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).
- Date
- January 3, 1900
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Puck (Keppler & Schwarzmann), cover by Louis Dalrymple
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Mckinley Administration
- Leader
- William Mckinley
- 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"
Puck, vol. 46, no. 1191, 3 January 1900 (cover by Louis Dalrymple). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-25382; hosted at 1024 px.
Text on the object
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.
