19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A cartoon of a group of people with axes, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Print shows the Roman god "Mars" bound to rocks, imprisoned with shackles and clamps labeled "Russo-German Commercial Treaty", fastened with spikes driven by Nicholas II of Russia and William II of Germany using large sledgehammers labeled "Ratification"; in the background, a female figure labeled "Peace" reclines in a hammock that hangs between the standards of each nation.

Caption: Peace in Europe is safe for ten years more, anyhow!

Illus. from Puck, v. 35, no. 891, (1894 April 4), centerfold.

Copyright 1894 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

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01/01/1894

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