Photo of Puck,Family Party,Uncle Sam's Adopted Children,1883,Graetz,Steuben

Title: A family party - the 200th birthday of the healthiest of Uncle Sam's adopted children / F. Graetz.
Creator(s): Graetz, F. (Friedrich), ca. 1840-ca. 1913, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1883 October 3.
Summary: Print shows Uncle Sam standing at the head of a table at a dinner party in honor of the 'Bi-Centennial Celebration of the First German Settlement', with Columbia sitting next to him; around the table are a 'Spaniard, Swede, German, Englishman, Russian, Chinese, Irishman' and at the far end an 'Italian' hurdy-gurdy man, also a 'French' chef entering on the left, carrying a large peacock on a tray and an African American servant spilling trays of food on the Englishman and the Chinese man. In a cradle on the floor next to Columbia are two infants labeled 'Malagasy' and 'Corean'. Uncle Sam is offering a toast to the well-dressed German man standing at center; Puck, standing on the front side of the table, holding his lithographic pencil, offers a bouquet of flowers. Hanging from a garland on the wall in the background, beneath the heading 'Germantown 1683-1883', are portraits of Baron von 'Steuben', George 'Washington', and Marquis de 'Lafayette'.
Notes:
Title from item.
Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 343, (1883 October 3), centerfold.
Copyright 1883 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin,--Baron von,--1730-1794.
Washington, George,--1732-1799.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier,--Marquis de,--1757-1834.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1880-1890.
Columbia (Symbolic character)--1880-1890.
Centennial celebrations--1880-1890.
Dinner parties--1880-1890.
Eating & drinking--1880-1890.
Toasting--1880-1890.
Organ grinders--1880-1890.
African Americans--Employment--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2012645524/
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