Her choice. The young man's slave (five years later) – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Her choice. The young man's slave (five years later) in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Her choice. The young man's slave (five years later)
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The title sets up a before-and-after comparison: a young woman's choice of husband, then the same couple five years later, when the joke has turned against the bridegroom, who now serves as his wife's "slave." Keppler & Schwarzmann, the immigrant partners behind *Puck*, a leading American humor weekly of the 1880s and 1890s, used color lithographs like this one as full-page satire on courtship, marriage, and domestic power. The caption card dates it to the July 7, 1897 issue, page 16, though that detail is unverified. The cartoon's use of the language of slavery for a marital joke shows how freely the magazine's comic conventions borrowed from the politics of its day.
| Created / published | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Notes | Color lithograph copyrighted by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Illus. in: Puck, (1897 July 7), p. 16. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,104 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173314 |
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