A picture for employers. Why they can live on 40 cents a day, and they can't – Vintage Print
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A picture for employers. Why they can live on 40 cents a day, and they can't
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Joseph Keppler's lithograph, published in the satirical magazine *Puck* on August 21, 1878, takes aim at the wage argument employers used to defend hiring Chinese workers. Its title, "A picture for employers," and its caption, "Why they can live on 40 cents a day, and they can't," frame the comparison that fueled labor protests in the 1870s, especially in California, where anti-Chinese sentiment grew strong among white workers. Keppler, a Vienna-born cartoonist who founded the German-language *Puck* in St. Louis before it moved to New York, used sharp caricature to make his economic point. It shows how the illustrated press shaped debates over labor and immigration.
| Created / published | 1878 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Subjects | Lithograph by J. Keppler. Illus. in: Puck, 1878 Aug. 21, p. 16. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - ALIEN LABOR, CHINESE--1878. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173534 |
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