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NY - New York,1888-1901 - Puck/Judge Illustrations on U. S. Business

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NY - New York,1888-1901 - Puck/Judge Illustrations on U. S. Business
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Group of 5. 1. Judge, Volume 15, No. 371, 24 November 1888. Magazine cover illustrated by Emil Flohri. President Cleveland is partially buried by snow in this illustration. The landscape is mountainous and Cleveland is in unfamiliar territory. The story on the back of the cover talks about Cleveland selling out U. S. free trade interests to British trade interests, thus the bestowment of the title “Tradeior” on the President. Measures 10.50” by 14.” Some foxing in the lower right corner and a small nick on the right side. Good condition. 2. Puck, Volume XXVI, No. 671, New York edition, 15 January 1890 magazine cover. Drawn by Louis Dalrymple. Uncle Sam is waving a tariff reform flag. Apparently, a few characters such as John Wanamaker, President McKinley, Jim Blaine and a Mr. Quay are blockading attempts at free trade ventures and tariff reforms. The government is attempting to break up monopolies during this time, but McKinley’s administration does not do it. When Teddy Roosevelt took over as president in 1901 after McKinley’s assassination, he began the long and arduous task of breaking up the large companies using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1892. Measures 10.50” by 14.” Excellent condition. 3. Puck, Volume XXX, No. 757, 9 September 1891, New York edition. Magazine cover drawn by F. Opper. This illustration speaks to the rain drought the U. S. plains were experiencing. There are two drummers trying to sell a farmer a rainmaking machine. The west was sold as fertile farmland to many wanting to homestead there. During the latter 1800s the plains experienced both abundant rainfall and times of water drought. What people thought was water drought periods were really normal for the plains areas and the rainfall was abnormal. Farming techniques were not altered for the plains’ environment either, so when the Dust Bowl of the 1930s hit no one should have been surprised, but most were. Measures 10.50” by 14.” There is a small tear on the bottom right edge and a small fold on the right edge, otherwise the cover is in good condition. 4. Puck, Volume XLIX, No. 1255, 27 March 1901, New York edition. The cover was drawn by Joseph Keppler, who also founded Puck. This cover has a kindly looking, huge Abe Lincoln dressed in a red flannel working shirt, denim jeans, and lowered leather suspenders holding an axe in one hand while putting his other hand on the shoulder of a miniscule man dressed up as a U. S. Rear Admiral in special dress uniform. This man is supposed to be J. Pierpont Morgan. In 1901, Morgan had just put together the biggest steel conglomerate in the world. He was at the height of his financial career in the first decade of the 1900s and critics said he controlled most of the U. S.’s finances. Lincoln is advising Morgan, who has businesses and a home in Britain, and who has British ancestry, to be more accepting of the regular American working man. Lincoln says “Don’t you think, Sonny, that your ‘five o’clock tea’ rule might shut out some good men?” Measures 10.50” by 14.” Two spots of foxing otherwise in excellent condition. 5. Judge, Volume 41, No. 1034, 10 August 1901. Drawn by Grant Hamilton. This colorful magazine cover has a J. Pierpont Morgan dressed in an comical rendition of an early 1800s French military uniform with a organ grinder’s monkey’s hat perched sideways on his head and white gloves on his hands that have dollar signs on them. Morgan is defending Fort U. S. Steel, his conglomerate. Charles Michael Schwab’s head is on the cannon’s powder swab. He and Morgan were both steel businessmen. Schwab helped Morgan build his steel conglomerate behind the scenes. The cannon is pointed toward Fort Labor situated across the harbor. Having a monopoly allowed Morgan to keep labor costs down. Measures 10.50” by 14.” In good condition.

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