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Udo Keppler

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Colour lithograph of a ship labeled Shipping Subsidy battling stormy waves marked Press Attacks and rocks marked Opposition,

In dire distress

1901

Colour political cartoon: a shouting caricature labeled Cuban rises over an island while a dejected Spain sits by debt papers

Poor Spain!

1898

Colored cartoon of a fist-shaking Jingo figure with a flag behind him, watched by nervous caricatures of European nations.

The jingo bully

1897

Colored lithograph of sleeping Europe beside munitions and a candle labeled Ambition, with animal figures and an angel with a

A peace dream of Eastertime

1899

Colour cartoon of a shaggy Lincoln figure looking down at a frog labeled Roosevelt on a log in a pond.

Or bust

1912

Colour lithograph of a crowned man in a sleigh with a child, pursued by wolves through a snowy forest with skeletons and crow

Nearing the end

1905

Colored cartoon of a haloed winged figure holding a SHIP SUBSIDY tablet above a praying woman in a meadow.

The vision of Joan of New Hampshire

1906

Colored 1905 political cartoon of a caricatured Roman-costumed man on a chariot pulled by an elephant, with crowds before the

Ave Theodore!

1905

Satirical 1909 print of a speeding red car surrounded by newspaper headlines reporting automobile accidents and pedestrian de

Privileged sport

1909

Colour cartoon of two men with PROMISES and RECORD papers facing Uncle Sam on a ship deck, by Udo Keppler, 1908.

The safer choice

1908

Caricature of pirates dividing gold coins on a beach, with ships offshore, lithograph by Udo Keppler, 1906.

Declaring a dividend

1906

Color lithograph of a seated woman watching a couple and a uniformed man with roses in a garden with a fountain.

The jilted fiancée

1898

Caricature of a frightened man gripping a charging bull labeled Coal Operators' Combine, his hat flying off.

He took the bull by the horns; but

1902

Colored cartoon of a tug of war over trade, with a gate marked trade restriction and a flag reading open door policy.

The tug of war in the far east

1898

Colour cartoon of a Chinese figure and haloed Christ shaking hands above clouds, with flag-bearing figures below.

Are our teachings, then, in vain

1900

Night cartoon of a crowned figure reclining over a sprawling industrial city while figures lie prostrate below.

Bearers of evil tidings

1911

Cartoon of an employer pointing at a notice about the right to lock out while three workers look on, with construction behind

The only way out - fighting them with their own weapons

1903

Colored cartoon of a football pile-up of trust figures labeled Beef, Coal, Tobacco and Tariff, with cheering spectators.

Down!

1905

Colour caricature of four oversized financiers in turbans and robes leaning over a table, with a tiny arbiter at a desk below

Gulliver Cleveland and the Wall Street Brobdingnagians

1906

Colored cartoon of a seated man on a throne, with gentlemen recoiling and framed scenes of a lion and a swordsman on the wall

It makes a difference where you are

1901

Colored cartoon of a grinning red balloon face lifting a crowd of men in a basket over a coastline, dated 1906.

On to Washington!

1906

Colored cartoon of Uncle Sam gesturing to a department store while a crowd rushes in and foreign figures rage on a hill.

Let the foreigner rage!

1901

Cartoon: a sheep labeled THE LAW stands over a dead lamb labeled CONSUMER while crows labeled trusts and tariff gather in sno

Anguish

1910

Colored cartoon of a man in a pith helmet carried on a guide's back up a rocky mountain path toward a St. Louis Convention si

A rocky road and a bad guide

1904

Sailing ship with American flag steers between a whirlpool labeled Socialism and a cliff labeled Plutocracy in a storm.

A case for careful navigation

1906

Colored 1907 cartoon by Udo Keppler of a many-headed strongman juggling buildings, money bags and animals above a horizon.

The greatest juggling act on earth

1907

Two-panel cartoon: a top-hatted man pins a bull in red coat, then the bull charges and throws the man into the air.

The beginning and the end

1899

Colored cartoon of a bearded Moses-like figure holding satirical tablets, with beams labeled Radicalism and Conservatism and

The Democratic Moses and his selfmade commandments

1906

Colored cartoon of Uncle Sam leaping over a globe carrying a Canal Contractor book while a startled customs figure reaches to

Canal business is business

1905

Caricature of a worker with halo and a politician beside industrial smokestacks, as immigrants board a ship under a starvatio

In the name of labor

1912

Caricature of Uncle Sam raising a paddle in a legislative chamber as a giant hand labeled The Big Interests reaches down.

The leader of the minority

1908

Colour cartoon of Uncle Sam swatting a swarm of mosquitoes labeled with political terms above a swamp at sunset.

If you want to get rid of mosquitos, drain the swamp that breeds them

1909