Puck magazine cartoon of gymnasts labeled Third Term – Historic Reproduction
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This rare historic image captures Puck magazine cartoon of gymnasts labeled Third Term in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Puck magazine cartoon of gymnasts labeled Third Term
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Here the satire turns on a pun: the figures are drawn as gymnasts, and the label "Third Term" presents a third presidential term as an acrobatic stunt. The cartoon belongs to the period when Ulysses S. Grant's supporters were pushing him for a third term, which no president had sought since George Washington set the two-term precedent. Puck, the illustrated weekly known for its sharp, colorful political cartoons, regularly mocked such ambitions. When the 1880 Republican convention deadlocked, Grant's bid failed and James A. Garfield won the nomination, so the joke reads as both a comment on a live campaign and a verdict on how it ended.
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,439 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219246 |
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