Puck (16:402), cover. By Gillam, shows tattooed man butt up in the water next to a dog (?) also butt up, labelled “We claim everything, Me & Jack,” calling from a soap campaign; bar is labelled “hurrah soap--to remove tattoo.” This cover refers back to front cover of July 2, 1884, “Me and Jack,” showing Blaine and a dog sitting on a rotting plank. A later cover picks up image again: a Wet dog on plank, front cover (page 225 of Vol. 17), on June 10, 1885. Hansen database #186.
Puck (18:454), page184-185, center of a complete issue. "Uncremated Mugwump (from outside) 'If those old Bourbons take that…me, they'll be a little startled when they find out that I'm alive-and kicking'!" Cremation, but no technical information on cremation is provided in the picture. Hansen database #580.
Puck (26:655), front cover. By C. J. (or J. C.?), with an official (mayor?) wielding a club marked district attorney and New York City Reform Club against nine-headed monster (Hydra) of corruption. Hansen database #207.
Puck (45:1167), front cover of complete issue. This cover picture shows shyster lawyer in court. For some reason his bag looks just like a doctor's bag. Hansen database #940.
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 (32:832), page 409, front cover. By W. A. Rogers, Reid and Harrison with knife and saw have cut open the GOP elephant and found the McKinley Bill inside. Hansen database #213.
Puck (32:826), page 311, front cover. By J. Taylor, John Sherman's Gold & Silver Certificate of Marriage. Shows a male coin marked "par" departing for Europe, while a crying female marked "60-cent dollar" cries in a chair. She uses Bland's smelling salts, Jones Elixir of Life, Stewart's tonic, purely western, and B. Russel's conference fizz. Hansen database #212.
Puck (68:1751), page 11 of complete issue. Full page Colgate shaving powder advertisement, invoking the "Medical Times" on improvements in barber shops. Hansen database #856.
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.
Judge (20:495), page 1, front cover, in bound volume. By Victor, a pig, crying, dressed as Uncle Sam, sitting outside the door of Germany, which has a sign "No Admittance for the American Hog." France's gate says "The American Pig Excluded." Issue has no text on this; all content is jokes and very short pieces. Hansen database #2077.
Judge (24:586), page 8-9, center. By Victor, "The cholera has broken out in Hamburg--an emigrant ship lately landed over twenty-two hundred emigrants in New York." Gate at right says "Closed on Account of Cholera Brought through Indiscriminate Immigration." A specter labeled "cholera" in front of gate stops Uncle Sam and "Miss Columbia," both in travelling clothes (i.e. they are tourists); behind them is the lake and buildings of the Chicago Fair (i.e. this is not the ocean, the location is not Hamburg or New York). There is no text about this image in the magazine. Hansen database #2116.
Puck (73:1882), page 7 of complete issue. Black and white cartoon, "New patient--Doctor what ails me? I'm shaking like a leaf? Doctor--Malaria. Take whiskey and quinine. What's your business? New Patient--I'm a police captain! Doctor--Never mind the whiskey and quinine. Take a trip to Europe!" Hansen database #915.
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.
Judge (44:1109), page 16, back cover. Medical content in Irish saloon cartoon. 1 "Hungry Hank-I'm sent here by de doctor of de small-pox pest-house ter get-" 2 Hank (pouring it down) "Oh, Hank! Hank! I'm afraid dat dat inventive head o'yours will make a rich millionare of you yet." Hansen database #952.
Judge (20:501), page 11, back cover, in bound volume. By Hamilton, two scenes attacking the Society for the Prevention of Vice. Upper and lower captions: "Why is it that our daily newspapers are allowed to retail as `news' the most abominable indecencies for our children to read--While the art dealer is arrested for selling classics and works of art which only the most cultured can appreciate or understand?" Issue has no relevant text. Hansen database #2082.
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 south solution." Also includes barrels labeled "Allopathic" and "Homeopathic." Hansen database #241.
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 south solution." Also includes barrels labeled "Allopathic" and "Homeopathic." Hansen database #241.
Judge (44:1109), cover. Grant Hamilton, in a surgical theater, empty except for a smiling Sam, a white-gowned Cleveland rolls up his sleeves. At hand are two tanks: "Political Oxygen" and "Cleveland's Ether." Labels on mule's leg are "Expansion Leg," "Financial Leg," and "Tariff Leg." Page 2 has editorial of one very long paragraph: ". . . . The methods of Dr. Lorenz, the eminent Vienna surgeon, as known to all and will probably at no distant period be practiced by specialists throughout the land…." This might be the earliest white-coated doctor. Hansen database #948.
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.
Judge (19:483), page 267, in bound volume. In a column of jokes. "Hello there, Koch's lymph! I'm expecting you."--"Who are you?"--"I'm Brown-Sequard's elixir of life." Hansen database #2073.
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 (16:407), page 264-265, center of complete issue. Cleveland and many other figures by fireplace wondering about stockings and Santa. Hansen database #270.
Puck (66:1710), page 8-9, centerfold of complete issue. Scenes include thought cure, mental cure, mind cure, germs, sterilized, nurse, ambulance, doctor, flies and Dr. Wiley. Hansen database #992.
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.
Judge (29:733), page 284-285, center. By Gillam, a drowned Tammany tiger from a wrecked ship is laying over a barrel labelled "The Rum Question." A paper on the ground says "Drowned in the tidal wave of 1894." Dana from the New York Sun tries to give the tiger a spoon of "N.Y. Sun Cholera Mixture" while politicians and publishers give advice. Hansen database #42.
Judge (68:1735), single sheet. Color cartoon signed by "L. Fellows," illustrates a humerous short story by J. A. Waldron. Shows elegant lady patient in bed with bon bons and rubber hot water bottle, and seated doctor holding a thermometer. Hansen database #2902
Judge (9:233), back cover. By Zimmerman, citizen tormented, among others, by Dr. Probem presenting a bill for $90, and sellers of adulterated milk and oleo. Several vignettes including oleo, chalk added to milk, and getting a bill from Dr. Probem. Hansen database #33.
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.
Judge (17:431), page 235, front cover. Hamilton, "La Grippe--'Good-bye; I've had a splendid reception. Uncle Sam-- 'Don't come again'." Bearded man with cloak and Russian-style fur hat wears ribbon labelled "Russian La Grippe" and carries a suitcase labelled influenza. Uncle Sam has ready at hand: pills, plaster, medicines, but no thermometer. Hansen database #37.
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.