Title

Hearst Caricatures Collection

Description

Published caricatures and illustrations of William Randolph Hearst, an American newspaper publisher. Sources include illustrations published in Puck, Harper's Weekly, and Judge. Collection is largely unarranged and unprocessed. Collection dates between 1898 and 1920. More information available at https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8125rcf

Collection

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Local Identifier
069_spc_00000008
Date Created
1908 (year uncertain)
Description

'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'.

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000006
Date Created
1911 (year uncertain)
Description

'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?

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000007
Date Created
1900 to 1919
Description

'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.

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000003
Date Created
1906 (year uncertain)
Description

'Puck' humor magazine (volume LX (volume 60) No. 1548) featuring a cartoon caricature of a scene from Shakespeare's 'Richard III' with William Randolph Hearst as Richard III, Chauncey M. Depew as a ghost, and '"Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow!"' written beneath. On the back side there is a comic titled 'The Annual Rescue Scene' featuring Uncle Sam swimming in political issues as a 'chorus of heroes' dives in to save him needlessly. Circa October 31st, 1906.

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000005
Date Created
1906 (year uncertain)
Description

'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."

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000002
Date Created
1906 (year uncertain)
Description

'Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization' political magazine (Volume L (volume 50), No. 2602) featuring two men holding up a William Randolph Hearst straw-man/scarecrow illustrated by W.A. Rogers with 'The Last Gasp' written beneath. On the back side there is commentary edited by George Harvey. Circa November 3rd, 1906.

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000001
Date Created
1898 (year uncertain)
Description

'Puck' humor magazine (volume XLIII (volume 43), No. 1098) featuring a cartoon caricature of President William McKinley with "Honor to McKinley!" written beneath. On the back side there is a comic titled 'A Lively Find' featuring The African Traveler. Circa March 23rd, 1898.

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000022
Date Created
1906-08-22
Description

Issue of 'Puck' (volume LX (volume 60), no. 1538) humor magazine featuring a caricature of William Randolph Hearst dressed as Tarquin (Sextus Tarquinius) the Roman soldier who rapes Lucrece in Shakespeare's narrative poem "The Rape of Lucrece". He is dubbed "Tarquinius Hearst" and drags a torch of Yellow Journalism while sneaking into New York State Democracy. The text beneath titles the illustration "The Rape of Lucrece" while the back features anecdotes, one-liners, and comic featuring two golfers with the words "Strange! "I was surprised to find so few Sunday schools on the Continents." -John D. Rockefeller" beneath. Circa August 22nd 1906.

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000027
Date Created
1906-09-12
Description

Issue of 'Puck' (volume LX (volume 60), no. 1541) humor magazine featuring a caricature of William Randolph Hearst cradling two bags of smiling gold coins next to a storage chest for a ventriloquist doll. The title beneath reads "Money Talks" while the reverse side features one liners, humorous anecdotes, and a comic of President Theodore Roosevelt dressed in graduation robes at a chalkboard crossing out 'Tariff'. The comic is titled "Owr Fonetik Prezident.- And yet sum pepul sa Ime not a Tarif reformer!" Circa September 12th, 1906.

Local Identifier
069_spc_00000025
Date Created
1904-04-27
Description

Issue of 'Puck' (volume LV (volume 60), no. 1417) humor magazine featuring caricatures of numerous men as microbes being presented on a projector. The men in question are Democrats, namely William Randolph Hearst with his yellow journalism and William Jennings Bryan with his "Bryanism". The illustration is titled "The Democratic Microbes. Puck- Gentlemen, we have here the most dangerous germs in the body politic." The back features humorous anecdotes, commentaries, and several small illustrations. Circa April 27th, 1904.