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Pipon, photo by Alice S. Kandell

Pipon, photo by Alice S. Kandell

Photograph shows headman of village, Pipon with horse standing in road near stone walls and building, Lachung, Sikkim. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress... More

An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he knows how to get it / J.S. Pughe.

An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he...

Illustration shows a large octopus with the face of Richard Croker on top of "N.Y. City Hall" with its tentacles labeled "Tax Department, Fire Dept., Garbage Contract Job, Ramapo Job, Blackmail, Building Dept.,... More

Commissioner of Markets Albert S. Pacetta uses sledge hammer to smash scales confiscated by department inspectors ... / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo.

Commissioner of Markets Albert S. Pacetta uses sledge hammer to smash ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Headman Pipon and child with hoes on shoulders, walk by fence in rocky field, Lachung, Sikkim]

[Headman Pipon and child with hoes on shoulders, walk by fence in rock...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A hard job with the hogs / Gillam.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Pipon, photo by Alice S. Kandell

Pipon, photo by Alice S. Kandell

Photograph shows headman of village, Pipon, seated in house near hearth, with others, Lachung, Sikkim. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represen... More

[Headman of village, Pipon, seated in house with children, drinking out of cup, Lachung, Sikkim]

[Headman of village, Pipon, seated in house with children, drinking ou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Since he cannot sail the ship, he tries to sink it / F. Graetz.

Since he cannot sail the ship, he tries to sink it / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows out-going New York City Mayor Franklin Edson, with papers in his pocket labeled "Commr. of Public Works", using a drill labeled "Perfidy" to drill a hole in a ship labeled "New York Municipal... More

An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he knows how to get it / J.S. Pughe.

An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he...

Illustration shows a large octopus with the face of Richard Croker on top of "N.Y. City Hall" with its tentacles labeled "Tax Department, Fire Dept., Garbage Contract Job, Ramapo Job, Blackmail, Building Dept.,... More

False weights and measures in the New York custom-house / Gillam.

False weights and measures in the New York custom-house / Gillam.

Illustration shows Customs official Edward L. Hedden holding a balance scale labeled "H.O. Thompson's Pat. Scales" with a man wearing a pin-stripe suit, holding a bottle of "Rum", and with papers extending from... More

Puck magazine cover - The two retired bar'ls / Zimmerman.

Puck magazine cover - The two retired bar'ls / Zimmerman.

Illustration shows a man labeled "Flower" sitting on a barrel labeled "For a Presidential Nomination Only" and Samuel J. Tilden sitting on a barrel labeled "Plenty of Advice but no Money, S.J.T.", they are back... More

[Headman Pipon (front) near building with children, Lachung, Sikkim]

[Headman Pipon (front) near building with children, Lachung, Sikkim]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord mayor's feast at Guildhall 1786 - no dinner, no ball, British Cartoon Print

Lord mayor's feast at Guildhall 1786 - no dinner, no ball, British Car...

Print shows a large group of city officials gathered around a table in Guildhall, some are jumping up and down on the table and have lost their hats and wigs. Posted on the wall are two notices: (1) "Nov. 1st 1... More

Puck's political weather forecast for Fourteenth Street and vicinity / Dalrymple.

Puck's political weather forecast for Fourteenth Street and vicinity /...

Print shows the angry countenance of Father Knickerbocker looking down from storm clouds on a flood that has broken up "Tammany Hall" with the Tammany Tiger sitting on a building labeled "Tammany" and a group o... More

William Tell Cleveland will not bow to the hat / Gillam.

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

[Headman Pipon standing in rocky field, as children use hoes in earth, Lachung, Sikkim]

[Headman Pipon standing in rocky field, as children use hoes in earth,...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Headman of village, "Pipon", Lachung

Headman of village, "Pipon", Lachung

Photograph shows Pipon with children, looking over a stone wall, Lachung, Sikkim. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, p... More

A corporation meeting - Drawing. Public domain image.

A corporation meeting - Drawing. Public domain image.

Ten members of a town corporation, including the mayor, gather around a table to discuss the king's recent visit and his eating one of the little buns for which the town is renowned. No copyright information fo... More

Gone to meet John Kelly - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Mr. Hill tries it on / Gillam. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Mr. Hill tries it on / Gillam. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Illustration shows the Governor of New York, David B. Hill, riding backwards on the Democratic donkey labeled "Democracy" running on railroad tracks near a sign that states "Look Out for the Enlightening Expres... More

Puck magazine cover - Bravo! Señor Clevelando!! / Gillam.

Puck magazine cover - Bravo! Señor Clevelando!! / Gillam.

Illustration shows Grover Cleveland, former mayor of Buffalo and current governor of New York, as a bullfighter standing with his right foot on the head a bison labeled "Buffalo Democracy" with one dart labeled... More

Puck magazine cover - Edson's fix / Gillam after Gehrts.

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

Children in plastic raincoats

Children in plastic raincoats

Photograph shows headman of village, Pipon, with group of children and a horse, Lachung, Sikkim.

It's no use kicking, he must obey his boss / C.J. Taylor.

It's no use kicking, he must obey his boss / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows Thomas C. Platt waving his top hat while riding on the back of a bucking donkey labeled "Tribune" and with the face of Whitelaw Reid, in the ring at the "G.O.P. Circus"; among those in the audience ... More

[Lester P. W. Wehle, a live-poultry inspector for the city of New York, inspects the crop of a chicken] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna.

[Lester P. W. Wehle, a live-poultry inspector for the city of New York...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Making the most of it / Gillam.

Making the most of it / Gillam.

Illustration shows a man labeled "Hill" holding a large magnifying glass labeled "Democratic Presss Magnifier" between a donkey with blinders labeled "N.Y. Democracy" and a tiny shock of hay labeled "Cleveland'... More

Queen Philippa interceding for the lives of the burgesses of Calais, 1347 / on steel by John Sartain, Philadelphia. ; the original by H.C. Selous.

Queen Philippa interceding for the lives of the burgesses of Calais, 1...

Print shows Philippa, Queen, consort of Edward III, kneeling before her husband, King Edward III, begging him to spare the lives of the six burghers of Calais who have sacrificed themselves by complying with hi... More

Coming to the wrong shop / F. Opper.

Coming to the wrong shop / F. Opper.

Illustration shows the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby holding a paper that states "Petition for the Reduction of the Grog Shops in New York --Dr. Crosby"; he is standing in the "Council-Chamber of the New York Board of... More

Richard Croker, Dewey Land Parade

Richard Croker, Dewey Land Parade

Public domain photograph of parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Matthew A. Donohue, inspector of weights and measures for the N. Y. Department of Markets holding a weight used to check scales for accuracy] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick De Marsico.

[Matthew A. Donohue, inspector of weights and measures for the N. Y. D...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Portrait photo of Headman Pipon and Jorbu children

Portrait photo of Headman Pipon and Jorbu children

Photograph shows Pipon, headman of Lachung, Sikkim, with young boy who is carrying a baby on his back. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represen... More

Caricature, The latest version / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Caricature, The latest version / F. Opper., public domain cartoon imag...

Print shows Richard Croker, a Tammany Hall boss, as Hamlet, exiting a castle labeled "Tammany Hall", carrying a moneybag labeled "Pickings" and papers labeled "Deed $90,000 House, Ranch - Racing Stable, [and] I... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The Post's page of "if's" - Public domain dedication image

The Post's page of "if's" - Public domain dedication image

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

A corporation meeting - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

A corporation meeting - Public domain book illustration, Library of Co...

Ten members of a town corporation, including the mayor, gather around a table to discuss the king's recent visit and his eating one of the little buns for which the town is renowned. No copyright information fo... More

Puck magazine cover - Tammany's anti-trust game / Ehrhart.

Puck magazine cover - Tammany's anti-trust game / Ehrhart.

Illustration showing Richard Croker as a laborer carrying a block of ice labeled "Ice Trust" and a sheet of paper "N.Y Dock privileges"; he cries out, "Stop thief," while himself being pursued by an angry mob o... More

Magistrate of city and son, Chao, China - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Magistrate of city and son, Chao, China - Frank G. Carpenter collectio...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Out in the cold - Drawing. Public domain image.

Out in the cold - Drawing. Public domain image.

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860221.

It looks that way now / J.S. Pughe.

It looks that way now / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows four men as children labeled "Tracy, Saxton, Morton, [and] Schieren" fighting amongst themselves to be the first to get up a ladder labeled "Rep. Nomination" and reach a large apple labeled "New Yor... More

The city carriers. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

The city carriers. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British...

Print shows Samuel Turner, Lord Mayor of London, at the head of a procession, alongside Liberty, to present the petition of the Livery of London to the king. Truth rides sidesaddle on a donkey followed by Willi... More

Richard Croker, Dewey Land Parade

Richard Croker, Dewey Land Parade

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021203. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Hearst for Mayor, Municipal League nomination

Hearst for Mayor, Municipal League nomination

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Allied Printing, Trades Council, Union Label, publ... More