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title: 'A Long Range Assault: Puck cover on the French press and the Transvaal, 3 January 1900'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-french-press-transvaal-1900/
description: 'Puck cover: a grinning, top-hatted caricature, labelled by his quill "FRENCH PRESS", stands on a pedestal marked "PARIS" and kicks a shoe marked…'
section: Collection
---

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# A Long Range Assault: Puck cover on the French press and the Transvaal, 3 January 1900

Puck cover: a grinning, top-hatted caricature, labelled by his quill "FRENCH PRESS", stands on a pedestal marked "PARIS" and kicks a shoe marked "INSULTS" toward a small British lion in the smoke of the "TRANSVAAL" war, with papers marked "VENOMOUS ARTICLES" and "SPITE CARTOONS" scattered below. The tell: a whole national press is reduced to one sneering figure and a list of loaded labels (name-calling).

## Text on the object

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

```
Puck
VOL. XLVI. No. 1191. PUCK BUILDING, New York, January 3rd, 1900. PRICE TEN CENTS.
Copyright, 1899, by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
A LONG RANGE ASSAULT.
FRENCH PRESS.-Me kick at the British Lion? Boo! Who's afraid? Fashodia is avenged!
[labels:] FRENCH PRESS (quill); PARIS (pedestal); INSULTS (shoe); VENOMOUS ARTICLES; SPITE CARTOONS; TRANSVAAL
[signature:] Dalrymple
```

Read from the 1024 px LOC image.

[← Victorious Democracy: title page of a 1900 Bryan campaign biography](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victorious-democracy-bryan-campaign-book-1900/) ["Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-rire-cecil-rhodes-leandre-1900/)

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