Puck Easter/The Easter's Hat, 1903
- Containers:
- Box 2, Folder 37
- Scope and content:
bound issue from April 9, 1903; Vol LIII, no. 1362. Extra lithograph included on the front page of an Easter bunny giving eggs to a eager child. Lithographs address the Easter holiday; U.S. military armaments and defense; William Jennings Bryan's defeat and loss of power and Arthur P. Gorman, leader of the Bourbon Democrat faction in the Democratic Party, gaining power after Bryan's loss. Other lithographs include "The Easter Hat" (internal title page; shows a frowning Uncle Sam standing beside a disgruntled Columbia dressed in garments resembling the U.S. flag and a tiara in her hair labeled "Columbia." Columbia is holding a Easter bonnet she has taken out of a hat box, the bonnet has a battleship design labeled "U.S. Navy;" Columbia is upset at the size of the hat); "The Passing of Lent" (shows William Jennings Bryan [right], Arthur P. Gorman [left], and a figure labeled "Democratic Party" [middle] standing outside of a church. William Jennings Bryan is dressed in friar's robe labeled "16 to 1," and looks disapprovingly towards a matronly woman dressed in a bonnet and long dress. The woman is smiling as she looks towards Arthur P. Gorman who is dressed as the devil)
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