Photo of Puck,Rival Advertising Show,1883,Gillam,Villard,Hatch,Schurz,Stock

Title: The great rival advertising shows to 'boom up' stocks / Gillam.
Creator(s): Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1883 September 5.
Summary: Print shows three 'advertising' sideshows, on the left, the 'Great Northern Pacific R.R. Show Patronized by the European Aristocracy' with Henry Villard as the barker and Carl Schurz playing a drum; includes portraits hanging on the side of the tent showing a 'Famous German Painter engaged at a cost of $15,000!!!', a 'Celebrated German Author, A Live German Baron!!, British Interests Member of Parliament, A Genuine English Lord, the real article, Bavarian General, [and] English Aristocrat'. On the right is the 'Great Yellowstone Park Show' with 'Uncle Rufus Hatch' as barker and Charles A. Dana playing the trombone; includes portraits hanging on the side of the tent showing a 'Scout, Arthur's Cabinet [Robert Todd Lincoln], Little 'Phil' Sheridan, Great American General, [and] President Arthur' fishing. At center, in the background, is the 'Western Union Show' with Jay Gould sitting in front of a tent labeled 'Happy Family Inside'. Between the sideshows are several well-dressed, serious-minded men, one labeled 'Investor', considering the merits of each show before investing.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: Showman Villard 'Step up and invest! Here you have English lords, German barons, foreign authors, bankers, poets - all imported expressly for this show, at enormous expense!' / Uncle Rufus 'Here you are! This is the only genuine patriotic American show. Put your money here!'
Bound copy is damaged with loss of text at bottom; caption transcribed from 2nd copy.
Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 339, (1883 September 5), centerfold.
2nd copy illus. from: Puck, v. 14, no. 339 (1883 September 5), centerfold.
Library has two copies, one bound in vol. 12 and the second copy in LOT 14014.
Copyright 1883 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
2nd copy forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Villard, Henry,--1835-1900.
Schurz, Carl,--1829-1906.
Hatch, Rufus,--b. 1832.
Dana, Charles A.--(Charles Anderson),--1819-1897.
Gould, Jay,--1836-1892.
Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Sideshows--1880-1890.
Venture capital--1880-1890.
Captialists & financiers--1880-1890.
Stock market--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2012645511/
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