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Pro-McKinley Political Cartoon

Date: 08 29 1896
Description: Cover of Harper's Weekly, with a pro-William McKinley Presidential cartoon depicting McKinley as a soldier in 1861 and William Jennings Bryan as an ...
Print

William Deering & Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card for William Deering & Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a man showing "The Deering Binder, carefully studied and ...
Print

Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way

Date: 1886
Description: Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean....
Magazine or Periodical

King Debs Cartoon

Date: 07 14 1894
Description: Cartoon depicting "King Debs" a man wearing a crown representing Debs American Railway Union, sitting atop the highway of trade.
Print

Three-Headed Hydra Cartoon

Date: 05 14 1887
Description: Cartoon of a three-headed hydra representing oleomargarine, threatening a farmer.
Photograph

Temperance Rebus

Date: 1885
Description: Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis...
Photograph

Prohibition vs. License

Date: 1884
Description: Two drawings illustrating a hyperbolic comparison between a society which permits drinking of alcoholic beverages and one that does not.
Book or Pamphlet

"From the Sublime to the Ridiculous" Field Tests

Date: 1894
Description: Cartoon on the last page of a McCormick catalog. The cartoon depicts the World's Fair field-trials in Wayne, Illinois, at which the McCormick mower prevail...
Magazine or Periodical

The Next Debut

Date: 11 01 1879
Description: A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler of South Carolina in fine clothing standing next to an African American who is on his knees, surrounded by small bu...
Magazine or Periodical

The "Bloody Shirt" Reform

Date: 08 12 1876
Description: A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame...
Magazine or Periodical

Declaration of Equality

Date: 08 12 1876
Description: A cartoon depicting Justice holding bodies on her scale, one white and six black. The caption includes the phrase: "Five More Wanted."
Print

Republican Party Protecting the Working Man

Date: 1896
Description: A political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party as a bloated man squashing the Labor Party, which is depicted as a working man.
Print

Jerry Rusk Cartoon

Date: 09 20 1891
Description: Political cartoon from the Washington Post. It refers to the role of Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture from Wisconsin, in negotiating i...
Poster

McKinley at Toledo, Ohio

Date: 1891
Description: Poster depicting William McKinley, Jr. at Toledo, Ohio, February 12, before the Ohio League of Republican Clubs.
Magazine or Periodical

"Victory" for the Republican Party

Date: 11 20 1880
Description: The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the Republicans' relaxation of Reconstruction efforts in the southern s...
Photograph

Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland Front Cover Cartoon

Date: 08 11 1892
Description: Political cartoon for presidential campaign. Pro-Benjamin Harrison, anti-Grover Cleveland. Shows "John Bull" (Cleveland was labeled "The English Candidate"...
Photograph

Presidential Campaign Cartoon

Date: 1856
Description: Political cartoon for Presidential Campaign that is Pro-Fremont, anti-Buchanan. John C. Fremont, Republican, and his wife Jessie Benton Fremont, are shown ...
Photograph

Grant Campaign

Date: 1872
Description: Ulysses S. Grant loyalist demonstrates his strength in a display showing various sized potatoes with politicians names attached. The opposition is depicted...
Print

Frank Leslie Cartoon "Winning and Wearing"

Date: 05 23 1863
Description: Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th...
Magazine or Periodical

Uncle Sam and the Philippine Islands

Date: 06 09 1898
Description: Cover art for Leslie's Weekly depicting Uncle Sam peering through a magnifying glass at the Philippine Islands on a globe. The caption reads: "Guess...

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