Puck
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Are our teachings, then, in vain? (American cartoon, 1900)
Text: Are our teachings, then, in vain? Year: 1900. Publisher: Puck magazine. Artist: NA. Additional information: Confucius and Jesus looking down in disapproval at Chinese Boxer rebels and Christians battling during the Boxer rebellion. The Boxer at the bottom left holds a flag reading “Do not do unto others what you would not that others…
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The Sleeping Sickness (American cartoon, 1911)
Text: The Sleeping Sickness. Year: 1911. Publisher: Puck magazine. Artist: Gordon Ross. Additional information: Shows European nations colonising Africa while a giant African man sleeps slumped against a tree.
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A Voice from the Past (American illustration, 1905)
Text: A Voice from the Past. Shade of Louis. — Warily, Brother. Year: 1905 (8 February). Publisher: Puck. Artist: Frank A. Nankivell. Additional information: Published at the start of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the illustration shows the ghost of Louis XVI pointing to ‘La Guillotine’ and warning Tsar Nicholas II to heed the pleas…
