Photo of Puck,Noxious growths in liberty's grounds,1885,Keppler,Civil Rights

Title: Noxious growths in liberty's grounds / J. Keppler.
Creator(s): Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1885 February 25.
Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam and a female figure identified as Liberty strolling through a park among trees labeled 'Equal Rights, Free Press, Free Schools, Free Speech, Free Ballot, Constitution, [and] Religious Liberty'; around the bases of the trees are many mushrooms labeled 'Total Abstinence Fanatics, Monopoly, Socialist, Nihilist, Dynamiter, Communist, Anarchist, Demagogism, Bribery, [and] Corrupt', and a vine labeled 'Protection' is beginning to strangle a tree labeled 'Unrestricted Commerce'. Puck, sitting on a tree branch, tells Uncle Sam that he needs to clear out the fungus before it destroys 'Liberty's' park. Some of the mushrooms have faces that might be identified.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: Uncle Sam Hello, Puck, are you 'up a tree'? - Puck No, but you will be if you don't clear this stuff out pretty soon!
Illus. from Puck, v. 16, no. 416, (1885 February 25), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1880-1890.
Liberty--Symbolic representation--1880-1890.
Civil rights--1880-1890.
Mushrooms--1880-1890.
Anarchism--1880-1890.
Communism--1880-1890.
Trees--1880-1890.
Parks--1880-1890.
Trails & paths--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2011661824/
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