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Caricature, Pinchot's inferno / K., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows a dark, bleak mountainous landscape with a tunnel labeled "Private Monopoly" and carved into the mountainside is "All Hope Abandon Conservationists Who Enter Here"; two mountains have faces a... More

The alarm / Motte - Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a scene after a painting by Henri-Paul Motte that depicts Rome being saved from an attack of the Goths by squawking geese; here "Lobbyists" are ascending the city wall around "Ottawa" and han... More

The helping hand / J.K. after Renouf.

Cartoon showing John Pierpont Morgan and Uncle Sam rowing a boat. Illus. in: Puck, 1911 April 26, v. 69, centerfold.

"Plague take it! Why doesn't it stay down when I hit it?" / K.

Illustration shows President Taft standing behind a chair on which a diminutive George W. Wickersham is standing and using a stick labeled "Sherman Law" to beat a toy labeled "Monopoly" that is on a table and s... More

The magnet / Keppler. - Public domain drawing

Cartoon showing John Pierpont Morgan, with a large magnet in shape of money sign, drawing in paintings, suits of armor, and other objects. Illus. in: Puck, 1911 June 21, centerfold.

A phase of our tax system - the greater the service, the heavier the t...

Illustration shows two men labeled "Charity Worker" addressing an oversized man sitting on a throne, taking money from a box labeled "Rents", into which two men labeled "Rent Collecor" and Agent" pour money, an... More

The Wickersham will git yer if yer don't -- watch -- out!

Illustration shows a huge red flying creature labeled "Wickersham" holding a fork with webbing in one hand and papers labeled "Trust, Dissolution, Sherman Law, [and] Disintegretion" in the other, descending on ... More

Puck magazine cover - The ancient game / Ehrhart 1911.

Illustration shows a young woman holding a golf club, leaning against a young man who is carrying a golf bag with clubs, he is holding her hand. Illus. in: Puck, v. 69, no. 1783 (1911 May 3), cover. Copyright ... More

The sermon on the mount as applied to a commercial age / Art Young.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with each scene titled "According to Scripture" followed by a quote from the bible; at the bottom of each scene is the title "As Practiced" which is followed by a statement... More

Paste "these are my jewels!" / Kep.

Illustration shows a tall woman labeled "Empire State" and two diminutive men labeled "Dix" and "Gaynor"; hanging on the wall in the background is a picture of James S. Sherman. Illus. in: Puck, v. 70, no. 180... More

The woman behind the gun / Gordon Ross.

Illustration shows a woman, possibly Coco Chanel, wearing a large hat with feathers, shooting at large white birds with a rifle; two dogs labeled "French Milliner" place the dead birds on a pile at her feet.

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

Christmas in a mining camp / Will Crawford.

Illustration shows a gold miner standing at the door to a cabin telling the miners inside, who are celebrating Christmas, that there has been a "gold strike up the creek", which causes the miners to rush for th... More

The full dinner-pail / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows a personified full dinner pail, banged-up in places and a little drunk (there is a bottle labeled "Bluff" at his feet); he is leaning against a door labeled "1912" with the door frame labeled... More

Trading with the Indians / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows, in two scenes, a comparison of what was and what might have been; on the left, Natives trading furs with settlers, and on the right, Natives, burdened with furs, standing outside a stockade ... More

"Hands up!" / Will Crawford. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Santa Claus pointing a handgun at the viewer. Caption: As Santa Claus looks to some of us. Illus. in: Puck, v. 72, no. 1867 (1912 December 11), cover. Copyright 1912 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Waiting / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows birds of prey wearing crowns labeled "Germany, Austria, Italy, England, France, [and] Russia" perched on the sides cliffs awaiting the outcome of a fight between two men with swords labeled "... More

The angel of the show / W.E. Hill '12.

Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as a burlesque dancer labeled "Rosie", clutching money, and standing with a man labeled "Perkins" who is reaching into his pocket; in the background is a poster labeled "Bu... More

Speed! The terror of the sea / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows travelers rushing past the cobwebbed ramp to a ship that claims to take "Five Days" to "New York", and are boarding a ship that only takes "4 1/2 Days" to "New York". Illus. in: Puck, v. 71,... More

The call / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a moose hunter using a bullhorn labeled "Insatiate Egotism" to call moose; a large bull moose with the face to Theodore Roosevelt stands off in the distance. The reflection in a body of water... More

"Beg for it, doggie!" / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows an animated letter "K" labeled "Schedule" (Schedule K of the Payne/Aldrich Tariff Act) seated at a table spread with food and wine labeled "Benefits of Protection", and offering a bone labele... More

The penalty of being an American statesman of the first magnitude

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1913.

"O death, where is thy sting?" / Kep.

Illustration shows the Grim Reaper falling down a hillside, losing his crown and breaking his scythe, after being knocked away from a speeding train with a passenger car labeled "Steel Car" racing along the tra... More

What are the wild wives saying? / W.E. Hill '13.

Illustration shows a shapely, beautiful young woman standing on the beach between two male admirers, whose wives look on with disapproval from the background. Illus. in: Puck, v. 74, no. 1904 (1913 August 27),... More

A tip to John Bull / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows five women suffragettes, wearing Napoleonic hats and great coats, standing on a tiny island. Caption: Send your militant suffragettes to Saint Helena. Illus. in: Puck, v. 73, no. 1884 (1913 ... More

Warning to royal brides. Do not marry him if the seal is broken / Ehrh...

Illustration shows a royal wedding where the groom is enclosed in packaging labeled "Guaranteed Under the Pure Prince Act" and stamped "Serial Number 606"; the elderly father(?) of the resigned bride is examini... More

Memories - Public domain scenic drawing, Political Cartoon

Illustration shows an elderly Native man standing with his horse on the plains with a buffalo skull on the ground before them. Signed with a monogram. Illus. in: Puck, v. 74, no. 1910 (1913 October 8), centerf... More

Tweedledee and Tweedledum / Keppler., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a large, possibly conjoined figure labeled "Meat Trust" sitting on a building labeled "Packing House"; the more benevolent half, facing left, is offering advice to a man labeled "Farmer", and... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

A drawing of a woman sitting on top of a stove, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington... More

"No drink in the Navy," says Daniels / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with a battleship at center surrounded by an "Auxiliary Fleet" that serves alcoholic beverages to sailors; includes an outer ring of scenes about alcohol and the sea, one s... More

The melting pot / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with two large hands labeled "Militarism" and "Jingoism" at center that are squeezing men labeled "Labor" and "Capital" over an inverted spike-topped helmet stuck in the gr... More

Sly-dog days / W. Barribal 1914 ; painted by W.H. Barribal.

Illustration shows a young woman and a harlequin, they both hold glasses of wine, and the man is holding a bottle of wine. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1955 (1914 August 22), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck Publi... More

Vivisection. The critics and the criticized / Keppler.

Illustration shows four vignettes, in top left a woman wearing feathers and fur is standing near a dead bird and a fox caught in a trap; in top right a hunter has shot a deer; the bottom right shows a laborator... More

[Hand tipping a hat] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch of a hand tipping a frayed top hat. Inscribed: My hat off to the goodly company I find myself among / W. Heath Robinson nov. 1914. No copyright information found with item. Printed on paper: The Autograp... More

"Don't shoot! I'll let go!" / Keppler.

Illustration shows President Wilson about to shoot a harpoon into an octopus labeled "Interlocking Directorates" that has a grip on his boat labeled "Business Freedom"; Uncle Sam is sitting at the back of the b... More

Made in America / W.E. Hill '14 ; painted by W.E. Hill.

Illustration shows a young woman standing in the snow with two young children in a sled, one is holding an American flag. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1973 (1914 December 26), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck Publ... More

Made in Mott Street / Raymond Crawford Ewer Chinatown 1914 ; drawn for...

Illustration shows a bird's-eye view of Mott Street in Chinatown, New York City, New York, with street life and buildings; also vignettes of Chinese engaged in various daily activities that characterize daily l... 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

Obeying instructions / C.M. Crombie ; painted for PUCK by Charles M. C...

Illustration shows a young man at the wheel of a sled racing down a steep mountainside in winter; sitting behind him are another young man and a young woman who are holding each other in an embrace. Caption: M... More

Foolish fashion / Hy Mayer ; drawn by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows women wearing outlandish hats and dresses, and in some cases not being sure they are wearing them correctly. Illus. in: Puck, v. 75, no. 1939 (1914 May 2), centerfold (p. 10-11). Copyright 1... More

Some-body home / F. Earl Christy.

Illustration shows a beautiful young woman, full-length portrait, facing front, dressed as a harlequin. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1966 (1914 November 7), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck Publishing Corporation.

Both winners / B.W. ; painted by B. Wennerberg.

Reading the will - A cartoon of a man sitting at a table

The cartoon illustrating U.S. mistrust, shows Carranza, seated at a table with Uncle Sam dressed in American military uniform. Carranza, reading him the "Last Will and Testament of Pancho Villa" says, "And to ... More

[Uncle Sam's girl-shower] / Nell Brinkley.

World War I drawing shows a shower of lovely girls floating down around Uncle Sam to offer their services for work in Washington. On the side, however, three girls show the problems they are encountering. One s... More

In her path / C. D. Gibson. - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy kicking the head of a German soldier labeled "Autocracy" off a cliff as an angelic symbol of peace approaches. Title from Life magazine. Illus. in: Life, 1917 November 8... More

[Section four. Liberty bonds getting kicked around and howling "I want...

A figure labeled "Liberty Bonds" precedes a procession of fat men waving American flags who kick it. They, in turn, are followed by a group of Ku Klux Klan members carrying tar, feathers, and a tree with a lyn... More

The murder of a perfectly good differential - reel 1 - starring Joe Do...

Poster shows Joe Dope destroying a military truck by driving it without oil.

[Jules Feiffer, seated at work on cartoon, facing front] / World Teleg...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Bob Hope and Politics," Library of Congress, 2010.

[Visitor viewing an exhibit in the U.S. Capitol of political cartoons,...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1999-474 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1999-474, frame 13. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

The cutting monster. The ladies copper bottom manufactory to prevent t...

Public domain photograph of 18th019th-century cartoon print, satirical portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Presidential fishing party of 1848

The cartoonist takes a dim view of all but Zachary Taylor's chances for the presidency in his commentary on the election campaign of 1848. The candidates fish from opposing banks of a river filled with fish bea... More

A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor

Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters. Though indeed a confirmed bachelor, Buchanan in reality was hardly needy. After serving as American minis... More

'I can't believe my eyes' - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon shows Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin, resting on a cloud labeled "Communist Paradise," looking down in dismay at Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev leading a funeral procession bearing a c... More

Gorbachev beholds a shattered hammer and sickle

Cartoon shows Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev looking in dismay at a massive stone hammer and sickle, now shattered into many parts. One of a new breed of Soviet leaders who ascended to power in 1980s, Gorba... More

Jeff's last skedaddle off to the last ditch

Signed in stone: F. Welcker. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

A bad egg. Fuss and feathers - Political cartoon, public domain image

Whig presidential candidate Winfield Scott is pictured as a fighting cock with human attributes. The cock wears fringed military epaulets, a sword, spurs, and a plumed hat. He is just emerged from an egg marked... More

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

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 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

Marriage of the Free Soil and Liberty parties

A comic portrayal of the alliance between Free Soil Democrats and Whigs and the more extremist abolitionist Liberty party interests during the election campaign of 1848. The factions joined to form the Free Soi... More

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

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

Pilgrims' progress. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Democratic party war-horse Andrew Jackson appears frequently in the satires of the 1844 election campaign. Here, wearing a long frock coat and tall hat, he leads a donkey carrying Democratic candidates Polk and... More

Arms of ye Confederacie, Confederate States of America.

A small card bearing a vitriolic indictment of the Confederacy. The artist particularly attacks the the institution of slavery, the foundation of Southern economy. A large shield is flanked by two figures: a pl... More

Adrift in spite of rock and tempests roar ... / / Coffin.

Democratic Party Congressmen Benjamin Franklin Butler, William Steele Holman, Samuel Jackson Randall, William Ralls Morrison, and others in sinking boat "Democracy" sailing between the Scylla of "protection" an... More

"The impending crisis"--Or caught in the act

The print's title derives from the name of Hinton Rowan Helper's 1857 pamphlet "The Impending Crisis," an influential document in antislavery literature. Here the crisis is that of New York senator William H. S... More

Qualifying for a campain [sic] / Verney delin't., British Cartoon Prin...

Print shows an interior view of a room at a military academy in which British officers, in a child-like manner, demonstrate skills in hopes of securing a command for the war with the American colonies. Forms p... More

The lady cop / J. Norman Lynd. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows a policewoman observing a crowd of women outside a store advertising a "Sacrifice Sale of Millinery"; she is torn by her obligation to her duties as a police officer and her desire to take ad... More

The great footrace for the presidential purse (100,000 and picking) ov...

Satire on the presidential election of 1852, showing Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster, and Franklin Pierce competing in a footrace before a crowd of onlookers for a $100,000 prize (the four-year salary for a pres... More

"When I wish to catch rats, I first stop their holes" - Gen'l Scott

Print shows an anti-Confederacy cartoon advocating General Scott's blockade of the South, with Union ships in a circle outside Confederate centers labeled "Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Mississippi, Manassas G... More

An elephant on his hands / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows President Taft as a ringmaster watching two men labeled "Radical Republican" and "Conservative Republican" who are fighting as they get in a tattered "G.O.P." elephant costume. Caption: Ring... More

Symptoms of a locked jaw. Plain sewing done here

The caricature reflects the bitter antagonism between Kentucky senator Henry Clay and President Andrew Jackson, during the protracted battle over the future of the Bank of the United States from 1832 through 18... More

Congressional pugilists - Engraving, Public domain image

A crude portrayal of a fight on the floor of Congress between Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold of Connecticut. The row was originally prompted by an insulting reference to Lyon on Griswold... More

Cartoon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Familiar ghosts! Sketch 1. Ghost of a village lawyer!!

A lawyer, appearing as a full-length, profile figure of a well-dressed man with a large head, wearing a three-cornered hat, speaks to a peasant wearing a smock and clutching a pitchfork. Inscribed above the law... More

Public characters, British Cartoon Print, Thomas Rowlandson

Heads of well-known people, arranged in a medley, placed behind lines intersecting diagonally which simulate crossed tapes forming a rack for cards or letters. In the center are Fox and Pitt facing each other. ... More

A political concert; the vocal parts by 1. Miss America, 2. Franklin, ...

Print shows a Native woman representing America and Britannia standing in the center holding a pole topped with a liberty cap, they are joined by Benjamin Franklin, Charles James Fox, Augustus Keppel, Lord Shel... More

Abraham's dream!--"Coming events cast their shadows before"

The artist portrays a President tormented by nightmares of defeat in the election of 1864. The print probably appeared late in the campaign. (The Library's copy was deposited for copyright on September 22.) Lin... More

Lincoln and his contemporaries - Public domain portrait drawing

Three scenes showing: Lincoln with Stanton, Seward, Sumner, Douglas, Seymore, and Chase, in 1858; Lincoln and six legislators, with the U.S. Capitol in background, in 1865; and Lincoln standing, with dome of th... More

Two's company three's a crowd! / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Votes for Women" holding a paper labeled "The Ballot", parting a curtain on a darkened room where two men labeled "Honest Graft" and "Political Boss" are sitting, huddled ove... More

Elisha Roosevelt sicketh the bears upon the bad boys of Wall Street / ...

Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt standing on a hill in the background as two large bears labeled "Interstate Commerce Commission" and "Federal Courts" break-up a crowd of Wall Street capitalists and stock ... More

Reflection. To be, or not to be?? / [I. R. Cruikshank]., British Carto...

George IV, looking at himself in a pierglass, starts back at the sight of his wife, crowned, looking over the shoulder of his own reflection, of which a cheek, whisker, and startled eye are visible... (Source: ... More

Cartoon - Political cartoon, public domain image

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Those roentjen [i.e. Roentgen ] rays, Political Cartoon

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, person, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A New catamaran expedition!!, British Cartoon Print

British cartoon showing Englishman, at Walmer Castle, and sailboats facing French fort. The Englishman is saying, "If this does not succeed I'll never catamaran again as long as I live." "The Bilingsgate cutter... More

The blessings of peace, British Cartoon Print

Print shows George III receiving advice from a large group of ministers and politicans, all are identified by number and corresponding legend, following ratification of peace treaty by the U.S. Congress on Apri... More

The state tinkers. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British...

Three men breaking a large bowl which is cracked and patched. Lord North is shown chiselling inside the bowl, behind the bowl is Lord Sandwich, next to Lord Sandwich is a man identified as Lord George Germain. ... More

The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...

One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amen... More

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

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

Ô qu'el d'Estain - A drawing of a lion with a bird on it's back

Print shows in a medallion, within an oblong frame, a cock, a lion, and a rattlesnake attacking a leopard - this scene labeled "Tu la voulu"; outside the circle, in the four corners of the oblong frame, are the... More

Stop! Look!! Listen!!! / Keppler., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt charging through air at a high rate of speed at an extremely large President Taft who is seated on top of the White House. Uncle Sam appears as a professor of physics "to w... More

The people's line--Take care of the locomotive

Incumbent President Martin Van Buren drives "Uncle Sam's Cab," a carriage pulled by a blindered horse, which wrecks on a pile of "Clay." The carriage founders in the path of a locomotive, really an assemblage o... More

Social qualities of our candidate, Political Cartoon

Reports of his alcoholism haunted Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce during the 1852 campaign. The matter is taken up here with mocking reference to the Maine Liquor Law of 1851, a landmark prohibition measur... More

A "dodge" that wont work - Public domain portrait drawing

Greeley, behind whom Jefferson Davis with his cat-o-nine tails and chain, appeals to Negroes "Sam" and "Ceasar" for their vote. They will not vote for Greeley, for they "see Jeff Davis and behind him is the old... More

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

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

Letting the cat out of the bag!!

A figurative portrayal of the rift within the Republican party resulting from the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860. Here New York senator and would-be nominee William H. Seward watches a... More

The funeral procession of the celebrated Mr. Jonathan Wild Thief-Taker...

A poem, "The Complaint of Jonathan Wild," surrounded by images of a funeral/procession, rows of people hanging from gallows, and other scenes. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congres... More

Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad dri...

Cartoon showing Edmund Burke, as an Irish jesuit, seated at a table eating potatoes from a pot labeled "Relick No. 1. used by St. Peter." Upon the appointment of Shelburne, following the death of Rockingham, Bu... More

Cartoon. - Drawing. Public domain image., Political Cartoon

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The return of the "prodigal father" at the "Puck" office - drawn by hi...

Print shows Joseph F. Keppler returning to the "PUCK Office" after a vacation in Europe, laden with a string of "Frankfurt" sausages, "Paris" wine, "Neuchâtel" cheese from "Austria", an umbrella labeled "London... More

The great spirit / Keppler ; drawn by Jos. Keppler.

Illustration shows a Native man sitting before a small fire in a wilderness setting, holding a long pipe, and with a red-striped blanket over his shoulders; he is looking back, with trepidation, over his right ... More