Content note: 1896 Puck cartoon with a period caricature of Native Americans. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Last ghost-dance of the free silver tribe (Puck)
Puck centerfold cartoon by Louis Dalrymple, 4 November 1896 (election eve): Bryan, Sewall, Watson, Altgeld, Teller, Peffer, Jerry Simpson, Bland, Stewart, Jones and others, drawn as Native American dancers around a campfire labelled 'Repudiation', 'just before being sent to the Salt River Reservation'. The Native imagery borrows the stigma of the Ghost Dance and uses period racial caricature.
- Date
- November 4, 1896
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Puck (Keppler & Schwarzmann), artist Louis Dalrymple
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Cleveland Administration
- Leader
- Grover Cleveland
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1896 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain by age (published 1896); LOC rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
