“John Bull in Egypt”, no information for this one. However, can be compared to 1888 Punch cartoon, and is probably of a similar age.
Image source: BradlyHardin.com
Vulgar Army
Octopus in Propaganda and Political Cartoons
On October 28, 1891, the Weekly Missoulian caricaturized Hammond as the “Missoula Octopus, that is undertaking to reach its slimy arms over the county and strangle the life out of it.” The following year, Hammond purchased the newspaper.
For more information: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/10a9.4/gordon.html
Once again, the “octo” part of octopus is optional.
Arms labelled: South Missoula Land Co, Delinquent Taxes, The Missoulian, Camas Farmers, Race Track, Timber Den?, Missoula Water Works!, Town of C?dale, Ramsdell Bros, Mortgage Records, Florence Hotel, Bitter Root Farmers, Missoula Hotel, Steel R?, Higgins Estate, First National Bank, McCormack Estate, Town of Bonner, Front Street, Town of Cor wallis, Town of Victor, Fort Missoula, Canon Ditch, Missoula Real Estate Assn, Church
Boer War postcard (1899/1900)
Postcard from series ‘La Guerre du Transvaal’. Depicts Transvaal lion as biting British octopus. All other colonies in thrall to the octopus and entangled in its arms.
The caption says: ‘Tu as cette fois Albion, En face de toi un Lion’ (You have this time Albion, in front of you a Lion.)
![C.P Hunting as an Octopus (1896) by Jimmy Swinnerton was published in the San Francisco Examiner, December 14th 18961. The cartoon show an octopoid with trunk like limbs as a head of a bearded man, with C.P. Hunting (Collis Potter) written across its forehead. Huntington was a railway magnate and one of the “big four”2.
Each of its limbs holds either a person: “farmer”, “merchant”, “orange raiser”, “manufacturer” or an object: a piece of paper saying “honest vote” and a building with “San Francisco” flag. It has a small wound on one limb with “Johnson Defeat” written next to it.
Image Source: California State Library,http://bancroft.library.ca.gov/diglib/imagedata.cfm?id=1408 Accessed: 22nd May 2009.
California State Library,http://bancroft.library.ca.gov/diglib/imagedata.cfm?id=1408 Accessed: 22nd May 2009 [↩]
Wikipedia (2009), “Collis Potter Huntington”,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington, Accessed: 22nd May 2009 [↩]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxtemc66i01qb50y9o1_400.jpg)
C.P Hunting as an Octopus (1896) by Jimmy Swinnerton was published in the San Francisco Examiner, December 14th 18961. The cartoon show an octopoid with trunk like limbs as a head of a bearded man, with C.P. Hunting (Collis Potter) written across its forehead. Huntington was a railway magnate and one of the “big four”2.
Each of its limbs holds either a person: “farmer”, “merchant”, “orange raiser”, “manufacturer” or an object: a piece of paper saying “honest vote” and a building with “San Francisco” flag. It has a small wound on one limb with “Johnson Defeat” written next to it.
Image Source: California State Library,http://bancroft.library.ca.gov/diglib/imagedata.cfm?id=1408 Accessed: 22nd May 2009.
- California State Library,http://bancroft.library.ca.gov/diglib/imagedata.cfm?id=1408 Accessed: 22nd May 2009 [↩]
- Wikipedia (2009), “Collis Potter Huntington”,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington, Accessed: 22nd May 2009 [↩]
Well, Brother, will you let the beast have your vote, too? (Bowles, 1894)
Agricultural monopoly. Relates to the Alabama gubernatorial election in 1894. According to the image source (Alabama Department of Archives and History) this was run for Reuben Kolb who ran for the Populist Party. Kolb was defeated due to electoral fraud by the Democrats (Encyclopedia of Alabama, 2008).
Alabama Department of Archives and History. Image source:http://216.226.178.196/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/photo&CISOPTR=5285&CISOBOX=1&REC=8
More info: – Encyclopedia of Alabama (2008) Populism in Alabama (Accessed: 29th Mar 2009)
