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Udo Keppler

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Colorful 1912 caricature of riders charging across desert toward a water hole labeled The Presidency, with men aiming rifles.

The fight for the water-hole

1912

Colorful caricature of two men carrying a pole labeled for contributions toward a seated robed figure under a palm tree.

The return of the scouts

1908

Colour cartoon of a heavy man at a table as a small man swings a Sherman Law mallet at a Monopoly bowl.

Plague take it! Why doesn’t it stay down when I hit it

1911

Color lithograph of a man and woman in a room as a child offers them a rose bouquet, with the Capitol dome visible outside.

Many happy returns of the day

1902

Colored caricature of a man in a brown coat courting a seated woman in a bonnet by a stone fireplace, with a soldier at the d

The courtship of Bill Taft

1907

Colored cartoon of ancient-style chariot race with horses, a crashed chariot, spectators and classical columns.

The chariot race

1910

Cartoon of a large genie in smoke with a turban labeled Wilson, blowing smoke at a small figure labeled Consumer.

Aladdin and the wonderful lamp

1913

Colored cartoon of a crouching ape with a Protected Monopoly cap beside a sleeping black cat before a roaring fireplace.

The catspaw

1912

Golden calf with crown on a stone pedestal while a toppled Statue of Liberty sinks in water at dusk.

Golden cow replaces Liberty

1912

Colour caricature of a dishevelled bearded man seated in a wrecked dining room at dawn, with a city skyline beyond.

The cold gray dawn

1910

Colour caricature of exhausted men in evening dress at a table at midnight, with a baby labelled 1906 entering through a wind

Seeing the old year out

1905

Caricature of a giant blacksmith labeled Big Shippers hammering a small figure on an anvil marked The Railroads, 1906.

The village blacksmith

1906

Colorful 1910 caricature of a rooster carrying several human figures along a road toward a sunrise labeled Progressive Polici

The false loves of chantecler

1910

Colour cartoon of silhouetted black cavalry charging a hillside battle, with a caricature face in the clouds and a red-clad r

The charge of the Black Brigade

1910

Colored 1909 cartoon of a hooded witch on a broom above a crowd, trailing rumor ribbons and scattering financial news.

Dame rumor

1909

Cartoon of railway workers hauling wage sacks into a giant horn labeled Railroad Earnings, while a small man holds a Decrease

The little end of the horn

1913

Colored cartoon of a man beneath a large white elephant labeled Philippines in a legislative chamber, with startled lawmakers

His contribution to the Christmas gayety

1898

Color print of a robed woman hauling a Scientific Research bucket from a well while climbing men and birds appear on the left

Truth is in the well

1910

Colour cartoon of a red-sailed ship labeled Government of, by, and for the People passing rocks where winged politicians call

The siren song of partisanship

1910

Caricature of a mustached man with large head holding a scythe and a law book in a wheat field, with a coat of arms.

Alton Brooks Parker. Farmer, jurist and presidential possibility

1904

Colored cartoon of a comet labeled Albany Investigation hitting a cloud of caricature faces in space, 1910.

Where will it strike next

1910

Colored cartoon of a night street with corrupt-practice signs, a uniformed officer and a man in a hat in front, and figures l

There’s a new captain in the district

1913

Stylized Egyptian-themed cartoon of a pharaoh in a chariot with a donkey, soldiers, a white elephant and a moose, in flat col

The tariff triumph of pharaoh Wilson

1913

Colorful 1910 cartoon of a broken Republican elephant and Democratic donkey facing each other under a rising sun with the wor

Now we see through a glass, darkly

1910

Color cartoon of sweating President Taft under a funnel of politicians, animals and a tariff label, by Udo Keppler, 1910.

A ticklish feat

1910

Colored cartoon of men in a room gathered around a safe marked The Presidency, with a kneeling man holding anti-populist pape

The combination

1912

Colorful 1910 print of a barefoot man with a staff fleeing a burning walled city under a fiery sky.

Look not behind thee

1910

Colour cartoon of a seated man smoking, a giant shadow labelled Incorporation, and a woman with a shield approaching.

Get after the substance, not the shadow

1910

Colored cartoon of armored classical figures gathered beneath a glowing sword labeled NOMINATION, with a grinning man in a tr

The sword of Theodore

1907

Caricature of a seated wealthy man dropping coins into a charity basket while rent collectors climb steps beside a rents box.

A phase of our tax system - the greater the service, the heavier the tax

1911

Cartoon of mice feasting on a cheese labeled Public Office while a black cat marked The Recall approaches from the right.

The coming of the cat

1911

Colored cartoon of Moses holding the Ten Commandments while a crowd of men in suits gestures and reacts on a rocky hillside.

If Moses came down to-day

1908