"The Feminine of Jekyll and Hyde" (Puck, 1913)
Colour centrefold: a classically draped woman raises a huge yellow banner reading 'Woman Suffrage' while, directly below her, a wild-eyed, ragged, Medusa-haired hag rushes forward with a lit torch and a bomb, a sash across her body and smoke trailing from the torch. The tell is the Jekyll-and-Hyde pairing: one cause is given two bodies, and the loaded figure carries the label 'Militant Lawlessness' and 'Arson'.
- Date
- June 4, 1913
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Puck (New York satirical weekly, Keppler & Schwarzmann); cartoonist Udo J. Keppler
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Gender and suffrage
- Event
- US Woman Suffrage Campaign
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1913; artist d. 1956; LOC: no known restrictions on publication)
Udo J. Keppler, Puck, v. 73, no. 1892, New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 4 June 1913. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-27952.
Text on the object
PUCK WOMAN SUFFRAGE [on the banner] MILITANT LAWLESSNESS [on the hag's sash, per the LOC description; too small to confirm in the scan] ARSON [in the torch's smoke, per the LOC description; too small to confirm in the scan] THE FEMININE OF JEKYLL AND HYDE. Keppler [signature, lower left] THE PUCK PRESS [tiny imprint, lower left] LC-USZC2-1064 [pencil call number, later cataloguer's marking]
The banner, running head, caption and signature are read from the image. The words on the sash and in the smoke are small and partly obscured; they are recorded here as the LOC catalogue describes them. The committed JPEG is a 1280-pixel conversion of the LOC master TIFF.
