Title: uncle sam's lodging-house
abstract: print shows an irishman confronting uncle sam in a boarding house filled with laborers, immigrants from several countries who are attempting to sleep; the "frenchman, japanese, negro, russian, italian," and "german" sleep peacefully. The "irishman" kicks up a row. He has thrown such bricks as "the chinese must go," "recall lowell," and "irish independence" at uncle sam and the female figure of liberty standing on the left. He disturbs a "chinese" man and an "englishman," who are in the berths next to him. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: copyright 1882 by keppler & schwarzmann.;j. Keppler.;illus. From: puck, v. 11, no. 274 (1882 june 7), pp. 220-221.;title from item.;illus. In: puck, v. 11, no. 274 (1882 june 7), centerfold.;2nd copy forms part of: ben and beatrice goldstein foundation collection (library of congress).;caption: uncle sam-- "look here, you, everybody else is quiet and peaceable, and you're all the time a-kicking up a row!"; library has two copies, one bound in vol. 11 and the second copy in lot 14014. Date: 1882.
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