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[Anti-trust cartoons showing sale of U.S. Senate seates]: The Vultures' Roost – Antique Wall Art

[Anti-trust cartoons showing sale of U.S. Senate seates]: The Vultures' Roost — historic print
[Anti-trust cartoons showing sale of U.S. Senate seates]: The Vultures' Roost. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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[Anti-trust cartoons showing sale of U.S. Senate seates]: The Vultures' Roost comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Anti-trust cartoons showing sale of U.S. Senate seates]: The Vultures' Roost

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Drawn by E.W. Kemble for the February 1905 issue of *Collier's*, "The Vultures' Roost" shows birds of prey gathering over the Senate, a visual charge that trusts, including those in the oil industry, were buying political influence. The cartoon belongs to a wave of anti-trust satire in the Progressive Era, when muckraking journalists exposed corporate pressure on state legislatures, which then chose U.S. senators until the Seventeenth Amendment provided for direct election in 1913. Kemble, best known as the illustrator of Mark Twain's *Huckleberry Finn*, made the accusation of corruption readable at a glance.

Medium1 print.
Notes1905
Subjectsof drawing by E.W. Kemble in Collier's, Feb. 1905. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Oil industry; BI; Congress, US--Senate--Cartoons; Trusts--Cartons; Artists, Publ. I.; Cartoons, US--Feb. 1905; Vultures (Cartoon theme); Politics, Corruption in; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,183 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137956

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