Uncle Sam's Income
Date1909
Artist
Louis Glackens
(American illustrator and cartoonist, 1866–1933)
Illustration CitationPuck, April 21, 1909
MediumCommercial relief process with hand-coloring
Dimensionssheet: 14 × 20 1/2 in. (35.6 × 52.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-302
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Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextLouis Glackens' cartoon is a visual pun on stamp taxes, which are duties imposed by the government on certain transactions. Taking the stamp and its hammer literally, he asks why such taxes shouldn't be imposed on a variety of irritating people, plants, and animals rather than on "the poor old consumer" in the lower right. 
