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Udo Keppler

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Colour cartoon of a noisy street mob with protest signs, closed in on by uniformed police with batons, 1896.

A noisy mob; - but the sound money police are closing in on them

1896

Colored cartoon of a crowned winged figure riding a giant cannon while top-hatted men pull it over snowy ground.

The advance agent of modern civilization

1898

Color cartoon of a classical hero with a sword labeled Nonpartisanship freeing a woman chained to a rock labeled Tammany.

To the rescue; mythology up-to-date

1901

Colour cartoon of Uncle Sam watching men vote at a ballot box while a crowd waves Autonomy, Monarchy and Republic flags.

The next step, as it looks now

1898

Colored cartoon of a senator atop stacked layers of bosses and legislators, with crouching people bearing the weight below.

The making of a senator

1905

Colored print of a thin man with a lance gazing at a moon with a face, beside a suit of armor at a well.

The Hoosier Don Quixote

1905

Colored cartoon of an armored allegorical woman holding a Truth banner while caricatured men pull at her gown.

Her little enemies

1899

Color lithograph of a bearded man at a desk reviewing Carnegie Library plans as an elderly couple and a cherub appear at a do

A Christmas reminder

1901

Colored cartoon of three men in period dress tiptoeing around a sleeping armored giant beside a rock with a helmet and sword.

The new Dreibund

1903

Colored 1898 cartoon by Udo Keppler: Uncle Sam with a sword faces figures fighting in a forest, with fallen blades on the gro

The survival of the fittest

1898

Colored caricature of Uncle Sam holding a lantern labeled Prudence, leading European figures past two traps labeled Casus Bel

In the Chinese labyrinth

1901

Colour lithograph of an allegorical woman crowning busts of Baron and Baroness Hirsch with a laurel wreath, 1899.

Acknowledging the debt

1899

Colour cartoon of Uncle Sam with a basket of trains and warships striding over two fallen kings in ermine robes.

Commercial might versus divine right

1902

Political cartoon: two large men trample a prostrate woman labeled Law while a bespectacled man points at them from a flag-dr

Concerning a growing menace

1903

Caricature lithograph of a child driving a flower-decorated car past a cheering crowd, with Uncle Sam and a woman in a flag c

The first to reach the mark

1902

Colored cartoon of a bearded man in red climbing a ladder toward a statue of Britannia atop a Supremacy column.

The new aspirant

1898

Colored 1901 cartoon of customs inspectors searching travelers' trunks while a grinning man with a cudgel labeled protective

The custom house ordeal

1901

Colour cartoon of a seated king on the Throne of Spain with a lit bomb marked Anarchy beneath him, beside a clergyman.

This will be an internal explosion

1898

Colored caricature of men in suits repairing a white classical statue labeled Prosperity, with a cornucopia and cement bucket

Restoring ‘prosperity’

1893

Cartoon of bulls labeled Express Company grazing near a fence while Uncle Sam watches, with the Capitol dome in the backgroun

As to the parcels post

1910

Colour cartoon of a volcano labeled WAR above a ruined landscape, with a winged woman, a small figure with a shield, and an a

Futility

1899

Political cartoon of Uncle Sam balancing a scale between a seated worker labeled Labor and a top-hatted capitalist.

The best balance for Uncle Sam

1901

Colour caricature of officials carrying a golden ark labeled Dingley Tariff while kneeling trusts and monopolies bow, 1906.

The ark of the Dingley covenant

1906

Color cartoon of Uncle Sam watching children with firecrackers and toy guns by the Capitol while a winged figure of Peace loo

A false alarm on the fourth

1902

Colored cartoon of a bloated crowned McKinley labeled Imperialism, while a small Bryan blows a fuse toward a fallen Goldbugis

Another explosion at hand

1900

Colour cartoon of a bowing Uncle Sam figure, a seated woman with a Cuba fan, and a man in a Revolution sash in a palm garden.

Good government vs. revolution; - an easy choice

1901

Cartoon of a labor trust man with rifle and strike order facing a commercial trust man in top hat, with burning town and fact

The two trusts

1899

Color cartoon of a Thanksgiving dinner with a roast turkey and caricatured European figures, a boy raising a toast.

A Thanksgiving toast

1898

Colour caricature of exaggerated men walking along railroad tracks toward a Salt River signpost at sunset, 1904.

Back to the woods

1904

Colored cartoon of a bull placing a basket labeled Cleveland's Cradle among Nile reeds, watched by robed men with banners.

Wanted - another Moses

1903

Colored caricature of a grinning man with pince-nez raising a gavel at a convention with flags and cheering crowds.

Chicago, June 21, 1904 - ‘All in favor of the nomination will say aye!’

1904

Caricature of a stern Law and Order figure facing an angry mob with a torch and rifle, sashes reading Prejudice and Defiance.

At the stake

1903