Marked Puck on upper margin and lower reads Two Political Paths Illustration shows Evarts, Reid, Robeson, Logan, [and] Blaine and William W. Phelps standing on the remains of a bridge Washed Away by the Freshet of Nov. 1884 labeled Partisan Civil Service and finding it difficult to get to the other side of the river. In the background, on a solid Civil Service Reform bridge are President Cleveland, members of his cabinet, Carl Schurz, and others unidentified, one holding a sheet of paper labeled A Mugwump Engineer and others holding a board labeled Tariff Reform. In the upper left corner is a flag pole with a banner that states Non-Partisan Civil Service and a municipal building labeled Good Government. (Loc.gov)Framed in a finished red toned wood grain frame with off white mat board. Approx 20 x 27.5 inches window measures 12 x19 inchesMinor wearing to frame Antique magazine illustration, magazine illustration, silk screen illustration, antique ephemera, home decor, wall art, art, silk screen art, print making art, Puck illustration, political art, political illustration. Political ephemera, 12 Art wallPuck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was founded in 1876 as a German-language publication by Joseph Keppler, an Austrian immigrant cartoonist.