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Let us have Peace, Now A President's Elected political cartoon, 1880

In order to meet the publication deadline, Joseph Keppler was forced to draw the cartoon before the results of the election were known.  Faced with this challenge, he made a puzzle and hid the faces of sixteen political figures within the cartoon.  Keppler made puzzles out of several other...

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Main Author: Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894 (Creator)
Collection:Historical Society of Pennsylvania cartoons and caricatures collection (#3133)
Date:1880-11-03
Alternate Date:November 3, 1880
Extent:1 loose sheet
Box Number:Box 7
Folder Number:Folder 27
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Keppler & Schwarzmann
Subjects and Genres:
Political cartoons
Chromolithograph
Clipping
Copyright:Public Domain
Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/1801
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title Let us have Peace, Now A President's Elected political cartoon, 1880
spellingShingle Let us have Peace, Now A President's Elected political cartoon, 1880
Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894
title_sort Let us have Peace, Now A President's Elected political cartoon, 1880
title_txt_mv Let us have Peace, Now A President's Elected political cartoon, 1880
date_txt_mv 1880-11-03
year_str_mv 1880
display_date_txt_mv November 3, 1880
creator_txt_mv Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894 (Creator)
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author_role Creator
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publisher_txt_mv Keppler & Schwarzmann
publisher Keppler & Schwarzmann
genre Political cartoons
Chromolithograph
Clipping
extent_txt_mv 1 loose sheet
description In order to meet the publication deadline, Joseph Keppler was forced to draw the cartoon before the results of the election were known.&nbsp; Faced with this challenge, he made a puzzle and hid the faces of sixteen political figures within the cartoon.&nbsp; Keppler made puzzles out of several other political cartoons including <em>A Presidential Ride through the Haunted Forest</em>&nbsp; and <em>The Deadly Upas Tree of Wall Street.</em><br /> &nbsp;In the cartoon Lady Republican and Lady Democrat shake hands. The faces of the presidential candidates of the 1880 election, as well as other notable political figures,are hidden in the rocks, trees, and lake. The faces include: James A. Garfield, Carl Schurz, Marshall Jewell, James Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, Benjamin Butler, William Hayden English, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester Arthur, Thomas Bayard, John Kelly, Winfield Hancock, Samuel Tilden, Rutherford Hayes, John Logan,and Abram Hewitt.<br /> There are handwritten notes next to some of the hidden faces.&nbsp; The staff at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania was able to identify fifteen of the sixteen faces hidden in the cartoon.&nbsp; Staff was unable to find the sixteenth image of Abram Hewitt.
language English
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