The Bosses of the Senate – Antique 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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This rare antique lithograph captures The Bosses of the Senate in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Bosses of the Senate
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Published in *Puck* on January 23, 1889, this lithograph turns its satirical eye on the United States Senate, whose members were then chosen by state legislatures rather than by voters. Joseph Keppler, the Austrian-born cartoonist who co-founded *Puck*, drew the design, and J. Ottmann produced the printed lithograph. Cartoons like this one were part of a wider late-19th-century complaint that wealthy business interests and party machines held too much sway over senators, a criticism that helped build support for direct election of senators under the 17th Amendment in 1913.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Notes | Lithograph by J. Ottmann after drawing by J. Keppler. Illus. in: Puck, (1889 Jan. 23). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,049 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176044 |
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