Casting His Anchor to Windward, 1889
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- Box 1, Folder 32
- Scope and content:
bound issue from March 27, 1889; Vol XXV, no. 629. Lithographs address Walker Blaine and his involvement with [presumably] the Alabama Claims; Levi Mortan, 22nd vice president of the U.S under Benjamin Harrison, and Republican members of the 50th U.S. Congress; The New York Board of Aldermen (now known as the New York City Council). Lithographs include "Casting His Anchor to Windward" (title page; shows James Blaine wearing a sash labeled "Premier," tossing his son Walker Blaine, who resembles an anchor, into the "Sea of Claims" which is filled with coins and dollar bills); "Gulliver Morton Among the Senatorial Brobdignaggians" (shows L.P. Morton as a small Lilliputian standing in the middle of a round table, surrounded by "Senatorial Brobdignaggians." Morton is banging a gavel labeled "Vice Presidency" on a table while various senators surround him, sneering and laughing); "An April Fool Joke on the New York Board of Aldermen" (shows a small boy entering a meeting of the New York Board of Alderman stating "'Hey, Mister, yer liquor store's on fire!' The boards members are scrambling to attend to the supposed fire)
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