Photo of Puck,Gambling with Death,1883,Gillam,Insurance,Grim Reaper,Shipwreck

Title: Gambling with death / Gillam.
Creator(s): Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1883 January 24.
Summary: Illustration shows, at center, a capitalist, sitting on money bags labeled 'Insurance Money' and leaning against several papers labeled 'New Policy', gambling with the Grim Reaper, while all around them disasters are happening, a panic-stricken crowd flees a burning theater, a hotel and a tenement building are on fire, a side-wheeler steam ship has exploded, an ocean liner sinks, and a railroad train has crashed; at each of these disasters is a notice that states 'Heavily Insured'.
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Title from item.
Caption: Too Enterprising American Capitalist Keep up the game! I can lose nothing - I'm heavily insured.
Illus. from Puck, v. 12, no. 307, (1883 January 24), centerfold.
Copyright 1883 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)--1880-1890.
Insurance--1880-1890.
Gambling--1880-1890.
Shipwrecks--1880-1890.
Fires--1880-1890.
Explosions--1880-1890.
Railroad accidents--1880-1890.
Capitalists & financiers--1880-1890.
Death--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2012645442/
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