Puck (30:773), page 332, back cover. By F. Opper, six scenes where the assistant fools the Philosopher by surreptitiously adding whiskey to the elixir. Hansen database #363.
Puck (17:422), page 96, back cover. By Zimmerman, Puck: "The new parks are a good thing, Mr. Grace, but suppose we begin by making 'breathing spaces' of these dirty streets.” Hansen database #344.
Puck (7:165), page 160, back cover. F. Opper, six scenes, analytical chemist is being paid off; “the big four” dancing together: The Grocer, the Doctor, the Undertaker, and the Sexton. Hansen database #307.
Puck (27:683), page 112, back cover. By K., shows Puck offering “Free Trade Elixir” to a politician (Blaine?) who's trying to use a bellows marked “wind” to revive a fainted Columbia wrapped in a ribbon marked South American Trade. Another man uses a fan marked Pan-American Congress. Three others (doctors?) look on skeptically at politician's efforts. Hansen database #362.
Puck (9:234), page 444, back cover. By J.A.W. (Wales), rejuvenated Tilden being dis-interred in cemetery by doctor with bag of medicine bottles (one marked elixir of life); doctor is carrying a stick which is too short for a cane and might be a large hypodermic needle (perhaps drawn by someone unfamiliar with this new device). Nearly a decade before Brown-Sequard. Hansen database #322.
Puck (19:477), page 144, back cover. Pun on impressionist art, bottom right mocks Pasteur and rabid dogs, labelling a medicine bottle with name of Pasteur. Hansen database #350.
Puck (17:428), page 192, back cover. By F. Opper, about civil service reform. Since cure is believing in honest government, no medical instruments are shown except for cast-away crutches. Hansen database #346.
Puck (16:393), page 48, back cover. By Gillam, shows the tattooed man lying next to a pool with lily ponds. Beautiful example of the famous Tattooed Man series. Hansen database #341.
Puck (38:974), page 184-185, centerfold of complete issue. By Dalrymple, China is being fed spoons of ultimatum pills by England, Russia, and Japan from international pill box. Hansen database #286.
Puck (23:581), page 156, back cover. By F. Opper, “Uncle Sam (to Civil Service Reform).--Don't cry, my child, he'll look after you presently. Your brother needs attention more than you do." War Tariff and Civil Service. Hansen database #356.
Puck (9:215), page 124, back cover of complete issue. Greece as Warlike baby watched over by a Turkey with a bottle of "Turkish soothing syrup." Hansen database #317.
Puck (7:168), page 218, back cover. JAW (Wales). Death running toward gang plank, carrying suitcase labelled disease and accidents, wearing coffins as shoes. Copy 1. Issue has no editorial text on this. Hansen database #308.
Puck (9:215), page 114-115, centerfold in complete issue. By Keppler, showing New York City in rags escorted by New York City members of legislature and Rural member of New York state legislature. Skeletons on stoops are labelled diphtheria, smallpox, malaria, and fever; same names appear on a smoking barrel in the muddy street. Hansen database #245.
Puck (48:1230), front cover. By Dalrymple, Puck as top-hatted doctor with eye glasses examine head of Olney (who endorsed W J. Bryan) in a (locked) Hopeless Ward for Incurables (! as to word order). Olney is holding a toy jester with Bryan's head. Hansen database #224.
Puck (15:385), page 336, back. Lower half shows poor family in a garret; upper shows clergyman going to Europe where there are alpine hikes and open-air concerts. Hansen database #340.
Puck (10:252), page 284-285, center. Shows hazards of arctic expeditions, with upper left inset of rich man warming his feet in front of a fire and lower right inset showing a sailor's suffering wife. This issue's cover is Guiteau on pedestal and back contains article about Guiteau. Compare to Puck Aug. 20, 1884. Hansen database #258.
Puck (6:143), front cover of complete issue. J. Keppler, Uncle Sam as watch dog protecting public school funds from parochial schools. Hansen database #153.
Puck (40:1033), front cover of complete issue. By J. Taylor, Puck congratulating, "Major" (McKinley?), on coming inauguration, offering a Christmas gift of a sign "Public Office is a Public Trust." Hansen database #220.
Puck (38:983), page 368, back cover. By F. Opper, six scenes: #1 speaker Mrs. Prof. Brayneford is introduced, #2-5 various criticisms which cause individual women to walk out, #6 "In conclusion, I would say that skirts which touch the ground are a menace to health, bringing microbes from the streets to our homes and firesides." Last guest departs, leaving only speakers and a hostess in tears. Coloring in blue, green, yellow, and orangey-red is nice, though format is not dramatic nor is design original. Hansen database #367.
Puck (18:454), page 192, back cover of a complete issue. "Dunstan Kirke Logan 'Twenty years ago--Disgusted Populace--Oh, Chestnut'!!!" Hansen database #978.
Puck (9:228), front cover. J. A. Wales on injured railway worker in garret, satirizing a Mr. Field (philanthropist? industrialist?). Additional text on reverse. Hansen database #164.
Puck (10:248) page 209, cover of complete issue. By F. Opper., a blind lady Democracy sits on courthouse or capitol steps. Might be about veterans' widows' pensions--the subject of centerfold and of editorial comments. Hansen database #168.
Puck (8:205), page 394, back cover. Signed F. O. (Opper?) "Treat the Brutes like this--and they will look like this; and there will soon be a Society for the Suppression of Tenement Houses. Treat the Tenement House Dwellers like Brutes, and they will be happy." In lower scene, people are being scrubbed in a sanitary stable, with fresh water, soap, toilet sand, sunlight and the services of a doctor. Hansen database #314.
Puck (2:37), page 16, back cover. J. Keppler, nine numbered vignettes, including: #4 "He acquiesced in the idea of putting his Ma in a lunatic asylum." #7 "Till the 'old man' died, when he skipped of with $95,000,000." #9 "Cornelius John [Vanderbilt] trying to pull down the young American Centaur." Faint single-color overlay. Hansen database #293.
Puck (73:1875), page 16, back cover of complete issue. "Even if you aren't 'poisoned' by a Union Cook, you do not seem to be any too safe. Upstairs--The Dining Room. Downstairs, Way Down--The Kitchen." Food safety and adulteration. Hansen database #912.
Puck (22:568), back cover of complete issue. By Taylor, American Workingman with his lunch-pail, distorted by bad policies, but looking best in the tariff reform mirror. Hansen database #355.
