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Title
The national dime-museum - will be run during the presidential campaign
Type
Still Image
Monograph
Genre Form
graphic
Language
English
Classification
LCC: Illus. in AP101.P7 1884
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Summary
Illustration shows a gallery of presidential candidates, clockwise, from bottom left: John Kelly as a card-playing pig, Chester A. Arthur as "The Snake Charmer" charming a snake labeled "Stalwart Vote" with a horn labeled "Patronage", Benjamin F. Butler as "What is it?", "Siamese Twins Keifer [and] Robeson", John A. Logan as the "Wild Zulu on the Warpath", "Carlisle, Morrison, [and] Hewitt" as a "Wax Group of Three Heroes Who Perished in an Attempt to Reach the Pole of Tariff Reform", "'Richelieu' Robinson" as a "Fire Eater", Charles A. "Dana" as a "Screech Parrot", a cage containing an "Un-Happy Family - N.Y. Board of Aldermen", an "Ancient Mummy Exhumed Lately" labeled "1876 Fraud Issue - S.J.T.", John "Sherman" as "The Man in the Bloody Shirt", Henry Watterson as a buffalo, Whitelaw Reid as a giraffe, and Samuel J. Randall(?) as "The Democratic White Elephant", William "Evarts" as the thin man, Roscoe Conkling as the bearded lady, David "Davis" as the Fat Lady, Robert Todd "Lincoln" and George F. "Edmunds" as "The Two Giants", James G. Blaine as the tattooed man, T.C. "Platt" and William "Mahone" as Tom Thumb and his bride, and Samuel S. "Cox" as a dancing poodle. Also, a stuffed tiger labeled "Tammany" on a pedestal labeled "Killed by Roosevelt".
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Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896 The national dime-museum - will be run during the presidential campaign