This is the pull" that civil service reform has with this administration / Dalrymple." – Vintage Print
![This is the pull" that civil service reform has with this administration / Dalrymple.", [1889] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5e7118f4df3e-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with This is the pull" that civil service reform has with this administration / Dalrymple.", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This color lithograph ran in *Puck* on October 2, 1889, across pages 90 and 91, and its caption asks what pull civil service reform still has with the new Harrison administration. The names in the record show who is being measured: President Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, who sat on the Civil Service Commission, and James Tanner, whom Harrison had named Commissioner of Pensions. The Republican elephant stands in for the party itself. Louis Dalrymple drew for a magazine that regularly mocked patronage hunting, a fight the Pendleton Act of 1883 had only begun to address.
| Created / published | [1889] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title from item. Illus. in: Puck, 1889 Oct. 2, pp. 90-91. |
| Subjects | Harrison, Benjamin,--1833-1901. Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919. Tanner, James,--1844-1927. Republican elephant (Symbolic character)--1880-1890. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--People--1880-1890. Civil service reform--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,470 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217788 |
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