Escaping from the old shell / J. Keppler.
Print shows a moth or butterfly labeled "N.Y. County Democracy" with bust portraits of Lucius Robinson, Abram S. Hewitt, Samuel J. Tilden, and Clarkson N. Potter on the wings; it has just emerged from a pupa la... More
"Evacuation day" March 4th, 1885 - a Democratic dream / Gillam. Joseph...
Print shows the Republican Party, laying down their arms, lead by Chester A. Arthur, with George M. Robeson, James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, Charles J. Folger, Robert... More
The grand opening march over the Brooklyn Bridge / F. Opper.
Illustration shows a large procession crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, at the front, dressed as policeman with nightsticks, are several newspaper editors, among them are James Gordon Bennett, Oswald Ottendorfer, W... More
Barred out from the promised land / Gillam.
Illustration shows a group of Tammany "Ward" workers and men identified as "J.R. McLean, Grady, H.O. Thompson, Spinola, [Alexander V.] Davidson, H. McLaughlin, [and a] Chicago Boss", along with Charles A. Dana ... More
A new way of "waking" the Democratic shaughraun / Gillam.
Print shows a small, rustic room crowded with members of the Democratic Party, some dressed as old women, others drinking and smoking clay pipes; one man, the "Shaughraun" labeled "Democratic Party" is lying on... More
The "early-and-often" voter preferred / F. Opper.
Illustration shows New York City Mayor Franklin Edson with his arm around an office seeker holding a paper that states "Application for Office - New York Ward Worker", while gesturing toward another office seek... More
Kik - kik - cock-a-doodle doo! Mr. Kelly, how are you? / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows New York City Mayor William R. Grace as a rooster crowing over a defeated and demoralized John Kelly, Tammany Hall boss; Grace, an anti-Tammany Hall politician, was just re-elected mayor of N... More
Let the political army have new drums also! / Gillam.
Illustration shows Ulysses S. Grant with his "Grant Boom" band comprised of Samuel J. Tilden, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Roscoe Conkling, William W. Phelps, David Davis, James D. Cameron, John Sherman, James G. Blaine,... More
The true inwardness of the Tilden boom - the democratic tribes clamor ...
Illustration shows Samuel J. Tilden as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his forehead, standing with his back to a mountainside where some rocks look like barrels labeled with "$", and a sign that stat... More
The national dime-museum - will be run during the presidential campaig...
Illustration shows a gallery of presidential candidates, clockwise, from bottom left: John Kelly as a card-playing pig, Chester A. Arthur as "The Snake Charmer" charming a snake labeled "Stalwart Vote" with a h... More
Crowding the cabinet-making business / J. Keppler. Joseph Pulitzer
Illustration shows newspaper editors James Gordon "Bennett" holding up a bust of Roscoe Conkling labeled "Sect. Interior" and a tray labeled "Bennett's Beauties" at his feet; Whitelaw "Reid" holding a tray labe... More
The Presidential recruiting-office / Gillam., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows the interior of a recruiting office for the presidency with Uncle Sam and Puck examining potential recruits against a height chart labeled, from low to high, "Notoriety, Popularity, Capabilit... More
No welcome for the little stranger / Zimmerman. Joseph Pulitzer
Illustration shows at center Grover Cleveland holding an infant labeled "Civil Service Reform", they are surrounded by a bunch of angry old men as orphans labeled "Hube Thompson, Eddie Hedden, Davy Hill, Hugh, ... More
Thanksgiving day, 1884 - "let us be thankful!" / Gillam.
Illustration shows a glum Thanksgiving Day feast with the downtrodden Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine and his supporters "W.W. Phelps, [Roscoe Conkling at an open door], William Mahone, Cabot ... More
Columbus Cleveland and his mutinous crew - "This ship shall not turn b...
Illustration shows Grover Cleveland as Christopher Columbus holding a map labeled "Route to Reform", aboard ship surrounded by mutinous sailors labeled "Bayard, Whitney, Eustis, Sterling, Hedden, Pulitzer, Blac... More
The great national game - last match of the season to be decided Nov. ...
Print shows a sandlot baseball game of presidential hopefuls with James G. Blaine pitching to Chester A. Arthur, with Samuel J. Tilden behind the plate and Roscoe Conkling as umpire, at first base is Benjamin F... More
Puck magazine cover - Unwelcome passengers / J.A. Wales.
Print shows a coach labeled "Rural Democracy" filled with "Rural Regulars" carrying their farm tools, racing "To the State Convention", driven by Samuel J. Tilden, with John Kelly representing "Tammany Hall" an... More
"A sail! A sail!!" / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows a woman labeled "Dem. Party" on the rocky coast of a deserted island, nearby is an empty jug labeled "Bourbonism the Only Subsistence for 16 Years (1860-76)" and a broken cask labeled "For 8 ... More
A flirtation that may lead to serious results in the fall / F. Opper.
Illustration shows Whitelaw Reid holding a folding fan labeled "Tribune Windiphone" and dressed as a woman, standing on a beach with John Kelly who is wearing a swimsuit and bonnet, at his feet is a dead fish l... More
John Kelly galvanizes the corpse of Tammany / F. Graetz.
Print shows John Kelly trying to bring Tammany Hall back to life by turning an electrical apparatus labeled "Deal with the Republicans" connected to an "Anti-Monopoly" device, then with wires spelling "Patronag... More
Another one gone wrong / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows John Kelly dressed as a woman, threatening New York City Mayor Franklin Edson with a stick labeled "N.Y. Board of Aldermen" and pointing toward jars on a shelf, containing former Mayors Edwar... More
The new Democratic eucalyptus tree purifies a political morass / J. Ke...
Illustration shows Grover Cleveland as a large tree labeled "Eucalyptus Clevelandus" with roots labeled "Honor" and "Honesty", and branches that spread over swamp land from which rise gaseous ghosts labeled "St... More
Tammany throws away its "butt", and the monopoly bootblack picks it up...
Illustration shows Benjamin F. Butler as a shoe shiner with his kit, stooping to pick up a smoldering cigar butt labeled "Grady" that John Kelly, on the left, has discarded; they are on a sidewalk in front of t... More
Speaker Keifer's kaleidoscopic speech, at the N.Y. Chamber of Commerce...
Print shows a vignette cartoon with a carriage at center in which Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and William H. Vanderbilt are riding with large money bags, the wheels are labeled "Corporations" and "... More
A moment of anxiety - who is going to get left? / Gillam.
Illustration shows President Cleveland as Santa Claus standing in front of a fireplace where stockings are hung from the mantle; he has a large sack of toys labeled "Navy, Treasury, Interior, Justice, State, [a... More
Why they dislike him -- he will not prove himself a cat's-paw in the e...
Illustration shows Grover Cleveland as a lion with his paw on a monkey labeled "T. Grady" on top of a rock labeled "Civil Service Reform" near a small fire in which are roasting chestnuts labeled "City Spoils, ... More
George Hunt - Compulsory baptism / Gillam after a painting.
Illustration shows President Cleveland as Ferdinand V, sitting on a throne, observing as civil service office seekers are baptized at the font of "Civil Service Reform". Among those depicted are Thomas Hendrick... More
The issue / Gillam. - Public domain engraving
Illustration shows John Kelly holding a shillelagh in one hand and a rope tied to an injured tiger labeled "Tammany" with bandages labeled "1880, 1882, [and] 1884" in the other, standing outside the "White Hous... More
The great national game - last match of the season to be decided Nov. ...
Print shows a sandlot baseball game of presidential hopefuls with James G. Blaine pitching to Chester A. Arthur, with Samuel J. Tilden behind the plate and Roscoe Conkling as umpire, at first base is Benjamin F... More
Puck magazine cover - The irrepressible log / Gillam.
Print shows a bear labeled "N.Y. Democracy" climbing a tree labeled "New York" and "N.Y. State Patronage Hive" to get at the honey, however a block of wood labeled "Tammany Kelly" suspended by a rope labeled "6... More
A summer smoke-cloud / J. Keppler.
Print shows Puck reclining before a table covered with alcoholic beverages, some labeled "V.H. Dusenbury's P.P. Brandy" and "Puck Punch [No London Punch]", smoking and blowing smoke rings. Among the figures app... More
Another restorer of antiquities à la Cesnola / Gillam.
Print shows Charles A. Dana as an archaeologist who has just excavated a statue labeled "S.J.T." and "Buried in 1876" from "Greystone", behind which Henry Watterson, on the left, and John Kelly, on the right, g... More
George Hunt - Democratic harmony under the Jeffersonian banner / J. Ke...
Illustration shows Thomas F. Bayard carrying a banner that shows a portrait of Thomas Jefferson and is labeled "Jeffersonian Principles", with a streamer at top that states "A Government of the People, by the P... More
Caricature, The temptation / Gillam., public domain cartoon image
Print shows John Kelly as the serpent labeled "Tammany" in the Garden of Eden offering an apple labeled "Harmony" from a tree labeled "Bossism" to "H.O. Thompson", as Adam, labeled "County Democracy" and Alexan... More
Our national dog-show / Gillam., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows a dog show where a variety of breeds are competing; in the upper left corner, labeled the "Judges' Stand" are several newspaper editors, among them are James Gordon Bennett (N.Y. Herald), Whi... More
Puck magazine cover - Edson's fix / Gillam after Gehrts.
Illustration shows Franklin Edson lying on a dirt path labeled "Road to Honest Government", hanging onto the tails of two hogs going in the opposite direction, one with the face of John Kelly, labeled "Tammany"... More
The resistless march of reform - the "hostiles" must go! / F. Opper.
Illustration shows a large group of politicians, newspaper editors, Tammany Hall bosses, and others, dressed as Native Americans, one carrying a banner that shows a crude drawing of the Tammany(?) tiger labeled... More
Gone to meet John Kelly - Drawing. Public domain image.
Print shows Hugh McLaughlin with a label that states "Boss McLaughlin Hades", thrown from a pitchfork labeled "Resignation" toward John Kelly who is roasting on a grill over flaming coals in "Hades". Illus. fr... More
Who killed Hancock? / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Print shows the ghost of Winfield Scott Hancock sitting on a throne in a banquet hall, Samuel J. Tilden pushes a frightened Charles A. Dana, as Macbeth, toward Hancock, Dana makes wild statements while waving a... More
Decoration-day, 1883 / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...
Illustration shows a large group of politicians and others in a cemetery on Memorial Day, each seems to be grieving at gravestones that bear special messages, such as Pope Leo XIII standing in front of a stone ... More
Too many leaders / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows a winter scene with a soldier labeled "Democracy" standing in front of a road sign that points in four directions "Free Trade, To Tariff Reform, To Protection, [and] No Policy", between his f... More
"April fool!" / F. Opper. - Drawing. Public domain image.
Illustration shows John Kelly bending to pick up a wallet labeled "New York City Mayoralty" that is lying in the street; Puck, hiding behind a tree, is holding onto a string attached to the wallet, ready to pul... More
With Puck's compliments to the Democratic National Convention at Chica...
Illustration shows Puck holding a portrait of Samuel J. Tilden labeled "Opposed to Kelly 1876 - Carried New York by 32,000 Votes" and a portrait of Winfield Scott Hancock labeled "Supported by Kelly 1880 - Beat... More
The olympus of corruption - "Apollo strikes the lyre and charms the go...
Illustration shows James G. Blaine as Apollo playing a lyre labeled "N.Y. Tribune" fashioned from the body of Whitelaw Reid, before a gathering of the gods on Olympus; among those present are Cyrus Field as Mer... More
A lenten dream / J. Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows a mermaid labeled "Presidency" swimming in water with a clear view of the fish that are attracted to her. Depicted are David Davis, Grover Cleveland, Joseph E. McDonald, Benjamin F. Butler, R... More
Icon Richelieu's defiance / Gillam., public domain photograph
Illustration shows President Cleveland as Cardinal Richelieu embracing a young woman labeled "Civil Service" as he is confronted by a group of courtiers labeled "Manning, Barnum, C.S. Blackburn, [and] Hendricks... More
Puck's pyrotechnics - Fourth-of-July fireworks free to all / Opper & C...
Print shows a fireworks display with Puck bowing on a stage in front of a "Fan Light" featuring the likenesses of William H. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and Jay Gould; on stage with Puck is a hand... More
Blundering again! / Gillam., Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon
Print shows a group of Democrats on a log raft that is breaking up within sight of land, with two logs labeled "New Jersey [and] New York" coming loose and drifting away; there is a small sail labeled "Democra[... More
"Stop thief!" / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration, reminiscent of Thomas Nast's cartoon of the same title published in Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871, hence "That trick is very stale", shows a group of monopolists and Blaine supporters scatterin... More
Theodore Roosevelt - Bottom's dream, Political Cartoon
Illustration shows Puck's stereotypical Irishman labeled "Democracy" in the role of "Bottom" from Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", with Puck holding the head of an ass above him. He is holding a paper t... More
Puck's notion of the kind of fancy-dress charity ball that would be a ...
Illustration shows a costume ball with a band of newspaper editors labeled "Herald, Sun, Staats-Zeitung, World, Times, [and] Evening Post" conducted by Puck; among those present are James G. Blaine, Whitelaw Re... More
A hard job with the hogs / Gillam.
Illustration shows President Cleveland as a pig farmer getting tangled in leashes attached to the hind legs of several hogs, each with a distinctive brand, labeled "Hugh McLaughlin, H.O. Thompson, Higgins, Beat... More
Puck's perplexing position - between two evils / D.K.
Print shows Puck standing between John Kelly, on the left, in front of "Tammany Hall", holding a flag that states "Down with the Bloated Monopolists!!", he has F.B. Thurber in his coat pocket, and on the right,... More
Still waiting / F. Opper. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Print shows several men with brooms and shovels locked outside a fence with a large, spiked gate labeled "Civil Service Reform", among them are Thomas F. Bayard, Samuel J. Tilden, Henry Watterson, Charles A. Da... More
A flag the Independents will fight under / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows the Puck figure for the "Independent" party standing on a raised platform, hoisting a flag that states "For President G. Cleveland" showing a portrait of Grover Cleveland, and a female figure... More
Caricature, Squeezed dry / Gillam., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows John Kelly dressed as an old woman street vendor, sitting at "Mrs. J. Kelly Political Fruit Stand", selling "N.Y. Patronage Lemonade"; he has tossed to the gutter a lemon labeled "Edson" that... More
The Tammany Fagin and his pupils / F. Opper.
Illustration shows John Kelly at the far end of a room, as Charles Dickens' character Fagin, wearing a robe with a "Tammany Fund" money bag in a pocket, he is rubbing his hands together as a show of satisfactio... More
Our government farm -- President Cleveland finds an effectual protecti...
Illustration shows President Cleveland stands directly behind a wall of flames labeled "Civil Service Reform"; behind him, working on the "Government Farm" are members of his cabinet, William C. Endicott with a... More
The administration's hardest job / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows President Cleveland and his cabinet officers struggling to push and pull the Democratic donkey labeled "Bourbon Democracy" into a stable labeled "Reform Stables"; on the donkey's hooves, acti... More
Caricature, For sale again / F. Graetz., public domain cartoon image
Print shows John Kelly carrying a basket labeled "27,000 Votes For Sale", accosting passengers on a "New York Train", seeking buyers; around the car, men are seated beneath windows labeled "Democratic Nominatio... More
William Tell Cleveland will not bow to the hat / Gillam.
Illustration shows Grover Cleveland, as William Tell, holding the hand of Franklin Edson, as his son, striding past a hat labeled "Tammany" perched atop a stick labeled "Ignorant Voters" around which Samuel S. ... More
The Democratic smithy - odd shoes for the mule / Gillam. Joseph Pulitz...
Illustration shows the interior of a blacksmith's shop where Samuel Randall, Abram Hewitt, and Benjamin Butler are putting oversized shoes labeled "Protection, Free Trade, [and] Incidental Tariff" on a mule lab... More
They can not stop the wheel / F. Opper.
Illustration shows John Kelly and Benjamin F. Butler struggling against a waterwheel labeled "Cleveland Boom" driven by rushing water from a trough labeled "Popular Enthusiasm" in a millrace outside a "Reform M... More
Made harmless at last! / F. Graetz.
Public domain photograph related to Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Tammany will send a full delegation to the state convention" - New Yo...
Print shows John Kelly driving a wagon labeled "Tammany" overloaded with rowdy delegates to the New York state convention in Syracuse; the wagon is being pulled by the Tammany tiger. Several men are drinking al... More
Puck's coaching parade, 1883 / F. Opper.
Illustration shows eight stagecoaches in a procession, each jammed with passengers; riding in the first coach, labeled "Republican Harmony Coach", are Chester A. Arthur, Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine, John A... More
Blundering in a perilous position / Gillam.
Illustration shows a camel that has collasped under the weight of it's burden labeled "Amendments" and Samuel J. Randall who is riding on top; concerned travelers include John Kelly, Samuel J. Tilden, Henry Wat... More
Solid for another year / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows John Kelly wearing a tuxedo and winking, standing next to a large safe labeled "N.Y. City Treasury", turning the combination labeled "Bargin Offices Spoils Steal" (BOSS); a notice at the bott... More
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Tammany boss Honest John Kelly leads a parade of men who carry a banner that reads, "Tammany Hall. 'This Is Our Funeral'." Kelly leans on a cane and wears a shoulder sling for an injured arm. One eye is cover... More
Puck's own Yorktown celebration / J. Keppler.
Print shows Puck sitting on a wooden cut-out Pegasus reviewing a procession of soldiers, among whom are John A. Logan, Roscoe Conkling carrying a flag labeled "Third Term", Joseph W. Keifer, William M. Evarts, ... More
The political Sam'ls of Posen / Gillam.
Print shows a large group of political peddlers trying to sell their goods to Columbia as mistress of the house. Among those shown are Samuel J. Tilden selling "Tribulation Toys", Benjamin F. Butler with "Elast... More