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title: '"As to Japanese Exclusion" (Puck cover, 13 March 1907)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-as-to-japanese-exclusion-1907/
description: Cover that argues against excluding Japanese immigrants by drawing a crowd of ragged, bearded men in kimonos and geta being waved off at a dock…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Ethnic caricatures of immigrants in a 1907 cartoon about Japanese exclusion. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# "As to Japanese Exclusion" (Puck cover, 13 March 1907)

Cover that argues against excluding Japanese immigrants by drawing a crowd of ragged, bearded men in kimonos and geta being waved off at a dock, captioned "Perhaps, if they came in kimonos, the real undesirables might also be kept out." The label "real undesirables" is pinned on a caricatured group of European-looking immigrants.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
VOL. LXI. No. 1567.   PUCK BUILDING, New York, March 13th, 1907.   PRICE TEN CENTS.
"What Fools these Mortals be!"
Puck
Copyright, 1907, by Keppler & Schwarzmann.   Entered at N. Y. P. O. as Second-class Mail Matter.

[signature, lower right of picture] FRANK A. NANKIVELL

AS TO JAPANESE EXCLUSION.
Perhaps, If They Came in Kimonos, the real Undesirables Might also Be Kept Out.

[Library of Congress copyright stamp, upper right: "Two Copies Received MAR 12 1907 ..."]
```

Read from the 1024 px Library of Congress service image. The Library of Congress stamp at upper right is an accession mark, not part of the cover, and is only partly transcribed.

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