I meant to include this link...

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On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:04 AM Richard Henzel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I was reading Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and became obsessed
> with the political cartoons distributed throughout the booklet by H. L.
> Stephens caricaturing Jay Gould and others involved in the Erie Railroad
> Scandal.
>
> In his reworking of the children's nursery rhyme "The House That Jack
> Built," Stephens draws various men involved in the scandal as the animals
> and people in the story. So I'm trying to figure out is who (whom is whom?)
> in the sketches:
>
> Jack, the jackass on the title page has the cock-eyed look of James Fisk.
> I thought Jay Gould at first, but the Eyes...
>
> The rat is clearly Fisk (he ordered a military uniform for a photo but
> never served), the cat I can't identify, the dog has Jay Gould's beard and
> hair, the cow is labeled "The  Courts" (Barnard misspelled "Banad" for
> some reason) is the court. The maiden with the long mustache milking the
> cow branded TGP has to be Judge Barnard himself, the only figure in the
> scandal with such a long dark mustache. The man all tattered and torn has
> five heads: in front are (l to r) Gould, Fisk, and Vanderbilt, and behind
> them are two more heads. One, the bald one with chin whiskers who I believe
> is also the Cat in the previous panels.  And at the wedding, the priest
> appears to be Gould again, who is also still one of the five heads on the
> groom. So I think I've identified all of them but the cat and the balding
> fellow with the goatee in the back...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Richard Henzel
>
>