Puck Magazine Illustration - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A book with a picture of a man riding a horse, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Illustration shows several Republicans with presidential aspirations and/or delegates to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, and a young boy holding a pillow labeled "Stand-Pat Press", standing around King Canute on the seashore with cliffs at their back, as he commands the rising tide of "Tariff Revision" to halt.

Caption: King Canute and the rising tide.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 63, no. 1634 (1908 June 24), centerfold.
Copyright 1908 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.