Unpleasant Ride Through the Presidential Haunted Forest political cartoon, 1884
Permanent ID:
1805Language:
EnglishDate:
May 28 1884Image Description:
Uncle Sam and Columbia are riding through a haunted forest in a horse drawn carriage. The faces of twenty-two presidential hopefuls for the 1884 election are hidden in landscape. The figure of Samuel Tilden can be seen between two trees located next to the bridge.Keppler made similar puzzles out of several other political cartoons including Let us have Peace, Now A President's Elected and The Deadly Upas Tree of Wall Street.
Format:
Political cartoons; Chromolithographs; ClippingsPublisher:
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania cartoons and caricatures collectionRelated People or Organizations:
Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894 (artist)Meyer, Merkel, & Ottman (lithographer)
Biunno, Diane (Transcribed by)
Biunno, Diane (Encoded by)
Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann (lithographer)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (repository)
Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 (depicted)
Keppler & Schwarzmann (publisher)