Puck (2:30), page 16, back cover. Four vignettes. Mocks Herald for involvement with Stanley's adventures in Africa. "Wanted: More Discoverers." Newspaper sensationalism. Use of single-color overlay, and poorly registered too. Hansen database #292.
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] ...
Puck (2:39), page 16, back cover. Seven vignettes, #7 shows dame New York sweeping out the street cleaning bureau; #6 New York City gets Paris prize of 1878 for dirtiest city in the world; #2 ashes and garbage; #8 refers to typhoid fever; #5 to hogs e...
Puck (2:40), page 16, back cover. J. Keppler. "Puck hopes to see Minister Welsh's sweet example followed as above." Eight vignettes. In the center, J. Welsh, minister to court of St. James (i.e. Britain) is kissing a man (who?) at the head of a long l...
Puck (1:22), page 8-9, center. By Keppler. Bergh, wearing a fez and holding a whip, has dogs lounging on a sofa, while editors/publishers and politicians have their legs held in stocks for whipping the soles of their feet. Hansen database #231.
Puck (2:46), front cover. J. Keppler, four men are on the cow-catcher as railroad train passes over a bridge. Only color overlay seems to be grey. Additional text page 2. Hansen database #149.
Puck (6:133), page 464, back cover. JK (or TK?). Mr. Field (owner?) says he's not using the L, "since we reduced the men's pay, it isn't very safe, I think." High dividends and low wages. Shows a signal man exhausted at such wages. Main scene is colli...
Puck (6:138), page 552, back cover. J. A. Wales, apparently sympathetic? Bergh escorts two officers, Fleming as a dog and Williams as a cat or monkey, into the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Hum. Bergh, Pres(iden)t. Hansen database ...
Puck (6:142), page 624, back cover. Early two-color printing, peach and light blue. J. A. Wales. Nice couple is surrounded by beggars. Puck to the Commission of c & c (charities and corrections?): "If you can't remove these people from the streets on ...
Puck (6:135), page 483, front cover. Keppler, New York City as a horse burdened by city administration, debt, over-taxation, and corruption, being pulled by Kelly(?) and another man, with two others holding it back. Background might be City Hall. One ...
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 (6:147), page 702-703, center. By J. Keppler. New year is seated on Edison light bulb labeled "A New Light to the World." Father Time is carrying out candles and kerosene lamps. Hansen database #235.
Puck (7:162), back cover of complete issue. J. Keppler, Tilden and another politician using axes of Fraud and Grantism to cut down the Liberty Tree which is being eaten by caterpillars of frauds, bribery, nepotism, demogogism, and cent(r)alization. Ha...
Puck (7:164), page 142, back cover. F. Opper, with Edison lamp and many others including Bergh, Mark Twain, Comstock, and more, all being wheeled by Puck and Uncle Sam to the Dumping Grounds. Hansen database #306.
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 (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 (7:173), page 316, back cover. J. A. Wales, people from factory lane rush off to the seashore despite condemnation by old-fashioned minister. Some preachers work the beach to find an audience in the crowded surf. A family picnics on the beach, vi...
Puck (8:195), page 203, front cover. J. A. Wales, the bosses of New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. Strong example of the wide limits of propriety in political cartoons. Hansen database #157.
Puck (8:196), page 226-227, center. By J. Keppler, Jewish peddler is thumbing his nose at three men kicking him out. "I have thriven on this sort of thing for Eighteen Centuries--Go on, gentlemen, Persecution helps de Pizness." On the ground are seen ...
Puck (7:165), page 150-151, center. By J. Keppler, shows the press distracted by the electric light, while other dangerous products and activities are being overlooked due to Edison's shell game. Cartoon also appears in advertisement, see #560. Hansen...
Puck (7:182), page 456-457, center. By J. Keppler. Hancock (at sight of the Old Bourbon War Horse): "Great Scott! Am I to be Head of That?" Collection of artifacts includes KKK robes, Fugitive Slave Act, and Booth's pistol. Hansen database #239.
Puck (8:189), page 108-109, center. By Keppler, title is a play on the word "epizootic," with a sick donkey representing the Democratic Party. Donkey is being treated with elixir from bottle labeled "Butler's Party Killer" and clyster labeled "solid s...
Puck (9:213), page 78-79, center, in complete issue. By J. Keppler, Puck to Capitalist:--'Why not build little $1000 cottages and let them to our Laboring Classes at $12 a month, so that they may breathe pure air--it would be a paying investment? / Ca...
Puck (10:249), page 242, back cover of complete issue. By F. Opper, images relate both to Guiteau and to police shooting at mad dogs. Hansen database #327.
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 ...
Puck (9:216), page 142, back cover. Signed with unknown initials (J? T?). About tight corseting killing women; includes skeleton and cemetery. Hansen database #318.
Puck (9:227), back cover. By J. A. Wales, Ulysses S. Grant being pulled down by senatorial courtesy, while Blaine and Garfield look on. If date is correct, it's just prior to news of Garfield's being shot on July 2nd by Guiteau on next cover! Hansen d...
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 ...
Puck (8:205), page 379, front cover. J. A. Wales, a man is being force-fed two pills labelled "Jacobus" and "Forster" by R. B. Hayes from a pill bottle labelled "Dr. Hayes' Ohio Prescription." Hansen database #159.
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 (9:213), page 71, front cover of complete issue. J. A. Wales, the stalwarts as bull on a track trying to stop a locomotive of the administration party. Hansen database #160.
Puck (10:247), page 200-201, center of complete issue. By F. Opper and J. Keppler (signed O & K). Uncle Sam with hook nose leading Jews from Oppression through sea of intolerance to western homes. Hansen database #254.
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.
