The fly in the ointment,War News,1898,Canteen,Spanish American War,Laziness

Title: [The fly in the ointment]
Creator(s): Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905, artist
Date Created/Published: 1898 Aug. 3 [publication date]
Summary: Two men, one smoking a pipe and the other holding a newspaper titled 'War News,' recline against sheaves of wheat in a harvested field. A canteen and rucksack lie at their feet.
Notes:
Inscribed in pencil lower right: War is Hell isn't it?
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Published caption reads: Dusty Rhoades. Say, Weary! I'm goin' to dem Fillypener Islands. Dey say dat all de food yer need grows right on trees. Weary Walker (with a look of scorn). Dat's just like yer! Yer ain't got no far-sightedness. Don't yer know dat dem people as lives in der Tropics are so blamed lazy dat yer wouldn't be able ter git no one ter pick it off fer yer?
Signed, lower right: Dalrymple.
Title from Puck.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.927)
Published in: Puck, August 3, 1898.
Published in: The image of America in caricature & cartoon / Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Fort Worth : The Museum, 1975, p. 110.
Exhibited: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 'The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon,' 1976.
Subjects:
Filipinos--1890-1900.
Spanish-American War, 1898--Military personnel--American.
Laziness--1890-1900.
Cartoons (Commentary)--American--1890-1900.
Drawings--American--1890-1900.
Periodical illustrations--American--1890-1900.
Bookmark /2009616563/
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