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John Samuel Pughe

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Satirical print of a stout Union Jack-clad figure with a telescope on a fort, watching explosions while European figures look

Satisfying their curiosity

1898

Colored cartoon of Niagara Falls crowded with tourist attractions, factories, and water pipes diverting the cataract.

Save Niagara Falls - from this

1906

Colorful 1899 caricature of political figures marching along railway tracks beside an expansion train, by John Samuel Pughe.

Busted!

1899

Colour print of animals feasting at a long table in mountains while a man in a hat raises a toast.

A Thanksgiving truce

1905

Colorful satirical print of hunting scenes: a stag among animals, a trophy wall with a deer head, and a family cabin with a r

The slaughter season

1905

Color caricature of a classroom where Uncle Sam and other national caricatures gather around a schoolmaster labeled Germany,

Visitors’ day

1905

Colored caricature of a seated elderly millionaire on money bags, surrounded by a college president, clergyman and eager rela

The crabbed millionaire’s puzzle

1901

Colour cartoon of roosters labeled with nations gathered around a large egg inscribed CHINA, with Uncle Sam watching from a f

A troublesome egg to hatch

1901

Colored 1906 political cartoon of an elephant with a G.O.P. sash and Tariff Graft baskets amid trust figures.

Unto them that hath

1906

Colour cartoon of a snake labeled Populist Party swallowing a donkey marked Democratic Party, with a man's head at the front.

Swallowed!

1900

Caricature of Uncle Sam with banknotes on a street, shops labeled England, Italy, Austria, France, Russia and Germany, and a

Business is business

1898

Cartoon of an elephant labeled Republican Party balancing on stilts over eggs marked monopoly, trusts, and tariff excuses.

Picking his way

1903

Colorful 1899 cartoon of Uncle Sam facing a matador and bull, framed by vignettes of sports including football, boxing, bicyc

The mote in our neighbor’s eye

1899

Multi-panel 1904 political cartoon with a central armchair labeled Vice President's Chair and surrounding satirical vignettes

Wanted; an occupant

1904

Colored cartoon of a man on a donkey waving a hat beside rioters attacking an overturned train under a cloud reading riots st

The Chicago platform applied in St. Louis

1900

Colour cartoon of two caricatured turkeys facing off, surrounded by yellow chicks labelled with political policy terms.

The puzzled chicks

1907

Uncle Sam watches European and Japanese figures tearing down the Chinese Wall beside a prohibitive tariff wall, 1898 cartoon.

The next thing to do

1898

Colored caricature of men in Napoleonic-style hats riding horses through snow, a banner reading Army of Stockholders behind t

Captains of industry

1903

Colour cartoon of men in classical robes in a columned hall, a small man in a suit centred, one figure pointing sharply.

The overshadowing Senate

1903

Colored caricature of rival politicians as cats gathered around a white cat holding a NOMINATION banner, with the Capitol beh

The rivals

1908

Lithograph caricature of a dog show with Republican and Democratic kennels, politicians depicted as dogs, 1904.

The national bench show

1904

Colored caricature of Bryan in tricorn hat riding through a village with newspapers, banners and marchers, 1904.

The populist Paul Revere

1904

Colored caricature of animals labeled as nations in a jungle, with a crowned lion on a rock above them.

The threatened revolt in the jungle

1898

Colorful 1905 print of an armored woman with sword and lightning bolts on a battleship leading a fleet at sunset.

Peace

1905

Colour cartoon of Uncle Sam running a department store while caricatured foreign nations crowd in with money bags to buy good

The greatest department store on earth; - and every day a bargain day

1899

Caricature of animal nations digging a Nicaragua Canal trench, with a bulldog labeled Jingoism guarding the work.

The dog in the manger

1900

Colored cartoon of a man in yellow oilskin hauling a boat labeled National Honor through surf toward watching onlookers on sh

A volunteer crew wanted

1902

Colour cartoon of Uncle Sam bound by ropes toward a glowing Prosperity figure across a churning sea.

The Tantalus of to-day

1897

Colour political cartoon of a mounted figure leading marching men past a window where a woman waves a High Protection flag.

The political Barbara Frietchie

1905

Cartoon print of a man swept in a whirl of postcards, with four panels of explorers, a desert traveler, a castaway and a devi

How many have you sent

1906

Colored cartoon of a doctor examining a man on a scale while caricatured men wait in a gym room, 1907.

Old Dr. Roosevelt

1907

Colored cartoon of a winged Peace figure with a razor in a barbershop, where caricatured nations sit with bristling hair read

Who’s first, gents

1906