Sleeping beauty,Uncle Sam,corruption,Public Funds,National,State,City,Greed,1905

Title: Sleeping beauty
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1905 August 16.
Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam as a sleeping Swiss guard of the 'Public Funds', being overtaken by trees and cobwebs, two dogs are also asleep at this feet. A building on the right labeled 'Public Funds' is being overgrown by a tree labeled 'Corruption' with spreading limbs labeled 'National, State, [and] City', a snake labeled 'Lobbyism' hangs from the branches; rats flee with coins from its coffers. Two spiders labeled 'Graft' and 'Bossism' ply the webs, a tree on the left is labeled 'Ring Rule', and an alligator labeled 'Greed' prowls the foreground among tree roots labeled 'Dead Conscience'. In the background, a vulture labeled 'Monoply' keeps an eye on a candlelight vigil by a person labeled 'Dead Letter Laws' for a female figure labeled 'Honesty'; the candle glows with 'Hope'.
Notes:
Illustration is unsigned, but has the character of a J.S. Pughe or Udo Keppler cartoon.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 58, no. 1485 (1905 August 16), centerfold.
Copyright 1905 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1900-1910.
Sleeping--1900-1910.
Guards--1900-1910.
Corruption--1900-1910.
Spiders--1900-1910.
Cobwebs--1900-1910.
Public debt--1900-1910.
Lobbying--1900-1910.
Special interests--1900-1910.
Candlelight vigils--1900-1910.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1900-1910.
Offset photomechanical prints--Color--1900-1910.
Periodical illustrations--1900-1910.
Bookmark /2011645728/
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