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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link 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 fullyCALL 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. FORMAT: Periodical illustrations 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
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