Photo of Puck,Forgotten on Purpose,1882,Gillam,Tax Payer,Special Interests
Title: Forgotten on purpose / Gillam.
Creator(s): Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1882 August 9.
Summary: Print shows a man labeled 'Tax Payer' fallen on steps labeled 'Congress', he has a large boulder labeled 'War Taxes on Iron on Sugar on Cloth Salt Leather [and] Linens' strapped to his back. On the steps is a small stone labeled 'Tax Taken Off Patent Medicines, Perfumery, etc.' In the room at the top of the steps, many hands dip into a bowl of coins labeled 'River & Harbor Bill'.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: 'He asked for bread, and they gave him a stone!'
Illus. from Puck, v. 11, no. 283, (1882 August 9), cover.
Copyright 1882 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
United States.--Congress.
Corruption--1880-1890.
Legislation--1880-1890.
Special interests--1880-1890.
Tax payers--1880-1890.
Taxes--1880-1890.
People with disabilities--1880-1890.
Boulders--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Magazine covers--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
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