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One loose title page from Puck Vol. XXXI, no. 792. Shows Benjamin Harrison sitting in an oversized, white hat placed upon a ornate "Presidential Chair." He is yelling at "the big 4:" Thomas Platt, William H.H. Miller, Chauncey Depew, and Frank Hiscock

bound issue from August 24, 1892; Vol XXIII, no. 807. Lithographs address the Republican party protecting monopolists, campaign funds, and Republican party boss Matthew Quay; the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair); dating culture. Lithographs include "The New Cook in the Republican Kitchen" (title page; shows T.H Carter holding an oversized "frying pan for protected monopolists," looking through a window at senators Quay and Dorsey peering into Carter's "Republican Fat-Frying" kitchen. Below Carter is a open safe spilling "campaign funds" onto the floor); "An Unholy Alliance" (shows a "rich bigot" and "Chicago dive-keeper" shaking hands in agreement in front of a gate fastened with an oversized lock. The gate has a sign stating "World's Fair Closed on Sundays." Behind them, crowds are directed towards a "dive, always open" and a church as a result of the World's Fair closure); "Wanted! Young Men at Our Summer Resorts" (shows a vignette of dating culture between young men and women)

One loose title page from Puck Vol. XXXII, no. 807. Shows T.H Carter holding an oversized "frying pan for protected monopolists," looking through a window at senators Quay and Dorsey peering into Carter's "Republican Fat-Frying" kitchen. Below Carter is a open safe spilling "campaign funds" onto the floor

bound issue from October 5, 1892; Vol XXXIII, no. 813. Lithographs address British free trade, taxes, tariffs, protectionism; free ballot initiatives and control of elections; Benjamin Harrison and the GOP; Republican losses in various U.S. states, including Maine and Vermont, and the failures of the Republican party. Lithographs include "The Perennial 'Protection Game'" (title page; shows McKinley speaking to a "unsuspecting taxpayer," warning the taxpayer of an Englishman walking away from them holding a briefcase labeled "British Free Trade"); "The Great Republican Bluff" (shows Benjamin Harrison standing on a tree stump placed atop a platform labeled "I and the Republican party are in favor of a Free Ballot and an honest count of Harrison's letter of acceptance." A bag is placed next to Harrison labeled "Peck's Doctored Statistics." To the right of Harrison is a group of angry spectators are seen pointing at a fat, rich character wearing a belt labeled "Boodle" holding a object labeled "Control of Elections" and a cane labeled "Bribery." The "Boodle" is sitting on a platform labeled "Republican Supremacy," which is being held up by two layers of men labeled "Steal of Senators in Dakota," "Steal of Senators in Montana," "Dudley," "1888" and "Steal of Senators" in other states); "The Grand Old Party of Inexhaustible Excuses" (shows a vignette of various Republican senators making excuses for the "growing demoalization of the Republican Party")

two bound issues from August 31, 1892; Vol XXII, no. 808. Lithographs address law and order vs violence; William McKinley and his 1890 McKinley Tariff. Lithographs include "The Safeguard and the Commonwealth" (title page; shows a Union soldier protecting a woman labeled "Law and Order" from a man labeled"Violence." The man is holding a burning torch in his hand and confronting the solider); "Protected" (shows William McKinley surrounded by vignettes of violence, mill explosions, lost homesteaders, war, and death. McKinley is rubbing his hands together and exclaming his citizens are happy and contented due to his "Glorious War-Tariff-Eclisping Protective System); "An Expedient that Failed" (shows an 8-frame comic detailing a young boy hiding his dog and a young woman hiding her lover from their father)