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Samuel Ehrhart

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Colored 1895 print of a winged woman in a striped blouse rising over startled men on a beach near a seaside hotel.

The phœnix-like ‘summer girl’

1895

Colorful satirical print of a wizard manipulating a globe, framed by vignettes of superstition, religion and get-rich-quick s

Superstition has always ruled the world

1901

1897 colour cartoon by Samuel Ehrhart: Uncle Sam giving money to save foreign heathens, flanked by scenes of blood sports and

Our ‘civilized’ heathen

1897

Colored print of a cherub greeting a woman cyclist in a red jacket with a 1898 sash, as a swirling wind passes between them.

Puck’s greeting to the new year

1898

Colour lithograph of Uncle Sam beside a flowering plant with caricature faces, surrounded by seasonal vignettes of children,

The joyous ides of March

1905

Two-panel satirical print: a reform speaker on the left, and businessmen reading gambling receipts beside a coin sack on the

Business is business

1904

Colour cartoon print of passengers gambling on a steamship via wireless, with stock exchange crowds, police raids and a smoki

Gambling by wireless

1906

Caricature print: a central group of angry working men and agitators surrounded by vignettes of wealthy philanthropic institu

The popular tendency to rail at wealth is not entirely justified

1897

Caricature Christmas scene: a glowing decorated tree, a child on a ladder, and crowds of comic figures among toys.

Puck’s Christmas tree

1902

Satirical 1899 print contrasting professionals scorning labor with crowds at an employment agency and arriving immigrant work

The annual surplus and its consequences - a study inspired by the commencement season of 1899

1899

Color print of a satirical wedding scene at an ornate garden gate, with a cupid, older men, a bride and couples in a park.

Me too

1903

Multi-panel 1903 satirical color print of society dinners, including horseback riders, monkey guests, and a girl in a pie.

The limit

1903

Multi-panel color cartoon of a man in a striped suit at his desk, watched by hidden agents, with framed vignettes of him purs

A day with a nervous congressman

1909

Multi-panel cartoon of fire insurance directors, extinguishers, and a stock table, by Samuel Ehrhart, 1903.

‘Good’ or ‘bad’ trust - in which class does the fire insurance trust belong

1903

Colorful multi-panel cartoon with a central top-hatted man controlling puppet-like figures, surrounded by satirical union sce

The microbe of unionism

1903

Multi-panel 1902 color cartoon: a seated mayor reads a weekly statement to a crowd, with smaller scenes around the border.

Mayor Low’s novel plan and its great possibilities

1902

Colour lithograph of a red devil lifting the lid of a gold casket labelled Society, releasing scenes of social life.

The lid is off again

1904

Satirical parade print with caricatured figures, banners about fraud and quack medicine, a red car, and a city skyline.

Labor day

1909

Colour cartoon of a glass-domed mansion called Bluff Court, showing its rooms, footmen at the entrance, and visitors outside.

All is not gold that glitters

1903

Comic print contrasting a colonial patriot refusing tea with a 1907 family dinner over high beef prices.

Our forefathers fought for a principle - there is no fight in us

1907

Multi-panel 1901 comic print with a central circle of a red motor car speeding past startled figures, surrounded by summer vi

Puck’s summer chowder

1901

Color print of a woman sailing a small boat through rough sea past rocks, a ruined tower, and a child on the shore.

Safe in dangerous waters

1903

Satirical 1908 print of a top-hatted man waving off colonial-era signers gathered at a table beneath flags.

Don’t sign that declaration, gentlemen! You’ll hurt business!

1908

Multi-panel 1903 comic print of a woman in goggles driving a red automobile past admiring men on horses and bicycles.

Goggles have their uses

1903

Satirical 1909 print of a Cost of Living figure seated among women on a beach promenade, with men in summer clothes nearby.

The national chaperone

1909

Colour cartoon of Uncle Sam gesturing toward islanders as women offer books and soldiers and a ship with flag stand behind hi

If they’ll only be good

1900

Colour comic print with numbered scenes of caricatured office workers, clerks, and staff in a commercial house, by Samuel Ehr

A few snap-shots at the ‘powers that be’ in the average commercial house

1897

Multi-panel 1899 color print satirizing wealthy society figures pursuing social ambition across golf, travel, gambling and ro

The decay of home-life among the ‘smart set’

1899

Multi-panel cartoon of a father at children's graduations, center panel showing a man buried in piles of bills.

Whither are we drifting

1913

Colorful 1905 cartoon of caricatured performers in cages being unloaded from a ship onto a dock by stagehands.

The annual invasion

1905

Colour satirical cartoon by Samuel Ehrhart, 1903, with a central bearded preacher figure surrounded by vignettes of workers,

You can fool some of the people all of the time

1903

Multi-panel colour cartoon of winter resort scenes with fur-clad figures, steam pipes, walruses and a fizz fountain.

What may happen at the seashore if summer is as cold a proposition as spring

1907