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The Dingley millennium - it has made everybody happy / Dalrymple.

Print shows a vignette cartoon with Marcus Hanna at center wearing robes labeled "Marcus Aurelius Hanna" and a top hat with laurel wreath and ribbons labeled "Senatorship 1898", standing next to a safe labeled ... More

A pretty high bar to clear / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows a group of republicans trying to push, pull, and coax the Republican elephant labeled "G.O.P." to jump a hurdle on a race course; William B. Allison stands on the far side of the hurdle, Phil... More

The toll-takers / K. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows four toll-takers labeled "Retailer's Profit, Commission Broker's Profit, Rail Road's Profit, [and] Express Company's Profit" on a bridge spanning a small waterway that separates the rural "Pr... More

"And John, he pays the freight" / F.M. Hutchins.

Print shows Queen Victoria holding up an infant labeled "Little New Duke of York. Christening Robe Cost £300." She presents the baby to John Bull who is holding a paper that states "Heavy Expense Account - Roya... More

He did it all / F. Opper. - Victorian era public domain image

Print shows a vignette cartoon with President McKinley standing at center holding a hat labeled "Inexhaustible Prosperity Hat" and a magic wand, behind him are "Joshua" and "Moses" who has beams of light emanat... More

[The Georgia Negro] Income and expenditure of 150 Negro families in At...

Bar graph shows amount spent on rent, food, clothes, taxes, and other expenses by families in various income brackets. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro ... More

Liberty / K. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a large man holding a cat-o'-nine-tails labeled "Schedules" and wearing a crown labeled "Monopoly" shaped like the dome of the U.S. Capitol building with the statue of freedom, sitting atop a... More

War atrocities / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon struggling to find humor in war with a "Metropolitan Opera Star" greeted with applause by the enemy; a woman fretting over the escalating cost of perfume; a young student f... More

The pit and the pendulum - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a man labeled "Consumer" tied to a bed with cords labeled "Graft Tariff", watches as a pendulum labeled "Cost of Living" with a sharp blade afixed to the bottom swings over his body, coming c... More

"The ultimate consumer" / Keppler., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Liberty striding forward, carrying a flaming torch labeled "Revolution" and an American flag, wearing a phrygian cap with tricolor cockade, as she crushes underfoot a scepter and a crown labe... More

Doctor's orders / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a man labeled "Trusts" sitting at a table spread with large dishes of food for a Thanksgiving Day feast, including a large turkey labeled "Restraint of Trade" and a bowl of soup, from which h... More

In the name of labor / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a gigantic man wearing a crown labeled "Protected Monopoly" holding upright a wooden figure of an American laborer labeled "Protected American Labor" and a sign that states "Protection Mainta... More

Wall Street and the nouveau poor / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with a bird's-eye view of Wall Street where an innocent lamb is standing in the middle of the deserted financial district. The surrounding vignettes show a banquet of hot d... More

We've all got to retrench! / F. Opper.

Print shows how members of the upper class have made efforts to cut-back during the business panic of 1893; vignettes show a clothing auction of dresses worn by socialites, former streetcar-horses finding a sec... More

America's partisan "patriots" / C.J. Taylor., Political Cartoon

Print shows Benjamin Harrison pointing to himself, John Sherman with a sign that states "The Sherman Bill Did It!", William McKinley holding a sign that states "The McKinley Bill Did It!", and Thomas B. Reed po... More

The consumer's only chance / Frank A. Nankivell.

Illustration shows a woman mooring an airship to the chimney on the roof of her home by the light of a full moon; on board the airship are "American Goods Bought in England" that are being smuggled into the U.S... More

From producer to consumer / Keppler., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows two men, one labeled "Producer", using a pulley system labeled "U.S. Parcels Post" to ship a package labeled "Direct to Consumer" beyond the reach of a man labeled "Express Co." straddling a ... More

The rising waters / Hassmann., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Illustration shows a man, woman, and infant wearing ragged clothing labeled "The American Middle Class", sitting on a rock labeled "Opportunity" above the rising waters of "Centralized Wealth" in which sharks a... More

The fountain of taxation - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a large fountain with four basins, at top, supported by a crown and scepters, is a basin labeled "Millionaire", next resting on a cornucopia is "Well-To-Do", then the "Middle Class" basin sup... More

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall-- / Frank A. Nankivell 1910.

Illustration shows a smug-looking Humpty Dumpty labeled "Increased Cost of Living" sitting on a stone wall labeled "Corners in Food Stuffs, Graft Tariff, Gambling in Futures, Cold-Storage Abuses, High Tariff Ra... More

III - The automobile mechanic. "And they get away with it" / R.L. Gold...

Illustration shows a six panel comic strip about a couple out driving an automobile, they decide to take the car to a repair shop to have the horn adjusted; the mechanic begins to dismantle the car, telling the... More

Caricature, Buena es la libertad, pero..., public domain cartoon image

Bi-weekly broadside shows four unsigned political cartoons: three ridicule Nazism and one comments on the low salaries and high rents in Mexico and how rents rise as new wars and skirmishes occur worldwide. Ado... More

The United States abroad / Hassman̄., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows the American Ambassador standing at the head of a dinner table around which are seated the heads of state of several European countries and China, offering them baked beans and "Ice Water" fo... More

Aladdin and the wonderful lamp / K.

Illustration shows a man labeled "Consumer" rubbing a lamp labeled "Tariff Question" from which a genii has emerged labeled "Wilson". Caption: The Genii What are my lord's commands? / Aladdin Reduce the cost... More

The overcrowded raft / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows many young women trying to find space on a raft labeled "Living Wages" in a stormy sea labeled "Sea of Want" that is infested with sharks labeled "Prostitution" and "Disease"; a ship labeled ... More

Puck magazine cover - Discharged as cured / Albert Levering.

Illustration shows a man labeled "Consumer" walking with crutches labeled "Free Oil" and "Free Hides", and heavily wrapped with bandages labeled "Free Valerianic, Free Cerium, Free Acorns, Gambier, Fossils, Fre... More

George Woodward - Too much on it / K.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam's Christmas tree about to topple over onto him because there are too many heavy ornaments near the top, such as a red devil labeled "Politician", a cannon labeled "Sherman Law", a j... More

Rescued? Nothing doing in the mercy line from the Bluebeard of bankrup...

Illustration shows Bluebeard wearing a hat labeled "Bankruptcy" and holding in his raised left hand a clock labeled "Obligations"; he is holding a sword in his right hand and is confronting a woman labeled "Rai... More

Miss Edith C. Strauss - Public domain demonstration photograph

A group of women standing around a drawing of a cow. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

No rioters need apply! / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows an "Honest Laborer", with a "Savings Book" in his coat pocket, and his family sitting around a table at dinner and an agitator who is trying to incite him to adopt the violent practices of anarchy. ... More

"Whither are we drifting?" / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with, at center, the father of four children is buried beneath their "Graduation Bills"; the children are shown in separate illustrations surrounding him, "Gladys, aged 6" ... More

Quin, Percy E., 3/26/20 - Public domain dedication image

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" - more fun for the spect...

Print shows Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus Field, Russell Sage, and John Roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled "Knights of Labor" and "Pittsburg Free Strikers" who are watching a ... More

The physician of the period / Dalrymple.

Print shows an elderly physician sitting in a chair in an office, hanging on the wall is a fee schedule labeled, on the left, "Ailments for People of Moderate Means. Low Fees" and on the right, "Same Ailments f... More

Uncle Sam's income / L.M. Glackens., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a customs officer placing a tax stamp on an American heiress, also vignettes showing some suggested ways of generating revenue, such as taxing "poodles and other precious pups", people who te... More

[The Georgia Negro] Family budgets. - Exposition Universelle Internati...

Chart shows income and expenses for African Americans working eight different occupations. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Sect... More

Our merchant marine, the Rip Van Winkle of the sea / Kep.

Illustration shows Rip Van Winkle, his beard long and his clothes tattered, asleep near an abandoned ship building yard, an overturned jug labeled "High Protective Tariff" at his side and a sign behind him that... More

The monitors and the Merrimac / K.

Illustration shows a battered ironclad labeled "High Cost of Living" being bombarded by several ironclads labeled "Berger, Shanks [sic], Sulzer, George, Jr., [and] Taft", their gunblasts labeled, respectively, ... More

The trusts - the tariff - the nigger in the woodpile / J. Norman Lynd.

Illustration shows Woodrow Wilson pulling a leg labeled "The Tariff" that is caught in a woodpile labeled "The Trusts". The Democratic donkey observes from the far end of the woodpile. Title transcribed from it... More

The opening of the parcels post tunnel, January 1, 1913 / Kep.

Illustration shows that a freight train has departed a railroad station labeled "Producer" in the countryside and is passing through a tunnel labeled "Parcels Post Tunnel" in a mountain labeled "Mount Middleman... More

The American farmer - where he has to sell, and where he has to buy / ...

Print shows Uncle Sam as an American farmer trying to sell his products labeled "Pork, Wheat, Butter, Beef, Oats", and corn overseas where there is stiff "Open Competition" at the "Market of the World" represen... More

The campaign issue / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows the Republican elephant labeled "G.O.P." holding an empty "Dinner Pail" which he is asking a woman labeled "Mrs. Consumer" to fill, she is holding an "Empty Market-Basket" labeled "Tariff Tax... More

Puck magazine cover - A puzzling phenomenon / Keppler.

Print shows Puck holding a lithographic pen, standing next to a laborer who is reading a notice posted on a wall that states "'Reduction in Wages due to the Great Law of Supply and Demand'. Explanation by Repub... More

The national chaperone / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a group of dejected young women sitting at the beach with a mannequin dressed in the accoutrements of various industrial trusts, such as a coal scuttle for a hat labeled "Cost of Living", als... More

Why it goes up / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a large hand labeled "Protected Interests" with its thumb crushing the dome of the U.S. Capitol labeled "Congress" rocketing into the sky atop a pillar of fire with a devilish figure labeled ... More

Caricature, Putting it up to him / K., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows a oversized man labeled "Capitol", possibly Sereno E. Payne, sitting on a throne, holding a large cake labeled "Tariff Graft"; a smaller man labeled "Labor" is standing next to him, holding a... More

Puck magazine cover - A maypolitical party / Albert Levering.

Illustration shows a tall man labeled "Consumer" serving as the May pole to a group of chubby girls labeled "Steel Trust, Lumber Trust, Sugar Trust, Wool Trust, [and] Glove Trust" who are winding ribbons labele... More

George Woodward - A ticklish feat / K.

Illustration shows President Taft balancing a cone of papers labeled "Administration" and showing the Republican elephant, on his nose; struggling to get in the cone is "Ballinger" while already inside are "Elk... More

"The free American citizen" / J. Norman Lynd.

Illustration shows an American citizen sitting at a table, eating a meal; every item on the table and almost every item in the dining room and kitchen in the background, has a tag on it indicating at what perce... More

The hag and the fiend in partnership / Kep.

Illustration shows a city sidewalk crowded with women who are denied entry to upscale shops, and an old woman labeled "Necessity" creating a malestrom that drives many of the women to seek shelter where they ca... More

Now that everyone has advanced his little idea explaining their presen...

In the first of two illustrations a tall man "Mr. Hi Costo Living" and a short man "Mr. L.O. Wages" are singing "We're here because we're here because we're here..."; in the second illustration a man in tattere... More

Las planillas y otras yerbas - Political cartoon, public domain image

Bi-weekly broadside shows three unsigned cartoons: one political cartoon addresses Mexico's position on world powers, and a second political cartoon has Adolf Hitler sniffing a flower as an Asian soldier in a t... More

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