Photo of Puck,The Sleeping Sickness,1911,Gordon Ross,African Man,Imperialism

Title: The sleeping sickness / Gordon Ross.
Creator(s): Ross, Gordon, 1873-1946, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, 1911 October 25.
Summary: Illustration shows a large African man sitting, leaning against a tree, asleep; several European countries are staking claims to portions of Africa, planting flags labeled 'England, Portugal, Belgium, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Spain, [and] France' all around the sleeping man.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: Cutting a continent out from under him.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 70, no. 1808 (1911 October 25), centerfold.
Copyright 1911 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Imperialism--1910-1920.
Sleeping--1910-1920.
Africans--Civil rights--1910-1920.
Africa--Symbolic representation--1910-1920.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1910-1920.
Offset photomechanical prints--Color--1910-1920.
Periodical illustrations--1910-1920.
Bookmark /2011649074/
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