Title: a summer smoke-cloud
abstract: print shows puck reclining before a table covered with alcoholic beverages, some labeled "v. H. Dusenbury's p. P. Brandy" and "puck punch [no london punch]", smoking and blowing smoke rings. Among the figures appearing in puck's smoke cloud are chester a. Arthur labeled "for a good veto" and fishing for "popularity", george m. Robeson at the helm of a boat carrying a large money bag labeled "appropriation", jay gould, russell sage, and william h. Vanderbilt sailing on a boat labeled "monopoly"; susan b. Anthony and another woman, g. W. Curtis labeled "civil service reform", roscoe conkling, jay hubbell labeled "deform", ulysses s. Grant labeled "no third term", david davis, robert ingersoll boxing with thomas de witt talmage, james g. Bennett, "old rossa" with "dynamite", cyrus w. Field trying to net a "coronet", john kelly and samuel j. Tilden on a seesaw, william r. Grace standing on a rock labeled "public esteem" with seth low trying to climb up, and james russell lowell on a "british mission". Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: copyright 1882 by keppler & schwarzmann.;j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 11, no. 283, (1882 august 9), centerfold.;title from item. Date: 1882.
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