"Don't sign that declaration, gentlemen! You'll hurt business!" / Ehrhart with acknowledgements.
Summary
Illustration shows a sketch after Trumbull's painting "The Declaration of Independence" with John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Thomson, standing around a table where John Hancock is sitting, as a businessman labeled "Spirit of 1908" rushes in from the left.
Caption: Where would we be now if modern counsel had prevailed in '76?
Illus. in: Puck, v. 63, no. 1618 (1908 March 4), centerfold.
Copyright 1908 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
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Date
01/01/1908
Contributors
Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937, artist
Trumbull, John, 1756-1843, artist
Source
Library of Congress
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