"Diner bij Oom Paul" (Dinner at Uncle Paul's): Dutch postcard, Kruger serves Chamberlain Transvaal soup, c.1897
Dutch lithograph postcard titled "Diner bij Oom Paul": a bearded Paul Kruger, spoon raised, offers a monocled man at left (Joseph Chamberlain, per LOC) more from a tureen labelled "Transvaalsche Soep", while a grotesque crowned figure between them eats; in the printed dialogue Chamberlain answers that it is not as tasty as he had thought. The tell: the guests are drawn as caricatures and the Transvaal is a dish the British guest finds hard to stomach (name-calling).
- Date
- 1897
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Internationale Postkaarthandel, Arnhem (lithograph J.A. Luli & Co., Amsterdam)
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Netherlands
- Leader
- Wilhelmina
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the US (pre-1931); LOC: "No known restrictions on publication"
Lithograph postcard, J.A. Luli & Co., Amsterdam, c.1897. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cph-3a44000.
Text on the object
Diner bij Oom Paul. KRUGER: Wel Joe, lust je nog wat? CHAMBERLAIN: Dankje, ze is lang zoo lekker niet als ik gedacht had. [on the tureen:] TRANSVAALSCHE SOEP. [left margin, vertical:] Uitg. van de Internationale Postkaarthandel, [street name illegible] 86 Arnhem. [right margin, vertical:] Lith. van J.A. Luli & Co. Amsterdam
Dinner at Oom Paul's. KRUGER: Well, Joe, would you like some more? CHAMBERLAIN: Thanks, it is not nearly as tasty as I had thought.
"ze" (she/it) is ambiguous in context; rendered "it", referring to the soup. Translation is FRAME's literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
