Content note: 1880 Puck cover with a racial caricature of a Chinese man. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Where Both Platforms Agree: No Vote, No Use to Either Party (Puck cover, 14 July 1880)
Puck cover by J. A. Wales (14 July 1880, vol. 7, no. 175), the source of this record's 'Chinese Americans' file. Garfield and Hancock, in shirtsleeves, hammer a board lettered 'Anti-Chinese' ('Republican Plank', 'Democratic Plank') around a Chinese man drawn in period racial caricature. The caption says the planks leave the man with 'no vote' and of 'no use to either party'. The cartoon's target is both parties' platforms; the central figure is the group both platforms addressed.
- Date
- July 14, 1880
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Puck (Keppler & Schwarzmann), artist James A. Wales
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Hayes Administration
- Leader
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1880 US Election
- Techniques
- Scapegoating
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US, 1880); LOC: no known restrictions
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
