About this image...

Image Title: Let Boss Platt Beware, 1897

Creator: Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist

Date: 1897 June 9.

Summary: Print shows an angry Father Knickerbocker, symbolic figure of New York City, performing a feat of strength by breaking chains that bound his arms and chest; the broken chain spells "Raines Law" and "Hayseed Legislation". The "Sandow Act" refers to similar feats of strength by bodybuilder Eugen Sandow.

Subjects: Anger--1890-1900
Bodybuilders--1890-1900
Chains--1890-1900
Municipal government--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900
New York (N.Y.)--Symbolic representation--1890-1900
Platt, Thomas Collier,--1833-1910
Sandow, Eugen,--1867-1925
Tammany Hall (Political organization)

Places: New York State--New York
New York--New York

Original Media: Chromolithograph

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