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Standard Oil cartoon with octopus

LOC: info TITLE: Next!

CALL NUMBER: Illus. in AP101.P7 1904 [General Collections]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-435 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-26205 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZCN4-122 (color film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: Political cartoon showing a Standard Oil tank as an octopus with many tentacles wrapped around the steel, copper, and shipping industries, as well as a state house, the U.S. Capitol, and one tentacle reaching for the White House.

MEDIUM: 1 print (2 pages) : lithograph, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith, Co., 1904 Sept. 7.

CREATOR:

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist.

NOTES:

Illus. in: Puck, v. 56, no. 1436 (1904 Sept. 7).

Reference copy in LOT 9357.

SUBJECTS:

Petroleum industry--1900-1910. Big business--1900-1910. Octopuses--1900-1910.

FORMAT:

Periodical illustrations 1900-1910. Lithographs Color 1900-1910.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3b52184 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52184 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a27007 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a27007 (color film copy neg.) cph 3j00122 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00122

CARD #: 2001695241


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1904 cartoon depicting Standard Oil as an evil octopus

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