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
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
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...
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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