Photo of Puck,Monopoly in Hades,Jay Gould's Arrival,1883,Opper,Railroad,Devil

Title: Monopoly in Hades--How the place will be run, two years after Jay Gould's arrival / F. Opper.
Creator(s): Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1883 September 19.
Summary: Illustration showing Jay Gould as the Devil holding a paper labeled 'Majority of Stock', standing outside an office labeled 'Successor to Satan'; he is presiding over the 'Hades & World Lightning Transportation Line' which is a railroad train headed for a station labeled 'Terminus - President Jay Gould', the locomotive is labeled 'Crasher' and uses 'Brimstone' for fuel, a passenger car is labeled 'Only Anti-Monopolists Carried', also the 'Sulphuric Telegraph Co. - Gould Pres.' which has many devil-like demons stringing wire cables on telegraph poles and an office where telegraph operators work at desks beneath a sign that states 'Any Imp who attempts to strike will be transferred to the Western Union Company', as well as 'The Bottomless Pit Roasting Co. - Jay Gould, Pres.' where an 'Anti-Monopolist editor', 'Puck', and 'Thurber' are roasted 'in effigy'. At bottom, a man labeled 'Satan Janitor', with bandages, carries a scuttle filled with brimstone?, a watering-can labeled 'Kerosene', a broom, and a key ring, skulks down the steps from Gould's office.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: How the place will be run, two years after Jay Gould's arrival.
Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 341, (1883 Sept. 19), centerfold.
2nd copy illus. from: Puck, v. 14, no. 341 (1883 September 19), centerfold.
Library has two copies, one bound in vol. 12 and the second copy in LOT 14014.
Bound copy is damaged with loss of text at bottom; caption transcribed from 2nd copy.
Copyright 1883 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
2nd copy forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Gould, Jay,--1836-1892.
Monopolies--1880-1890.
Railroads--1880-1890.
Communication--1880-1890.
Telegraph lines--1880-1890.
Utility poles--1880-1890.
Telegraph offices--1880-1890.
Effigies--1880-1890.
Devil--1880-1890.
Demons--1880-1890.
Hell--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
Bookmark /96500423/
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