Standard Oil,Cartoon,Uncle Sam,1907,Homer Davenport

Title: Standard Oil / Davenport.
Creator(s): Davenport, Homer, 1867-1912, artist
Date Created/Published: [19]07.
Summary: Cartoon shows Uncle Sam attaching a hose into a barrel labeled 'Standard Oil.' The hose, labeled '$29,240,000' feeds directly into the U.S. Treasury. In August 1907, U.S. District Judge Kenesaw M. Landis fined the Standard Oil Company of Indiana $29,240,000 for accepting illegal rebates. The fine was the heaviest imposed up to that time on a corporation or individual in the United States. Homer Davenport made his reputation drawing savage cartoons for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal at the end of the nineteenth century. In later years, he became an admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, supporting his attacks on the large corporate trusts.
Notes:
Title from item.
Inscribed: To Olea from her friend Homer Davenport '07.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Unprocessed in WOOD/Davenport.238
Sources: New York times, Aug. 4, 1907, p. 1; World encyclopedia of cartoons, p. 187-88 ljr
Subjects:
Standard Oil Company (Indiana)--1900-1910.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1900-1910.
Petroleum industry--Indiana--1900-1910.
Judicial proceedings--United States--1900-1910.
Fines and recoveries--United States--1900-1910.
Editorial cartoons--American--1900-1910.
Ink drawings--American--1900-1910.
Bookmark /2005685937/
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