tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557Progbear's Foggy Mental BreakdownSexy-mini-super-flower-pop-op-bear, alles ist in Progbear!progbear2020-09-04T06:39:43Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:795705[The Weekly Puck] New York State Fare2020-09-04T06:37:18Z2020-09-04T06:39:43Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Fighting for the New Fare</h1><br /><br /><b>by C. J. Taylor (1886)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AvcgAQAAMAAJ&dq=puck%201887&pg=PA192#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="Fighting for the New Fare (1886)" target="_blank"><img width="840" src="https://i.imgur.com/pdbSjRa.jpg" alt="Fighting for the New Fare (1886)"></a></i></center><br /><br />Various personages dressed as coachmen accost a middle-aged matron wearing a bonnet marked “Labor Party.” The carriages are marked Blainiac Line (which seems to have a broken wheel), Hill Accommodation Line (Goes Anywhere), Sun Line and Water Line. Depicted are:<br /><br /><li>James G. Blaine</li><br /><li>David Bennett Hill</li><br /><li>Benjamin Butler</li><br /><li>John P. St. John</li><br /><li>Charles Anderson Dana</li><br /><li>Whitelaw Reid</li><br /><li>Joseph Pulitzer</li><br /><li>Terence V. Powderly</li><br /><li>Henry George</li><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=795705" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:791347[The Weekly Puck] Drum Circle2020-06-10T07:29:30Z2020-06-17T23:03:39Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Let the Political Army Have New Drums Also!</h1><br /><br /><b>by Bernhard Gillam (1883)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hWBHAQAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3A5yadBYSdhWAC&pg=PA376#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="Let the Political Army Have New Drums Also! (1883)" target="_blank"><img width="840" src="https://i.imgur.com/9nEf9P5.jpg" alt="Let the Political Army Have New Drums Also! (1883)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><i>The U.S. Army is to have new drums. In their day the old drums did good service. Now they must retire and give place to better drums.—</i>Phila. Record.</blockquote><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration shows Ulysses S. Grant with his "Grant Boom" band comprised of Samuel J. Tilden, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Roscoe Conkling, William W. Phelps, David Davis, James D. Cameron, John Sherman, James G. Blaine, John Kelly, Winfield Scott Hancock, William Mahone, and John Logan; most carry drums that are broken or in disrepair. Across the street, in front of the "Political Armory", Puck is operating a makeshift stand, issuing "New Drums for Old Drums"; Benjamin F. Butler kicks away his old drum labeled "Butlers Old Policies" and is getting a new drum labeled "Civil Service Reform", Brooklyn Mayor Seth Low and Grover Cleveland are trying out new drums labeled "Independence" and "Civil Service Reform"; other new drums are labeled "Tariff Reform, Political Honesty, Anti-Monopoly, Honesty, [and] For the People".</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> Pretty sure that’s J. Gordon Bennett and not little Walt Phelps to Conkling’s right but hey, we can’t be right all the time. Even I’ve made mistakes here (just check out the number of times I’ve edited <a href="https://progbear.dreamwidth.org/744403.html">this entry!</a>).<br /><br />Not to laugh at others’ misfortune, but I got a chuckle out of Sam Tilden’s “Forlorn Hopes” drum, followed by David Davis’ “Party of One.”<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=791347" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:789828[The Weekly Puck] Hawmps!2020-04-29T05:41:18Z2020-04-29T05:45:26Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Blundering in a Perilous Position</h1><br /><br /><b>by Bernhard Gillam (1884)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn9NAAAAYAAJ&dq=puck%20vol.%2033&pg=PA40#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="Blundering in a Perilous Position (1884)" target="_blank"><img width="840" src="https://i.imgur.com/DzcHw0w.jpg" alt="Blundering in a Perilous Position (1884)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration shows a camel that has collasped under the weight of it's burden labeled "Amendments" and Samuel J. Randall who is riding on top; concerned travelers include John Kelly, Samuel J. Tilden, Henry Watterson, Sereno Payne, Morrison, Abram S. Hewitt, Grover Cleveland, Carlisle, Charles A. Dana, Thomas Bayard, Benjamin F. Butler, and Samuel S. Cox. Bones labeled "1880 Local Issue, 1876 Fraud, and 1872" lie in the sand nearby. A "November Simoom" is approaching in the right background. On the left, an elephant labeled "Republicans" carrying among others James G. Blaine, John A. Logan, and Roscoe Conkling, races toward an oasis.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> As cool a name as Sereno Payne is, I am pretty sure that is actually <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Payne">Henry B. Payne</a> depicted in this picture.<br /><br />And I apologize for the condition of Grover Cleveland’s face, but even in the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2012645184/">LOC version</a> of this image, he looks a bit “off.”<br /><br />That could be George M. Robeson waving the hanky from the back of the elephant, but don’t quote me on that.<br /><br />Happy 164th birthday to the talented illustrator of this image, and many others on this feature, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Gillam">Bernhard Gillam</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=789828" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:786326[The Weekly Puck] Frozen Dinners2020-02-01T19:45:26Z2020-02-03T05:53:32Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Put ’em on Ice!</h1><br /><br /><b>by Bernhard Gillam (1883)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3-MxAQAAMAAJ&dq=puck&pg=PA280#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="Put 'Em on Ice! (1883)" target="_blank"><img width="860" src="https://i.imgur.com/3vS78Fn.jpg" alt="Put 'Em on Ice! (1883)"></a><br /><br /><h2><b>Puck</b>’s Plan to Keep Our “Statesmen” Cool and Quiet Until Campaign Time</h2></i></center><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i> Illustration shows Uncle Sam putting politicians, newspaper editors, and others on "Ice" in an icehouse to keep them cool until campaign time for the presidential election. Among those depicted are Ulysses S. Grant, Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin F. Butler, Allen G. Thurman, Samuel J. Randall, George M. Robeson, Samuel J. Tilden, David Davis, John A. Logan, George F. Edmunds, Thomas Bayard, Abram S. Hewitt, Grover Cleveland, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Daniel W. Voorhees, William Mahone, James D. Cameron, Carl Schurz, Whitelaw Reid, James G. Bennett, John Kelly, Joseph B. Foraker setting off firecrackers attached to the tails of Uncle Sam's coat, George Hoadly, Henry Watterson, John Sherman, Thomas Hendricks, Henry Ward Beecher, and Stephen W. Dorsey trying to lite a stick of dynamite labeled "Bulldozing Threats" beneath Uncle Sam.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> You know, the more I read about Senator Lamar (think King Leopold with a Southern accent), the more I’d like to go back in time and throw him against a cold, hard chunk of ice.<br /><br />Favorite thing in this image, the expression on John Kelly’s face. Hilarious! Followed by Allen Thurman crying and nursing his injured hand.<br /><br />In theory, my favorite thing <i>should</i> be Roscoe Conkling defiantly resting his feet on James Blaine’s lap, with Blaine shaking his fist angrily in kind. But, I don’t know, Blaine’s expression seems to read “I don’t mind so much,” or even “I am slightly amused by this silly predicament.”<br /><br />I don’t know whether Dan Voorhees’ expression is more funny or scary. I guess he’s angry because those awful camp counselors were too busy fornicating to notice his son drowning.<br /><br />Yes, I went there. No, I am not proud of it.<br /><br />Nice set of buns on Steve Dorsey there.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=786326" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:779603[The Weekly Puck] Saddle Sour2019-08-01T05:44:27Z2019-08-01T05:51:40Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Overtraining Young Horses</h1><br /><br /><b>by Bernhard Gillam (1883)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hWBHAQAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3A5yadBYSdhWAC&pg=PA344#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="Overtraining Young Horses (1883)" target="_blank"><img width="840" src="https://i.imgur.com/XgZ5wtQ.jpg" alt="Overtraining Young Horses (1883)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><i><b>Dismounted Jockeys.—</b> The horses look well enough now; but they began training too early; and will break down long before the race!</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration shows a horse labeled "Butlers Policy" ridden by Benjamin F. Butler is kicking up its rear legs startling a horse labeled "Clevelands Policy" ridden by Grover Cleveland at the "Presidential Race-Course" where "Horses [are] Trained for Presidential Races", the "Gubernatorial Training Stables" is at far left; gathered beneath a large tree on the right, observing, are John Logan, Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine, John Sherman, David Davis, Winfield Scott Hancock, Ulysses S. Grant, <strike>Schuyler Colfax</strike>, and Samuel J. Tilden.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> Doing “clean-up crew” duty again, since I am pretty sure that’s Allen Thurman and not Schuyler Colfax. (Yeah, like I’m so perfect.)<br /><br />In my usual tendency to focus on the wrong thing, my favorite bit of this image is the weather vane at the upper left. If nothing else, it proves that Gillam had an excellent eye for detail, which helps to explain why I love his art so much.<br /><br />Pretty sure it’s the implication that Blaine is doing the actual talking, going by his body language.<br /><br />I can’t help but notice that there’s at least one website online that’s selling prints of this image, and credits the artist as <b>Terry Gilliam</b>! Which may actually be worse than William C. Whitney misidentified as Teddy Roosevelt!<br /><br />Note that I owe you two this week, so look for the second entry...as soon as I finish it.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=779603" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:778622[The Weekly Puck] Miss America2019-06-26T05:55:40Z2019-07-03T06:12:55Zpublic0<center><i><h1>The Contest of Beauty</h1><br /><br /><b>by Joseph Keppler (1884)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lv4iAQAAMAAJ&dq=puck%20vol.%20li&pg=PA328#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="The Contest of Beauty (1884)" target="_blank"><img width="840" src="https://i.imgur.com/GbbiHIL.jpg" alt="The Contest of Beauty (1884)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> Image shows a bunch of men seated on a stage dressed as ladies with a ballot box reading “First Prize—Presidency.” Two of the men assembled in the audience are submitting votes for #1. The contestants include:<br /><br /><li>#1. The Empire State Enslaver (Chester A. Arthur)</li><br /><li>#2. The Same Old Woman From Beanville (Benjamin F. Butler)</li><br /><li>#3. The Mulligan Masher From Maine (James G. Blaine)</li><br /><li>#4. The Delaware Darling (Thomas F. Bayard)</li><br /><li>#5. The Indiana Dumpling (Joseph E. McDonald)</li><br /><li>#6. The Homespun Houri of Ohio (Allen Thurman)</li><br /><li>#7. The Illinois Pet (Robert Todd Lincoln)</li><br /><li>#10. Utica Imortelle (Roscoe Conkling)</li><br /><li>#11. The Buffalo Girl (Grover Cleveland)</li><br /><li>#12. The Indiana “Sun Flower” (William S. Holman)</li><br /><li>#13. The Nation’s Ex-Favorite (Ulysses S. Grant, “Best Record 306,” snuggling with a bulldog)</li><br /><li>#14. The Pension Ring Pocahontas (John Alexander Logan)</li><br /><li>#15. The Centennial Spinster (Samuel J. Tilden, “Ex-Champion de Jure”)</li><br /><li>#16. The Free-Trade Fairy (Abram S. Hewitt)</li><br /><li>#17. The Ohio Water Lily (Rutherford B. Hayes, “Ex-Champion de Facto”)</li><br /><li>#18. The Pearl of Protection (Samuel J. Randall)</li><br /><li>#19. The Tecumseh Twin (William Tecumseh Sherman)</li><br /><li>#20. The Treasury Twin (John Sherman, billed along with #19 as The Sherman Sisters)</li><br /><li>#21. The Virtuous Vermonter (George F. Edmunds)</li><br /><li>#22. The Fat Fairy (David Davis)</li><br /><br />Conkling in Women’s Clothes Tally = 8, but on this occasion, he is in good company.<br /><br />As predicted, Bayard makes the prettiest lady, followed (perhaps surprisingly) by President Arthur (though that might have been because of how glamorously Keppler depicted him).<br /><br />Poor David Davis, the fat jokes just never stop with him.<br /><br />Overdue Abram S. Hewitt tag added.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=778622" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:777568[The Weekly Puck] Mémoriance2019-05-29T07:12:08Z2019-05-29T07:12:08Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Decoration Day, 1883</h1><br /><br /><b>by Bernhard Gillam (1883)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3-MxAQAAMAAJ&dq=puck&pg=PA200#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="Decoration Day, 1883" target="_blank"><img width="840" src="https://i.imgur.com/1lEGOOI.jpg" alt="Decoration Day, 1883"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><i>They deck with flowers, this Day of Decoration, full many a blighted hope and reputation.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration shows a large group of politicians and others in a cemetery on Memorial Day, each seems to be grieving at gravestones that bear special messages, such as Pope Leo XIII standing in front of a stone that states "Here lies my Irish Influence"; Ulysses S. Grant placing a wreath labeled "Tho' Gone Not Forgotten" at a monument that states "Here Lies the Third Term 1880"; Stephen Dorsey and Thomas Brady, arm in arm, in front of a stone that states "[Star] Route Here Lies Our Hope of Acquittal"; James G. Blaine placing a wreath on a stone that states "[He]re Lies My South American Policy"; and Samuel J. Tilden and Charles A. Dana in front of a stone that states "Tilden Boom 1876 Rest in Peace". Also depicted, clustered around Grant, are Roscoe Conkling holding a tattered military standard labeled "Stalwart Battle Flag 1880", James D. Cameron on crutches labeled "1882", John A. Logan as a drummer with number "306" on his drum strap, and Thomas C. Platt as a little girl; also grouped before a stone that states "Here Lies Democratic Consistancy on the Tariff" are Benjamin F. Butler, Winfield Scott Hancock, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Stephen B. Elkins. Others depicted are Simon Cameron, John Kelly, Jay Gould, George W. Childs, George M. Robeson, David Davis, Robert Ingersoll, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, and a man identified as "Campbell".</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> I do believe that’s Abram Hewitt and not Rutherford Hayes. I mean, what would Hayes be hanging out with a bunch of a bunch of Democrats? I mean, unless it was <a href="https://progbear.dreamwidth.org/764715.html">C. A. Dana insisting he hang out with his chums, making him all grumpy</a>.<br /><br />I’d put in the work effort on identifying Mr. Campbell where the LOC historian dropped the ball, but blah blah lazy blah.<br /><br />I also apologize for posting this a day late. Oh well, at least I’m “in orb,” as astrologers like to say.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=777568" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:777146[The Weekly Puck] Magic Tricks2019-05-16T02:04:26Z2019-05-17T17:24:20Zpublic0<center><i><h1>A Presidential Conjuror</h1><br /><br /><b>by Joseph Keppler (1881)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k8AnAAAAYAAJ&dq=puck%20vol.%2019&pg=PA88#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="A Presidential Conjuror (1881)" target="_blank"><img width="840" src="https://i.imgur.com/fKK3hgD.jpg" alt="A Presidential Conjuror (1881)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><b><i>What Mr. Arthur Must Be to Satisfy All the Politicians</i></b></blockquote><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Print shows President Chester A. Arthur as a magician on a stage, pulling cards out of a hat and tossing them into the audience; the cards are labeled "Secretary of Navy, Foreign Minister, Interior, Consulate, Collectorship, Soft Soap, Minister to Turkey, Quashed Endictment, Secretary of War, Protection, Postmaster, Promises, Gratitude, [and] Reciprocity". On the stage are other magic devices, a "Great Machine Trick" showing cards and labeled "New Political Deal Trick", a wheel labeled "Stalwartism Neutrality Halfbreedism", a bottle labeled "Ever-lasting Patronage Bottle", a cone labeled "Great Veto Extinguish Trick", and a drum labeled "Last Grand Trick Resignation". Among those in the audience are Carl Schurz, John A. Logan, Thomas De Witt Talmage, David Davis, Joseph W. Keifer, John P. Jones, Stephen W. Dorsey, Thomas J. Brady, William M. Evarts, Benjamin F. Butler, and Samuel J. Kirkwood.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> That’s actually Thomas Platt misidentified as Keifer. I definitely also see Little Billy Mahone, right in front of the stage, below and to the right of a sheet of paper reading “Promises.” I think that’s John Sherman a little in front of Mahone (in front of a man who could be Logan’s twin!) and J. Donald Cameron (who just celebrated a birthday recently, fact fans) behind Logan. The man with the impressive moustache to the right of Mr. Kirkwood <i>could</i> be Kansas governor John P. St. John, but don’t quote me on that.<br /><br />Favorite bit is the expression on Jones’ face as he squints at the mystery card he’s holding. Favorite cards not mentioned above: “Taffy” and “Secretary of Gymnastics.”<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=777146" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:771336[The Weekly Puck] Tree Trimming Time2018-12-18T09:00:01Z2018-12-18T09:01:55Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Puck’s Christmas Tree</h1><br /><br /><b>by Joseph Keppler (1879)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nhshAAAAYAAJ&dq=puck%20vol.%203&pg=PA686#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="puck's christmas tree (1879)" target="_blank"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4895/46313443432_56531838e0_z.jpg" width="427" height="640" alt="puck's christmas tree (1879)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> Image shows <i>Puck</i> trimming a Christmas tree with various ornaments made to resemble famous personages. Ones I can identify definitively:<br /><br /><li>William H. Vanderbilt (with train smokestack hat)</li><br /><li>Henry Ward Beecher (riding a hobby-horse)</li><br /><li>Peter Cooper (seated on an inflatable rubber ring)</li><br /><li>John “Lord Lorne” Campbell and Princess Louise (Governor General of Canada and his wife, dressed in Scottish finery)</li><br /><li>J. Gordon Bennett (seated on hobby-horse with Herald Sextuple as the saddle blanket)</li><br /><li>Ulysses S. Grant (wearing dollar-sign festooned kimono and holding “IIIrd Term” fan)</li><br /><li>John Kelly (playing a toy “Tammany” horn)</li><br /><li>Henry Bergh</li><br /><li>Roscoe Conkling (dressed as Little Buttercup)</li><br /><li>Samuel J. Tilden (as a <i>terrifying</i> Jack-in-the-Box)</li><br /><li>Benjamin Butler (as a creepy eyeless doll)</li><br /><li>William Evarts</li><br /><li>Thomas DeWitt Talmage</li><br /><li>Carl Schurz (hanging from chair arm)</li><br /><br />Conkling in women’s clothes tally = 7. As with last time: he is the only one cross-dressing. Note also that the <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> <i>did</i> have a cartoon in its database entitled <i>Puck’s Christmas Tree</i>, but it was not this one.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=771336" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:770068[The Weekly Puck] Looney Bin2018-11-15T19:15:50Z2018-11-19T08:55:36Zpublic0<center><i><h1>The National Political Mad-House</h1><br /><br /><b>by Joseph Keppler and W. Kaulbach (1887)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XwAjAQAAMAAJ&dq=puck%201888&pg=PA24#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="the national political mad-house (1887)" target="_blank"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4891/30956783677_21ab930ec6_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="national political mad-house, the (1887)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><i><b>Puck </b></i><small>(to the Physicians of the International Medical Congress at Washington)</small><i><b>.—</b>Gentlemen, can’t you do something for these poor unfortunates?</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> A large group of physicians stand at the gate of a sanitarium, overseen by <i>Puck</i> and Uncle Sam. Inmates include:<br /><br /><li>Benjamin Butler (holding a baby that looks like himself)</li><br /><li>Joseph B. Foraker (clutching a piece of paper reading “Anti-Cleveland Mania”)</li><br /><li>Charles S. Fairchild (?)</li><br /><li>John J. Ingalls</li><br /><li>Samuel J. Randall</li><br /><li>Thomas C. Platt (wearing “King of New York” crown)</li><br /><li>Edward McGlynn (with “New Crusade” crucifix)</li><br /><li>Whitelaw Reid</li><br /><li>Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer embracing and attempting to kiss an unwilling James G. Blaine</li><br /><li>Henry W. Blair</li><br /><li>Henry George</li><br /><li>John P. St. John</li><br /><li>James M. Tuttle</li><br /><br />I imagine there’s quite a lot to discuss here, but the focus is a bit askew on account of the Dana/Pulitzer/Blaine scene (as well as Whitelaw Reid on the sidelines, making kissy-kissy-goo-goo eyes), a sad reminder of the dark days where homosexuality was treated as a mental illness.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=770068" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:769222[The Weekly Puck] Oldest Trick in the Book2018-10-18T04:43:14Z2018-10-18T04:43:44Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Stop Thief!</h1><br /><br /><b>by Bernhard Gillam (1884)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IeknAAAAYAAJ&dq=puck%20volume%20xvi&pg=PA360#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="stop thief (1884)" target="_blank"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1949/45399026681_4181da9e0d_z.jpg" width="640" height="431" alt="stop thief (1884)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><i><b>Level-Headed Workingman.—</b>“Too thin! That trick is very stale. I guess we know a monopolist when we see him!”</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration, reminiscent of Thomas Nast's cartoon of the same title published in Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871, hence "That trick is very stale", shows a group of monopolists and Blaine supporters scattering on the street in response to the cry "Stop thief!"; Joseph Keifer carries a sign that states "Beware of Cleveland the Monopolist" and Cyrus Field waves a sheet that states "Down with Cleveland the Monopolist". Among the pursuers and those being pursued are William W. Phelps, Benjamin F. Butler carrying a bag of "Monopolist Fees", Robert Ingersoll, Keifer, George M. Robeson, Whitelaw Reid throwing "Dust" in the eyes of workingmen, Alonzo Cornell, Field, James G. Blaine carrying a bag of "$ from Monopolists" and "R.R. Stocks", Russell Sage, John Roach, and Jay Gould, as well as a dog with the face of John Kelly(?), and with a teapot labeled "Alliance with Monopolists" tied to its tail; all are determined to look like pursuers, instead of the object of the pursuit. Carl Schurz, dressed as a policeman, is standing on the sidewalk at far right. Two laborers are standing on the left, next to a sign that announces "Friend of the Workingman Meeting at Monopoly Hall To Night - J. Gould, C. Field, R. Sage, Robeson".</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> This entry is my comfort zone. Gillam at his best. The seam assembled cleanly. And for the first time in a while, someone competent at the LOC annotated this one, even pointing out Carl Schurz in the background! (though you can go ahead and remove that question mark, that is <i>definitely</i> John Kelly as the dog.)<br /><br />For the record, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010644400/">this</a> is the Nast cartoon being referenced.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=769222" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:764715[The Weekly Puck] Coach Z2018-07-11T06:18:23Z2018-08-18T23:51:43Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Puck’s Coaching Parade, 1883</h1><br /><br /><b>by Frederick Opper (1883)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3-MxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233#v=twopage&q&f=false" title="puck's coaching parade, 1883" target="_blank"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1834/43401795174_3edfd0024a.jpg" width="500" height="318" alt="puck's coaching parade, 1883"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><i>If this takes, we will have another next year.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration shows eight stagecoaches in a procession, each jammed with passengers; riding in the first coach, labeled "Republican Harmony Coach", are Chester A. Arthur, Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine, John A. Logan, Ulysses S. Grant, James D. Cameron, George W. Curtis, John Sherman, John F. Miller(?) and an unidentified man; riding in the second coach, labeled "Dem. Love Feast Coach" and "One Republican thrown in to please Mr. Dana", are Charles A. Dana, Benjamin F. Butler, Edward Cooper, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Edson, Samuel J. Tilden, John Kelly, and Hubert O. Thompson; riding in the third coach, labeled "Heavenly Hack" are Cardinal John McCloskey, Robert Ingersoll, "Jacobs, [Henry Codman] Potter, Storrs", Howard Crosby, Henry W. Beecher, and Thomas De Witt Talmage; riding in the fourth coach, labeled "Monopoly" are William H. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, Jay Gould, and a box labeled Henry Clay; riding in the fifth coach, labeled "Thespis" are Lester Wallack, Rose Coghlan, Marie Geistinger, "T.P., J.E. Pearson, Levy", Dion Boucicault, Edward Harrigan, and Tony Hart; the sixth coach is labeled "Homeopathy"; the seventh coach is labeled "Allopathy"; and the eighth coach is labeled "The Bruiser", the horses pulling this coach wear boxing gloves.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> Alias the “clean-up crew” these days, correcting the LOC’s mistakes. I do believe that’s <i>Warner</i> Miller on the Republican Harmony Coach. <strike>The “unidentified man” <i>could</i> be Chauncey Depew, but don’t quote me on that. Truthfully, I was just looking for another excuse to say his name!</strike><br /><br /><b>EDIT:</b> The “unidentified man” is Elbridge G. Lapham, who was the replacement for Roscoe Conkling chosen to finish out his term after his resignation. Warner Miller was Thomas Platt’s successor.<br /><br />Conkling in Women’s Clothes Tally = 6. Significantly, he is the <i>only</i> one cross-dressing in this cartoon. What could Opper have been implying, hmmm? I wonder...<br /><br />That said, my favorite figure in this cartoon is Rutherford Hayes, facing the wrong way and looking grumpy.<br /><br />Never expected to see popular and beloved actor Lester Wallack in one of these cartoons. Probably the most surprising cameo since Frederick Douglass that one time.<br /><br />Warner Miller tag added. Yes, it’s necessary; don’t question the curator!<br /><br /><b>EDIT ×2:</b> Fixed the scan. Looks much better, right? Right?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=764715" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:763657[The Weekly Puck] National Health2018-06-13T07:01:40Z2018-06-14T19:11:11Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Puck’s Political Faith-Cure</h1><br /><br /><b>by Frederick Opper (1885)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=C-QxAQAAMAAJ&dq=puck&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q&f=false" title="puck's political faith cure (1886)" target="_blank"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1735/41868734155_d3ae537bd1.jpg" width="500" height="380" alt="puck's political faith cure (1886)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> Image shows a doctor’s office bearing a sign reading “The Afflicted Can Be Cured of Their Political Ills by Believing in the <b>New Doctrine of Honest Government!!!</b>” A bespectacled <i>Puck</i> bears a missive from Grover Cleveland “to Sick Politicians,” which I can’t be bothered to transcribe, because blah blah lazy blah. In the office we see (L-R, with parenthetical afflictions): [Thomas] Hendricks (Vice-Presidential Swelled Head), [James Biddle] Eustis (Disordered Imagination—Sees Visions [of] Incoming Disasters), [Murat] Halstead (Anti-Mugwump Mumps), [Benjamin] Butler (Presidential Delirium), [Joseph Clay Stiles] Blackburn (Patronage Fever), [John R.] McLean (Morbid Appetite for Spoils), [Charles Anderson] Dana (Butlerism Biliousness), [William P.] Frye (Anti-Administration Mania), [Henry] Watterson (Cured), [Whitelaw] Reid (Incurable) and [Henry L.] Dawes (Cured!).<br /><br />How much you want to bet Opper thought up Halstead’s affliction first, had a huge laughing fit and built the entire rest of the image based on that one idea?<br /><br />In retrospect, this might be considered in poor taste as it turns out, Thomas Hendricks <i>really was very ill</i>. He wanted to be part of Cleveland’s administration so bad, but he didn’t even survive the first year of his presidency. Cleveland never replaced him as vice-president.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=763657" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:759076[The Weekly Puck] Puck, the Manga2018-02-10T02:15:57Z2018-02-10T02:25:15Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Our Japanese Village</h1><br /><br /><b>by Joseph Keppler (1886)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ln9NAAAAYAAJ&dq=Puck%201886&pg=PA312#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank" title="our japanese village (1886)"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4724/40144403612_8c2b101cfc.jpg" width="500" height="344" alt="our japanese village (1886)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration shows a crowded outdoor scene, possibly in "Times" Square where Japanese paper lanterns are hanging and almost everyone is wearing Japanese-style clothing. Among the porters, street vendors, and street railroad conductors are depicted Jay "Gould", H.O. "Thompson", Charles A. "Dana", Whitelaw "Reid", Benjamin F. Butler, "Bergh", Elizabeth Cady "Stanton", Joseph "Pulitzer", Samuel J. "Tilden", Thomas De Witt "Talmage", William M. "Evarts", and "Grace, Murray, [and] Barrett", and Marcus "Daly", along with Puck holding his lithographic pencil.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> I posted this for two reasons:<br /><br /><ol><li>I’m plum out of Valentine’s Day-related editorial <i>Puck</i> cartoons to post, at least that are available to me in the Google™ Books archive, and...</li><br /><li>A feature in which I post 100+ year old cartoons is worthless unless I make you cringe at least <i>once</i> in a while. And I can’t rely on ancient attitudes to <a href="https://progbear.dreamwidth.org/752292.html">labor reform</a> and <a href="https://progbear.dreamwidth.org/663083.html">women’s suffrage</a> <i>all</i> the time.</li></ol><br /><br />Not listed: Winfield Scott Hancock (to our old chum Hubert O. Thompson’s right, in what appears to be a Samurai-inspired costume).<br /><br />Note also that Whitelaw Reid’s surname is misspelled. I am <i>shocked</i>! Normally, Keppler’s spelling was flawless!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=759076" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:758189[The Weekly Puck] Beyond the Forest2018-01-13T05:15:45Z2018-01-20T22:11:31Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Birnam Wood After Him</h1><br /><br /><b>by Louis Dalrymple (1890)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WbEiAQAAMAAJ&dq=puck%201895&pg=PA8#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank" title="birnam wood after him (1890, German version)"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4665/39660004471_be43b08cd6.jpg" width="500" height="337" alt="birnam wood after him (1890, German version)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> A spoof of the final scene of Shakespeare’s <i>Macbeth</i> with David Bennett Hill as Macbeth emerging from the Spoils System Castle facing a horde of knights bearing a Ballot Reform banner and swords and pennants with the names of states on them. He is joined by Charles Anderson Dana (with a set of Sun bagpipes with the word “Wind” embossed on them), Benjamin Butler, Arthur Pue Gorman and Matthew Quay.<br /><br />Though it links to the English version, I used the German version for the source image because it doesn’t look like it was scanned by monkeys suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome. Well, that and I would have felt horrible if I chopped off C. A. Dana’s face. I just wouldn’t be able to live with myself.<br /><br />I was not able to provide you with the image caption, but we can’t have everything.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=758189" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:751827[The Weekly Puck] Ghost of a Chance2017-08-23T04:02:40Z2017-08-28T03:48:36Zpublic0<center><i><h1>Who Killed Hancock?</h1><br /><br /><b>by Bernhard Gillam (1883)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-n9NAAAAYAAJ&dq=puck%20volume%20xiv&pg=PA402-IA6#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank" title="who killed hancock (1883)"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4413/36578626022_16935f1c5c.jpg" width="500" height="343" alt="who killed hancock (1883)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><blockquote><i><b>Macbeth-Dana</b>:—“Never shake thy gory locks at me! I’ll bet you Five Thousand Dollars thou canst not say </i>I<i> did it!</i>”</blockquote><br /><br />The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:<br /><br /><blockquote><i>Print shows the ghost of Winfield Scott Hancock sitting on a throne in a banquet hall, Samuel J. Tilden pushes a frightened Charles A. Dana, as Macbeth, toward Hancock, Dana makes wild statements while waving around a note for $5000.00; a chalice has fallen to the floor, spilling "Harmony". Samuel S. Cox, as a court jester, sits on the floor next to the throne with "S.S. Cox's Joke Book" at his knee. The room is filled with courtiers, among them are Thomas A. Hendricks, Grover Cleveland who has fallen backwards onto John Kelly, Thomas F. Bayard, Samuel J. Randall, David Davis, Henry Watterson, Abram S. Hewitt, Hubert O. Thompson, George Hoadly, and Benjamin F. Butler; all seem to be sitting in judgement of Dana.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> And William Russell Grace, behind Butler.<br /><br />And a pineapple. Don’t forget the pineapple!<br /><br />I seem to be throwing you a bone here. Probably because this is the first time in forever I’ve posted an image of Unofficial <i>Weekly Puck</i> Mascot and Breakout Superstar Hubert O. Thompson. And he’s barely in this one! Look on the bright side, he could be like poor George Hoadly. I think this is only the second time he’s ever appeared in <i>The Weekly Puck</i>, and it’s likely to be the last. Probably not even worth a tag. Sorry, Hoadly.<br /><br />John Kelly’s crazed expression totally sells this one. And wasn’t Gillam a sadist to have him and hated rival Grover Cleveland *gasp* <i>touching</i>?<br /><br />Yes, I do have the entry for two weeks in the future already selected. No, it’s not that picture of Terence Powderly gazing lustfully at Jay Gould’s plump, shapely buttocks, longing to spank them. Again. That’s from <i>Judge</i>, anyway. Though I do believe that Bernhard Gillam is likewise responsible for that infamous image (don’t quote me on that, though).<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=751827" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-01:2698557:748461[The Weekly Puck] A (Mostly) Harmless Explosion2017-05-26T22:40:28Z2017-08-30T04:30:38Zpublic0<center><i><h1>The Mulligan Guard Lies, But—Surrenders</h1><br /><br /><b>by Joseph Keppler (1884)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IeknAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA378&ots=yI2Ig83t8A&dq=puck%20logan%20-couture&pg=PA184#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4231/35675847071_6760d9e3e0_z.jpg" width="640" height="418" alt="mulligan guard lies but surrenders, the (1884)"></a></i></center><br /><br /><b>The <acronym title="Library of Congress">LOC</acronym> says:</b><br /><br /><blockquote><i>Illustration shows an explosion at the "Claim Agency, Formerly Republican Head Quarters" with William M. Evarts peeking through the opening in the tent to survey the damage; several small kiosks labeled "Machine Republicans Meet Here, County Democracy Blaine Exchange, Tribune Blaine Organ, [and] Friends of Tammany Meet Here" have been blown over and damaged, also knocked to the ground by the blast were "Keifer, [Blaine holding a paper that states "I Claim Everything"], Logan, W. Reid, Butler, Dana, Burchard [labeled "R.R.R."], Robeson, Elkins, Dorsey," and an unidentified man lying on the ground next to bags of "Soap". On horseback, in the upper left corner, is Grover Cleveland holding a scroll labeled "Reform", and a Puck character carrying a standard labeled "Independents", among the ranks are Carl Schurz, George W. Curtis, and Henry Ward Beecher. Strewn on the ground are papers that state "I.O.U. If we win. J.G., I.O.U. Conditional on Success, C.W.F., [and] I.O.U. If you get there, J. Roach"; and several of the downed "Mulligan Guard" hold papers that state "We Still Claim", whereas Dana's paper states "I Give Up".</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Lazy Curator™ sez:</b> Bless you, Library of Congress, for enabling my laziness. I’ve had to shoulder most of the burden of research for what seems like <i>months</i> now.<br /><br />Having said that, allow me to nit-pick their research.<br /><br />The unidentified man looks like Jay Gould. I was leaning against him, on account of the I.O.U. from J.G. which suggested he was absent, and racked my brain to come up with other, prominent long-bearded men of the period it might represent. W. W. Belknap? William Mahone? Then I remembered the bags of “soap” and made the connection. Oh, that wacky 19th century slang!<br /><br />I noticed that John Kelly and Hubert O. Thompson couldn’t even be bothered to show up in person. Pity, especially in the latter case, as I know how popular he is with the Weekly Puck’s readership.<br /><br />Stevie Elkins is in a precarious position. I mean, it can’t compare with <a href="http://www.savingcommunities.org/graphics/cartoons/railroads/GouldCaughtNapping.jpg">this image</a> from [another publication], but it’s amusing just the same.<br /><br />The eagle-eyed who were good at playing Classic Concentration™ will notice that I’m running out of order, both in the Mulligan Guards series (there’s more than just the two I posted) and in my usual Weekly Puck running order. In both cases it’s to get in a visual tribute (however backhanded—what do you want? It’s <i>Puck</i>!) to John Alexander Logan, what with his life’s legacy (i.e.: Memorial Day) coming up.<br /><br /><b>UPDATE:</b> Re-scanned <a href="https://progbear.dreamwidth.org/536893.html">this classic image</a>, probably the best we’ve had so far from the Google Books archive, or are ever likely to get. I hear you ask, “Mike, <i>why</i> are you dedicating so much time and effort in the pursuit of finding the perfect scan of this particular image? Hmmm? Trying to tell us something, are you?” Well...um...hey, look! It’s Hubert O. Thompson!<br /><br />[runs]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=progbear&ditemid=748461" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments