[Anti-Mormon polygamy cartoons: The Elders happy Home"]" – Vintage Print
![[Anti-Mormon polygamy cartoons: The Elders happy Home"]", [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b0/b08e517daada-L.webp)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of [Anti-Mormon polygamy cartoons: The Elders happy Home"]". An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A chromolithographic cartoon titled "The Elders' Happy Home" takes aim at Mormon plural marriage, and its catalog tags include camels, a sign that the artist leaned on Orientalizing imagery to suggest a harem. The record links it to a Chicago publication of April 18, 1881, pages 8 and 9, so it belongs to the anti-polygamy agitation that peaked in the early 1880s. Congress passed the Edmunds Act in 1882, and the Edmunds-Tucker Act followed in 1887, both aimed at ending the practice. Viewers can compare the satire against the political and moral arguments of the period.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, col. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Chic. 1881 April 18, p. 8-9. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist--1858; Camels; Polygamy; Mormons; Cartoons, U.S.--1881. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,025 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142737 |
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