Photo provided courtesy of the United States Library of Congress.
The base-ball Laocoon / L.M. Glackens.
The base-ball Laocoon / L.M. Glackens.
1 photomechanical print : offset, color.
Illustration shows three baseball players entwined by snakes formed of baseballs labeled "Base Ball Trust"; each carries a "Contract", one for $8000, one for $10000, and one for $12000 and also stuffed in his belt papers labeled "Bonds, Stocks, [and] Deed Oran[ge] Farm".
- Title from item.
- Caption: No class of labor feels the grip of grinding monopoly more than our underpaid, overworked ball-players.
- Illus. in: Puck, v. 73, no. 1889 (1913 May 14), cover.
- Copyright 1913 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
- Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
- Baseball players--1910-1920.
- Wages--1910-1920.
- Monopolies--1910-1920.
- Perspiration--1910-1920.
- Anxiety--1910-1920.
- Irony--1910-1920.
- Laocoön (Legendary character)--1910-1920.
- Cartoons (Commentary)--1910-1920.
- Magazine covers--1910-1920.
- Offset photomechanical prints--Color--1910-1920.
- Periodical illustrations--1910-1920.
Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933, artist
