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A Selection of Cartoons from Puck

Chapter 59: INDEX
By Joseph Ferdinand Keppler
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This collection gathers satirical pictorial essays and caricatures originally published in a humor magazine, pairing sharp visual exaggeration with allegorical scenes to comment on political and social issues of the late nineteenth century. An introductory essay explains the artist’s German-influenced approach that fuses caricature and cartooning into dramatic parables, and the plates reproduce large, detailed cartoons with accompanying captions and an index to aid interpretation. The volume emphasizes visual wit, topical parody, and the interplay of character drawing and symbolic narrative.

INDEX

  Page
A Harmless Explosion 27
A Humiliating Spectacle 67
A Little Change; or, Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows 3
A Merry Christmas to All 47
A Midsummer Day’s Dream 103
An Attack on our Outer Ramparts 15
Arbitration is the True Balance of Power 155
A Russian Nocturne 107
“A Sail! A Sail!” 51
At Last! 95
Between Slavery and Starvation 167
Blaine Leaving the Capitol—“I Go—But I return” 79
Consistency 207
Consolidated 11
First Annual Picnic of the “Knights of Labor” 151
“For Whatsoever a Man Soweth, that Shall He also Reap” 159
Frederick III. of Germany—The End of a Brave Life 123
Good Gracious! 135
He Beats Barnum 139
Helping the Rascals In 83
In Memoriam Emperor William I. 115
In the Clutches of the Monster 183
It isn’t the Cowl that Makes the Monk 211
Just the Difference 43
Let us have Peace, now a President’s Elected 59
Napoleon’s Retreat 195
On the Road 63
Opening a Little Campaign all by Himself 75
Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle 39
“Prohibition is Coming!” 147
Puck’s Political Hunting Ground 31
Puck’s Sample Speakers of Moral Ideas 203
Quality Counts 87
Restless Nights 191
Samuel J. Tilden 55
“Shake!” 127
Siegfried, The Fearless, In the Political Dismal Swamp 99
The Big Boycott Wind-bag 179
The Carol of the “Waits” 91
The Cinderella of the Republican Party and her Haughty Sisters 23
The Democ-rats Caught in the Presidential Trap 7
The European Equilibrist 119
The Mephistopheles of To-day—Honest Labor’s Temptation 175
The Murderer’s Straight Route to Heaven 143
The Opening of the Congressional Session 187
The Political “Army of Salvation” 19
The Poverty Problem Solved 163
The Raven 215
The Reign of Peace.—The Mouse is Safe While the Moon Shines 111
The Situation in Germany 131
The Suckers of the Working-man’s Sustenance 171
The Universal Church of the Future 35
The War of the Operas 219
They hate the Light, but They can’t Escape it 199
Uncle Sam’s Lodging House 71
With “Health and Wealth and Luck to All!” 223