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In danger. Puck: What are you going to do about it?" / Keppler." – Historic Reproduction

In danger. Puck: What are you going to do about it?" / Keppler.", [published 1881] — antique lithograph
In danger. Puck: What are you going to do about it?" / Keppler.", [published 1881]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Columbia and Uncle Sam appear here under threat from a serpent, a stock image Puck used for monopoly interests, and the Senate is named among the subjects. Joseph Keppler, the Austrian-born cartoonist who helped found Puck, drew the scene for the magazine's February 9, 1881 issue, where the caption asks the nation what it intends to do about the danger. The comic-weekly form let Keppler pair a sharp political message with a large, crowded color composition that readers could study at length.

Created / published[published 1881]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreEditorial cartoons 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890.
NotesIllus. in: Puck, 1881 Feb. 9, pp. 386-387.
SubjectsUnited States.--Congress.--Senate--1880-1890. Snakes--1880-1890. Columbia (Symbolic character)--1880-1890. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1880-1890. Monopolies--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,443 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216926

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