Photo Credit: Christmas card by Louis Prang, showing a group of anthropomorphized frogs parading with banner and band. Note the card has the makings of a work of art (see below for more details about Prang and his philosophy of Christmas cards). 19th century (no specific date), American Antiquarian Society. M2545/Wikimedia Commons/PD Old 100 “The […]
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Not Worth a Cent: The Coming of The Gilded Age
The idea behind the cartoon is, as I mention below, the fact that big business was “in bed” with government. In this cartoon, big business is represented by “the robber barons”, the name given to the tycoons of the railroad companies (and the businesses that made them possible, such as the steel business), depicted as […]
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