Title: the old and the new year
abstract: illustration shows father time presenting the new year labeled "1886" to puck standing in the foreground, holding his lithographic pencil; behind him are scenes of events from 1885, such as president cleveland's inauguration on march 4th, fredinand ward's conviction and william mahone's defeat, publication of pope leo xiii's "encyclical" immortale dei, louis pasteur's anti-rabies vaccine, chinese attacked in rock springs, wyoming and tacoma, washington territory, and the grim reaper strikes down ulysses s. Grant, alfonso xii of spain, william h. Vanderbilt, composer leopold damrosch, cardinal mccloskey, thomas hendricks, and victor hugo. Fighting continues in bulgaria, sudan, tonquin, and spain. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 18, no. 460, (1885 december 30), centerfold.;copyright 1885 by keppler & schwarzmann.;title from item. Date: 1885.
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