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English: Title: The contest of beauty

Abstract: Illustration shows a beauty contest where "First Prize" is the "Presidency". The presidential candidates, all dressed as women, are sitting on raised platforms around which men have gathered to admire their beauty. Two men in the lower left appear to be voting for number "1. The Empire State Enslaver"; among those in the running are "2. The same Old Widow from Beanville, 3. The Mulligan Masher from Maine [holding fan labeled] J. Blaine, 4. The Delaware Darling, 5. The Indiana Dumpling [holding fan labeled] J.E. MDonald, 6. The Homespun Houri of Ohio, 7. The Illinois Pet, 10. Utica Immortelle, 11. The Buffalo Girl, 12. The Indiana 'Sun-Flower' [with ribbon labeled] W.S. Holman, 13. The Nation's Ex-Favorite [holding fan labeled] U.S.G., 14. The Pension Ring Pocahontas [with fan labeled] Logan, 15. The Centennial Spinster Ex-Champion de jure, 16. The Free Trade Fairy [with fan labeled] Hewitt, 17. The Ohio Water Lily Ex-Champion de facto, 18. The Pearl of Protection [with fan labeled] Randall, The Sherman Sisters 19. The Tecumseh Twin, 20. The Treasury Twin, 21. The Virtuous Vermonter [with fan labeled] Edmund, [and] 22. The Fat Fairy". Among those depicted are Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin F. Butler, James G. Blaine, Thomas Bayard, Joseph E. McDonald, Allen G. Thurman, Robert Todd Lincoln, Roscoe Conkling, Grover Cleveland, William Steele Holman, Ulysses S. Grant, John Logan, Samuel J. Tilden, Abram S. Hewitt, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel J. Randall, William T. Sherman, John Sherman, George F. Edmunds, and David Davis. Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph.

Notes: J. Keppler.; Copyright 1884 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.; Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 359, (1884 January 23), centerfold.; Title from item.
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Joseph Keppler  (1838–1894)  wikidata:Q6283062 s:en:Author:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler q:cs:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler
 
Joseph Keppler
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Joseph Keppler Sr.; Joseph Ferdinand Keppler
Description American cartoonist and caricaturist
father of Udo Keppler, who was known as Joseph Keppler (Jr.) after 1894
Date of birth/death 1 February 1838 Edit this at Wikidata 19 February 1894 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Vienna Edit this at Wikidata New York City Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1900 Edit this at Wikidata–1910 Edit this at Wikidata
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