This chromolithograph from Puck magazine Illustration shows a woman labeled "Republican Party" asleep in the background, with members of her court, some dressed as women, also asleep, in the foreground; depicted are Whitlaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Russell Sage, John Roach, Jay Gould, Benjamin F. Butler, James G. Blaine, William H. Vanderbilt, John Logan, Cyrus W. Field, two dogs labeled "Phila. Press" and "Chicago Tribune", Chester A. Arthur, Rutherford B. Hayes, William W. Phelps, John Sherman, Simon Cameron, George F. Hoar, Alonzo B. Cornell, Stephen W. Dorsey, Thomas J. Brady, William M. Evarts, George M. Robeson, William E. Chandler, and Joseph W. Keifer.
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Caption: She bungled with the civil-service reform distaff, and she and all her court were condemned to sleep for - years.
Illus. from Puck, v. 17, no. 442, (1885 August 26), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
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This comes from the collection of a Mr. Louis A. Martin who was born in the year of 1835 in Switzerland. Mr. Martin was a watchmaker by trade and eventually resided in Hoboken New Jersey with his wife and two sons. Mr. Martin managed to amass a large collection of newspapers and other American and foreign paper ephemera. Discovered decades ago in the backyard shed of the brownstone he lived in and kept stored until now. In his collection were many “clippings” of articles and illustrations and other clippings of news articles as well as single pages of Puck Magazine, The Judge Magazine and a collection of Harper’s Weekly as well as other American and foreign paper ephemera.
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