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 (2:30), 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] trying to pull down the young American Centaur." Faint single-color overlay. Hansen database #293.
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 eating in the streets; #4 has woman asking policeman to find her little boy lost in the deep muck, title is "A Worse Fate than Charlie Ross's (reference to first major kidnapping for ransom). Single-color overlay, and poorly registered too. Hansen database #294.
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 line. Pairs include Beecher and Tilton, Grant and Dana, Conkling and Hayes, Puck and MacMahon. Use of faint single-color overlay. Hansen database #295.
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 collision between two trains labelled low wages and the private directors (with high dividends). Hansen database #297.
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 color overlay, so nicely done it seems like more. Hansen database #151.
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 #298.
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 the score of Charity, do it for Decency's sake." Background shows homes for the poor, the blind, the aged, and cripples. One is named Mt. Sinai. Hansen database #300.
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 (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. Hansen database #304.
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, visited by an angel labelled Health. This last scene is titled, "The Sermon on the Sands." With single color overlay. Hansen database #312.
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 rocks labelled "prosecution," "Hebrew success at crime," "bigotry rampant." Judge Hilton keeps him out of Saratoga hotel; Corbin from Manhattan Beach; Bismarck, janitor of Hotel Berlin, which has sign "No Jews Allowed." Peddler's pants are labelled Endurance; his carried box of Prosperity held up by straps labelled sobriety and industry. The box contains literature, poetry, music, science, patriotism, statesmanship, and promissory notes. Hansen database #242.
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 (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 (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 (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? / Capitalist:--'My dear fellow--they wouldn't live in them if I did. Even if they have to lodge over a Stable or a Gin mill, they won't leave the city!'" Copy 2. Hansen database #244.
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 (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 (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 database #320.
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 (9:234), 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 (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.
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 (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 (11:273), page 273, front cover. By F. Graetz. Kelly reviving an Indian corpse with a generator connected by a patronage wire. Hansen database #173.
Puck (12:309), page 353, cover. By F. Graetz, man seated in wooden chair has connected himself to guns, cannon, knives, charcoal fire, 5000 lb. weight, poison, and dynamite. A note reads: "Dear George, I can not marry you. Carri." Text on page 2: "The luxury of suicide is forbidden under the new penal code...We regard this as rather an interference with the rights of the citizen. If a man wishes to throw his life away, he ought to be permitted to do so. Lives that are thus carelessly disposed of are rarely of much value to the world..." Hansen database #176.
Puck (13:327), page 225, front cover of complete issue. By F. Graetz, Dr. All O'Path letting child because mother first called a Homeopath. Centerfold has more on the same topic. Hansen database #180.
Puck (13:327), page 232-233, center of complete issue. By F. Opper, many scenes each with several figures; in one, two coaches show young homeopaths spitting at older allopaths, who have pills, dose, and a large clyster used as a water cannon. Hansen database #266.
Puck (13:327), page 240, back cover of complete issue. By Gillam, politicians brawling over the tariff issue switch with a democracy (Democratic party?) train approaching danger, with Dana of New York Sun trying to stop the train. Hansen database #333.
Puck (14:340), page 12, cover. By F. Opper, French soldiers in rice paddy are facing hot sun plus fever, disease, and malaria. China is a face on a hot yellow sun, with a population of 500,000,000. Hansen database #181.
Puck (14:344), page 96, back cover of complete issue. Hospital, medicine bottles, bandages, and medicine spoons. Ward is $8 per day board with sign "No Charity Patients." Hansen database #534.
Puck (14:348), page 145, front cover of a complete issue. Tooth, teeth, dentist, laughing gas, dental association, and dental tool that looks like a cutting pliers. Hansen database #974.
Puck (15:366), page 48, cover. By F. Opper, man with chemical instruments and microscope on dinner table. Additional text page 18. Hansen database #183.
Puck (15:367), page 48, back. By F. Graetz, another Graetz cartoon in this topic, i.e. Uncle Sam protecting his pig, appeared on August 15, 1883. Hansen database #291.
Puck (15:369), page 80, back. By F. Graetz, Dr. Cashdown Mixer, Analytical Chemist, who charges for analysis of coffee, flour, oilymargarine, honey, showing presence of adulterants in each. Hansen database #336.
Puck (15:371), page 112, back. By F. Graetz, shows blazing fire upstairs in "St. Phosphorus Flats--Absolutely Fireproof---Elevator to Eleventh Floor." Fabulous use of yellow and red ink, with some dark blue in sky. The page almost glows. Hansen database #337.
Puck (15:376), page 177, front cover of a complete issue. Shows street cleaning machine. Similar or same machine in Harper's Weekly November 12, 1881. Hansen database #547.
Puck (15:379), page 240, back. By F. Opper, Democratic Party in bed with softening of the brain, case being discussed by three doctors: Dana, Waterson, and S.J.T. Compare follow-up on June 25th. Hansen database #338.
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 (15:389), page 395. By F. Graetz black and white cartoon of North Pole. Shows wrecked ships, a polar bear, and tombstones marking Danish, French, English, Swedish, American, and German victims. Compare Puck centerfold January 4, 1882 (#258) also Puck complete page 118 October 26, 1881. Hansen database #407.
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 (16:399), page 136-137, centerfold of complete issue. By Gillam, a clown named Bargain with Blaine offers a tattooed Blaine the presidential sacred chair with ghosts of Lincoln and Washington watching. Hansen database #268.
Puck (16:399), page 144, back cover of complete issue. Throwing New York City (a child) out of a sleigh to a wolf called Tammany. Hansen database #342.
