Photo of Puck,Four Rips,20 years behind the age,1885,Bernhard Gillam,Blaine

Title: The four Rips; or, twenty years behind the age / Gillam.
Creator(s): Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1885 September 16.
Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam seated at a table in front of 'Uncle Sam's Inter-State Market' with a businessman labeled 'Northern Capital' on the right and an agricultural producer labeled 'Southern Goods - Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Whiskey' on the left. Standing before the table are James G. Blaine labeled 'Bloody Shirt', John Sherman, Whitelaw Reid, and Joseph B. Foraker, who all have long flowing hair and beards like Rip Van Winkle; Blaine is leaning on a rifle labeled 'Shot Gun'. Two young African American men are sitting on a bale of cotton and a keg of 'Tobacco' in the lower right corner and in the middle ground African Americans are harvesting cotton. In the background, along the shores of a harbor, is a prosperous city.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: Uncle Sam 'My fossil friends, the War ended twenty years ago. Have you been sleeping ever since?'
Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 445, (1885 September 16), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Blaine, James Gillespie,--1830-1893.
Sherman, John,--1823-1900.
Reid, Whitelaw,--1837-1912.
Foraker, Joseph Benson,--1846-1917.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1880-1890.
Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character)
Bloody shirt--1880-1890.
Sectionalism (United States)--1880-1890.
Business people--1880-1890.
African Americans--Civil rights--1880-1890.
Commerce--1880-1890.
Older people--1880-1890.
Beards--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
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