Title: snowed in
abstract: illustration shows puck offering an "anti silver coinage" snow shovel to william m. Evarts during a snowstorm that is depositing silver coins on the grounds of the u. S. Capitol and the department of treasury building, where a group of men labeled "warner, vance, beck, pugh, eustis, jones, manning, edmunds, [mc]pherson, [and] bland" are gathering up coins for a snowball fight. Uncle sam is caught in the storm on the right, whereas on the left and to the west, a "twenty dollars" gold piece sets like the sun over a prosperous and expanding nation, between them are "closed" snowbound factories. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: caption: puck-- "now, mr. Evarts, new york expects you to take right hold and help shovel uncle sam out of this silver trouble. "; j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 18, no. 463, (1886 january 20), centerfold.;copyright 1886 by keppler & schwarzmann.;title from item. Date: 1886.
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