Effect of Hard Times on the Rich and on the Poor, 1877: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 46
A special thanks today to historian Richard Samuel West, who permitted me to scan the below cartoon from page 133 of his book, The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History, the best book written about the West Coast’s equivalent to Puck magazine. To obtain a copy of Rich’s book, click here.
Titled Effect of the Present Hard Times on the Rich and the Poor, with art by George Frederick Keller, this cartoon appeared in the May 26, 2025 issue of The Wasp. For commentary, I’ll quote Rich West:
| “More San Franciscans were adversely affected by the collapse of mining stock values in 1875 than they had been by the general economic depression of 1873. In this cartoon, Keller pointed out that the wealthy always managed to stay on top.” |
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Click here to find prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries, and related I.T.C.H. posts. This series will continue, so long as the debate on financial reforms continues in Congress (except Mondays and holidays, during which I’d already had other material planned).
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— Doug
