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Udo Keppler

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Illustration of a man with a hat crouched in burning prairie grass, with fiery smoke faces and wildfire on the horizon.

The back fire

1907

Caricature of a reclining well-dressed man smoking, sunlit garden on the left, smoky factory city on the right, dreaming of a

Lights and shadows

1909

Night scene of men climbing a fortress wall toward Ottawa and a caged Independent Press, while others carry money bags below.

The alarm

1911

Colored 1906 political cartoon showing a man labeled Tillman raising a whip over a kneeling figure labeled Negro Voter beside

The political uncle tommers

1906

Colored cartoon of a cannon labeled Dept. of Justice firing at a raft whose sail lists corrupt officials as targets.

Aim higher!

1909

Colour caricature of Uncle Sam refereeing two boxers in a ring while suited men watch from behind the ropes.

Members of this club

1912

Colored cartoon of a church wedding interrupted by a crowd of pig-headed men; bride labeled Canada, Uncle Sam nearby.

The interrupted ceremony

1911

Colored cartoon of a uniformed ruler on a rocky crag holding a flag while soldiers with sabres climb toward him.

Nicholas of Montenegro

1913

Caricature of a muscular giant with a log confronting a small figure holding a sword and a shield labeled The Constitution.

Jack and the gian

1907

Colored cartoon of a plumed armored leader and soldiers marching past a seated old man by a shield, under a sun with a face.

If anybody should ask him

1910

Cartoon of Uncle Sam tossing a life preserver to a drowning railroad executive while an ICC official watches from a bridge.

And in the meantime

1913

Colored cartoon of a winged horse with a branch above a crowded ship labeled Democratic Principles beside mountains.

The return of the dove to the ark

1910

Colored caricature of a man with a megaphone and gavel riding a second man up a rocky path labeled Administration Problem.

Some burden, believe us

1913

Colored cartoon of four men seated arm in arm on a bench above two small figures fighting in a ring, by Udo Keppler, 1909.

The laughter of the gods

1909

Colored cartoon of panicked top-hatted men carrying labeled documents fleeing a volcano inscribed Common Honesty.

The panic

1907

Colour cartoon of a woman with an umbrella labeled Intolerance beside a water wheel, a log saloon and a flag-topped mountain

The closed canteen and the open dive

1911

Robed figures labeled Government and Business gaze at stars spelling a message above a rocky seaside cliff at night.

Government and business enter upon a new era of good feeling

1914

Caricature of a commercial trust man and a labor trust worker with a strike club, with a kneeling consumer between them.

Between two of a kind

1902

Colored print of a storm-tossed ship labeled Republican Machine beneath a green wave and a ghostly galleon in the clouds.

The flying dutchman

1910

Colour cartoon of a sunburst with a cross, dark clouds with cannon on the left, and rabbits and chicks on clouds.

Easter forecast - increasing cloudiness

1910

Caricature of trust figures in colonial uniforms beside a Minute Man statue marked Spirit of '76, 1909.

Nothing left but a statue

1909

Colored caricature of men at a dinner table as a chef carries in a roasted turkey with a caricatured head.

Bringing in the Teddy-turk

1908

Colored cartoon of a radiant crowned figure on steps, with a crowd of men in suits below raising fists, labeled GREED.

Crucify him! Crucify him!

1913

Colored cartoon of delegates reacting at a peace conference table as a man in a suit presents a battleship proposal note.

How the peace congress receives its first practical suggestion

1913

Colored cartoon of a scowling armored warrior watching an elderly crowned man embrace a woman in white with a sash reading Fr

Too late

1903

Caricature of a heavyset man seated on a US map holding two contradictory notices to American workers and foreign labor, 1912

The two-faced protectionist

1912

Colored cartoon of a stout figure labeled Special Privilege climbing snowy steps at night while a cloaked figure waits below.

The tariff ‘wait’

1908

Caricatured men roped together climb a steep glacier while an elephant and a winch machine sit at the bottom of the slope.

Hanging on

1912

Colour print of a man on a ship's bowsprit at night holding a dead albatross pierced by an arrow.

He killed the albatross

1913

Colour cartoon of a hunter aiming a rifle at a stag in an autumn forest while a top-hatted man sneaks behind a birch.

Oh, pardon me! I mistook you for the deer

1911

Colored political caricature of a man in red climbing a moonlit balcony toward a FREE SILVER moon, watched by figures labeled

Anything to oblige

1906

Colored caricature of a weeping elephant labeled G.O.P. with robed politicians in a barred prison cell.

The hemlock cup of the Republican Socrates

1911