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The unwelcome light / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

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The unwelcome light / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

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Illustration shows Puck directing a large floodlight to illuminate a cave Charles H. Dietrich, Joseph R. Burton, and J. Edward Addicks shying away from the light, Pennsylvania governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, as a court jester, holding up a large sheet of paper labeled "Press Gag Law", a man running to the right, holding a paper labeled "R.R. Rebates", and another man, possibly John D. Rockefeller, next to containers labeled "Paper Trust, Oil Trust, [and] Gas Trust", and a diminutive figure, possibly N.Y. State Senator Thomas F. Grady, standing behind Pennypacker, and holding up a paper labeled "Anti-Cartoon Bill". An octopus labeled "Mormonism" is visible in the light on the left.

Illus. in: Puck, v. 56, no. 1456 (1905 January 25), centerfold.
Copyright 1905 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

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01/01/1905
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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist
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