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Johann Most in Cartoons
Bernhard Gillam (1856-1896)
"How Do They Like It Themselves? Horrified Apostles of Violence.--'Begob, the Flag has gone back on us!"
Puck, February 11, 1885.
Most on the right together with Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
Frederick Burr Opper (1857-1937)
"Gotham's Gospel Needs. Why Send Our Missionaries to Afric's Sunny Fountains? Let Them Stay Here and Labor Among the Barbarous Tribes of the Metropolis."
Puck, February 18, 1885.
Most is depicted wearing red shorts
Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1838-1894)
"The Suckers of the Working-man’s Sustenance."
Puck, May 19, 1886.
Most is under the table, second from left
Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
"When His Skin Is Not In Danger, and When It Is."
Harper's Weekly, May 22, 1886.
Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
"Anarchists' Drill, New Tactics"
Harper's Weekly, May 29, 1886
Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
"Liberty or Death"
Harper's Weekly, June 5, 1886
Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
"The Evolution of the Americanized Foreigner."
1886
"Hans Socialist" is a reference to Johann Most
Frederick Burr Opper (1857-1937)
"The Only Form of Trial That Would Satisfy the Chicago Anarchists--A Trial by a Court of Their Peers."
Puck, 1886
Most is featured as the judge holding a mug of beer
"John Most, the anarchist, addressing a meeting of sympathizers at Cooper Institute, April 4th. / from a sketch by a staff artist."
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 16, 1887
Daniel H. McCarthy (1870-1905)
"When the Dynamite Trust Controls All Explosives-M'Carthy's Idea of the Result."
[periodical & date unknown]
source: Ramus Papers, IISG vol. 438, p.135-138
special thanks to
Folkert Mohrhof and Martyn Everett
Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1838-1894)
"Siegfried, the Fearless, in the Political Dismal Swamp."
Puck, December 28, 1887.
Most is depicted as a snake in the lower left corner
Frederick Burr Opper (1857-1937)
"The Proper School for Anarchists."
1889 [source]
Most is seated third from the right
The Boston Globe, November 17, 1913.
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