George Frederick Keller
George Frederick Keller | |
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| Self-caricature, 1878 | |
| Born | 1846 |
| Died | after 1883 |
| Known for | Cartooning |
| Notable work | The Wasp |
George Frederick Keller (1846–?) was a cartoonist active in California, known as the primary illustrator of the San Francisco satirical magazine The Wasp . Born in Prussia, he emigrated to the United States and fought in the U.S. Civil War, settling in California around 1870.[1] [2] He apprenticed to lithographer George Baker, where his first job was lithographing colorful cigar box labels.[3] [4] He joined The Wasp, also founded by Prussian immigrants, with its first issue, debuting in August 1876. Some of his work reflected the anti-Chinese and anti-immigrant sentiment of late 19th-Century San Francisco in highly racialized stereotypes, depicting Chinese as rat-like invaders, Irish as Neanderthals, and Jews as hook-nosed moneylenders.[2] [5] Keller's final cartoon was published June 30, 1883, after which he left the San Francisco area "and was never heard from again".[6]
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"A Liliput Kingdom For Sale Cheap" (1881), depicts King Kalākaua auctioning the Hawaiian Islands off to the highest bidder
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"What Shall We Do with Our Boys?" (1882) portrays a stereotypical Chinese worker as contributing to white American unemployment
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"The Curse of California" (1882) depicts the Southern Pacific Railroad monopoly as an octopus controlling a variety of industries
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"Terrible and Fatal Railroad Accident near Santa Cruz, May 23, 1880"
References
[edit ]- ^ Dawdy, Doris Ostrander (1974). Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. II. Chicago: Sage Books. p. 153. ISBN 0804006075.
- ^ a b Brechin, Gray (Fall 2002). "The Wasp: Stinging Editorials and Political Cartoons" (PDF). Bancroftiana (121). Friends of The Bancroft Library: 1+8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018年01月16日.
- ^ Olmstead, Roger (1976). "The Cigar-box Papers". California Historical Quarterly. 55 (3): 256–269. doi:10.2307/25157644. JSTOR 25157644.
- ^ Hall, Nicholas Sean (2013). "The Wasp's "Troublesome Children": Culture, Satire, and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the American West". California History. 90 (2): 42–76. doi:10.2307/41936500. JSTOR 41936500.
- ^ Nan Goodman; Simon Stern (12 May 2017). The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America. Taylor & Francis. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-1-317-04297-6.
- ^ West, Richard Samuel (2004). The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History. Easthampton, Massachusetts: Periodyssey Press. pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0971849440.
External links
[edit ]- Media related to George Frederick Keller at Wikimedia Commons
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