 72 I will be able to do my real work in the Senate

Outside the U.S. Senate, New York Senator Chauncey Depew (1834-1928) holds open his topcoat, exposing several layers of coats labeled with various real estate, banking, insurance, railroad, and trust companies.
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Signed, lower right: Clubb / [club logogram] / '06.
Title inscribed in pencil below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.902)
The cartoon relates to a 1905 congressional investigation exposing Depew as a member of the boards of dozens of major corporations while still carrying on his duties as a U.S. Senator. It also revealed that he received sizable retainer fees from many of these companies, transactions viewed as gross conflicts of interest by his critics.
Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art, "The Great Game of Politics," 1972.