Hearst Caricatures Collection

'Puck' humor magazine featuring a cartoon mock battle scene between cowboys, pioneers, and Native Americans with characters like Hearst, Shearn, Brisbane, Murphy, Ridder, Kern, Watterson, Fingy, Chanler, Parker, Mack, Hisgen, Haskell, and Graves playing the parts. Written beneath the scene is the title "The Danites" with "Another Mountain Meadows Massacre" as the descriptor. On the back is an article highlighting the increasing disparity between living costs and wages focusing on Republican backed tariffs. It then calls for the election of 'Bryan and Kern' for 'lower living expenses'.

'Puck' humor magazine featuring a cartoon caricature of William Randolph Hearst titled "Personal Journalism" with the text "And a number of deluded mortals swallow it". This is surrounded by flattering, ostentatious headlines from his own newspapers to puff up his reputation and character. Humorous anecdotes are written beneath the illustration and on the back is a page long comic titled "The Life of a New York Hotel" showing the three stages of a hotel's life through its era of magnificence, easy-going era, and era of dilapidation. Circa 1911?

'Harper's Weekly' political magazine featuring an exploding Hearst Presidential Boom balloon while William Randolph Hearst as a skydiver dangling from a chute titled 'Read the Jourmerican'. Underneath, the text reads 'An Expert'. Circa early 1900s-1920s.

'Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization' political magazine featuring William Randolph Hearst dancing with a Miss B. Cockran to 'The Limerick Song'. Miss B. Cockran is a cross-gendered/crossdressing caricature of New York Representative William Bourke Cockran who has a dance card illustrating his alliances, party-switches, and campaigned filled political career. Names written include: Mr. McKinley, My. Bryan, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Parker, Mr. Challan, and Mr. Hearst. Written beneath is the limerick's text, "Waltz me around again, Willie, around and around and around."