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Udo Keppler

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Colored 1902 cartoon: three uniformed men lunge toward a winged Presidency chair while a ghostly figure blocks them at a clif

A ghostly warning to certain presidential aspirants

1902

Colour lithograph of a roaring lion labelled England facing two eagles in a night sky with a full moon.

Not dead yet

1900

Colorful 1900 caricature of France's figure leading national characters in a parade before the Paris Exposition, Eiffel Tower

Business business

1900

Satirical 1898 color print by Udo Keppler: armored idol labeled False Pride above a sacrifice scene with kneeling Spain.

The sacrifice to a crumbling idol

1898

Colored cartoon: a draped woman spins a thread labeled human life while a hooded figure with a knife and a top-hatted man wit

The thread of life

1907

Colour cartoon of a slumped stout man in an armchair surrounded by liquor bottles, watched by a group of men in a room.

A desperate case of political dipsomania

1896

Colored 1897 cartoon by Udo Keppler: a farmer pays a toll to a top-hatted Monopoly figure at a Dingley Tariff gate.

The keepers at the gate

1897

Colour caricature of men in formal dress singing The Star Spangled Banner beside a Columbia figure and flag, led by a small c

Peace jubilee of the American union glee club

1896

Colored 1898 cartoon: Uncle Sam watches a Red Cross nurse tend a wounded soldier, with conquistadors fighting in clouds above

Then and now

1898

Colored political cartoon: John Bull gestures at a monument with Britannia while Uncle Sam looks away beneath Philippine Comp

The duty of great nations

1899

Caricature of sleeping Uncle Sam in an armchair, dreaming of naval battles and conquest beside jingoist newspapers and an eag

Uncle Sam’s dream of conquest and carnage - caused by reading the Jingo newspapers

1895

Colored cartoon: a monopoly figure carves an Alaska natural resources feast while a homesteader kneels outside at the steps.

Dives and Lazarus

1910

Cartoon of a crowned bull-headed plutocrat sowing seeds of abuse and arrogance across a field, trampling a small flag.

The seeds of socialism

1908

Winged angel with olive branch above a globe supported by two elderly men in period dress against a cloudy sky.

and peace shall rule

1899

Colored cartoon of two men digging graves at dusk, with satirical political tombstones and wreaths in a cemetery.

The foolish resurrectionists

1897

Cartoon of a man in a life vest firing a rescue line from a cannon through a storm toward a ship, with a rainbow reading Libe

Captains courageous

1903

Colour political cartoon by Udo Keppler, 1896, showing a winged officer leading caricatured figures toward a Spirit of Freedo

Freedom’s latest convert

1896

Colour cartoon of a giant railroad magnate seated over a canal excavation while a small worker looks up with a pickaxe.

The main obstruction at Panama

1905

Uncle Sam and a woman in a star-patterned robe decorate a lit Christmas tree as children with island labels reach up for toys

Our Christmas tree

1900

Caricature of a bearded man on a pedestal labeled Russia beneath the Spirit of Civilization, with onlookers below.

Exposed to the world’s contempt

1903

Colour caricature of a stormy-sea ship labeled Life Insurance, with a goat and exaggerated men in dark suits.

Turn the rascals out

1905

Colored caricature of churchmen in a balloon basket dropping sandbags labeled Blue Laws and No Sunday Recreation over clouds.

Getting into the light

1901

Seated armored war god bound by rose chains, pulled by small figures, with a winged Peace figure and discarded shield.

The fettered war god

1902

Caricature of Cuba with raw sugar cane approaching an annexation gate beside a tariff wall, as a sugar grower shouts at a rec

Cuba’s opportunity

1902

Colored 1898 cartoon: a seated figure labeled History reads a book while statues on yellow pillars stand by the sea.

Puck to the rescue

1898

Colored cartoon of three caricatured men walking arm in arm down Political Bowery past political saloon and museum signs.

Jack ashore

1900

Allegorical woman in flag robes balances a sword on scales above a globe labeled United States, 1903 political print.

Inevitable

1903

Cartoon of a knight with a reciprocity lance facing a fur-clad giant with a Dingley Tariff club beside a castle.

The coming struggle

1901

Colored lithograph of a tenement building with ghostly figures and a skeleton violinist rising into a night sky.

The tenement - a menace to all

1901

Satirical lithograph of policemen taking hush money beside an insurance office and a Tenderloin dive entrance.

No difference

1905

Colored cartoon: a spectacled man grips two sticks with a diabolo while a pink-clad stout figure tumbles above him.

How the diabolo can I keep this going till nomination day

1907

Colour cartoon of Uncle Sam facing a peacock whose tail feathers are labelled, while men with scissors reach to clip them.

A tempting tail

1902