Our Country Solons, 1888
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- Box 1, Folder 13
- Scope and content:
bound issue from April 18, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 580. Lithographs address various topics, including: various U.S. governmental departments, the election of Benjamin Harrison to president in 1888 and associated policies; and Otto von Bismarck, Prussian statesman and first Chancellor of the German Empire. Lithographs include "Our Country Solons" (title page; shows a "Hayseed Legislator" sitting upon a stump labaled "150 miles to New York," a rake sitting on his lap. He is looking towards a ship marooned on low waters, its sails labeled "Dept of Charities and Corrections," "Building Dept," "Board of Helath," "Taxes and Assessments," "Excise Dept," "Fire Dept," "Board of Apportionment," "Dept Public Works," and "Police Dept"); "The Republicans' Presidential See-Saw" (shows a group of Republican senators on one side of a see-saw and Benjamin Harrison on the other. Harrison is tipping the see-saw [labeled "Republican Party"] towards his side, burdened with bags of "Unburned Letters" and "Moral Ideas," a large rock labeled "Little Rock," a bayonette with a white shirt labaled "Bloody Shirt," and a large, oversized magnet worn over his shoulders. Harrison is wearing a bellow as a hat, from the tip blows gusts of air labaled "Credit Mobilizer," "Jingoism," and "Bluster." Behind them is the U.S. Capitol, seen in the distance); "Love vs. Diplomacy" (shows Otto Von Bismarck holding letters labeled "protest" and a sword labeled "Diplomacy," a scared dog hiding behind his legs. Cubid is fending off Bismarck with one of his arrows as a scene with two lovers is seen behind him)
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