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Before the Trojan horse is admitted the puzzled citizen will have to...

TITLE:Before the Trojan horse is admitted the puzzled citizen will have to be shown a little more fully

CALL NUMBER:SWANN - no. 857 (B size) (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-84058 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY:A worried man dressed as a farmer, labeled "The Puzzled Citizen," scratches his head while standing near a box marked "$" near the doorway of a barn marked "Missouri." He is confronted by an octopus symbolizing Standard Oil and its subsidiaries, bent into the shape of a Trojan horse. The octopus''s head, marked with the words "Same Old Contortionist," peers out furtively from a box that forms the body of the horse. The box is marked with word "Partnership" and is tagged "Please Take Me In."

MEDIUM:1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with scraping out on bristol board ; 43.2 x 35.3 cm. (sheet)

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1909 Feb. 3 [publication date]

CREATOR:

Bradley, Luther Daniels, 1853-1917, artist.

NOTES:

Signed, lower left: BRADLEY.

Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.59)

In March, 1905, the State of Missouri brought suit against John D. Rockefeller''s Standard

Published in: Chicago Daily News, February 3, 1909.

SUBJECTS:

Standard Oil Company--1900-1910.
Petroleum industry--Missouri--1900-1910.
Industrial trusts--Missouri--1900-1910.
Octopuses--1900-1910.
Trojan horses--1900-1910.

FORMAT:

Periodical illustrations American 1900-1910.
Editorial cartoons American 1900-1910.
Drawings American 1900-1910.

PART OF:Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature & Cartoon (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b30632

CONTROL #:swa1994000681/PP





Pop Art Machine Code: cph-3b30000-3b30000-3b30600-3b30632