Kipling's Terrible Nightmare, 1903 Box 2, Folder 29
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bound issue from January 14, 1903; Vol LII, no. 1350. Lithographs address international relations between Germany and Great Britain; labor unions, strikes, anarchism, and classism. Lithographs include "Kipling's Terrible Nightmare" (title page; shows Rudyard Kipling sitting up in his bed in fear, beside him is a side table with an inkpot labeled "Hatred" on top. Kipling is dreaming of the "Anglo-German Alliance," showing Edward VII (King of Britain) and William II (Emperor of Germany) embracing); "The Microbe of Unionism" (shows a vignette cartoon with a puppeteer labeled "Labor Agitator," his puppets are people from various social classes. The vignettes around the central "Labor Agitator" figure show the puppets in various life situations as union leaders, labor agitators, and educational classism)
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