The real trouble will come with the Wake"" – Historic 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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A window into the past: The real trouble will come with the Wake"", preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The real trouble will come with the Wake""
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Keppler's color lithograph, published in *Puck* on August 15, 1900, turns the Boxer Rebellion into a grim allegory, with the American eagle and a death theme shaping the scene. The title, "The real trouble will come with the Wake," points to the anxiety over what would follow the uprising and the foreign military intervention in China that summer. Joseph Keppler, a Vienna-born cartoonist, founded *Puck* in 1876 and used its color lithographs to comment on politics. The card's tracings place the print under imperialism and the Boxer Rebellion, which makes it a useful record of how American readers were asked to view the country's role abroad.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, col. |
| Subjects | Color lithograph by Joseph Keppler. Illus. in: Puck, 1900 Aug. 15. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--Works; Eagle (Amer.) (Cartoon th.); Death (Cartoon theme); Boxer Rebellion, 1900; Imperialism; Cartoons, US; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,020 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129247 |
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