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Puck started as a German-language weekly in 1876, with an English version appearing the following year. By the early 1880s, it was selling over 80,000 copies a week.
During the summer of 1882, the editor of The New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, actively promoted state comptroller James W. Wadsworth as the Republican candidate for governor of New York. Gillam's satire metaphorically translates Bennett's advocacy into a push for Wadsworthine, a "sure cure" remedy. Not overly popular, Wadsworth failed to win the nomination.
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| Title: | The Great American Quack - A Good Remedy in Bad Hands Puck, vol. 6, no. 51, September 6, 1882 |
| Date: | 1882 |
| Artist: | Bernhard Gillam (American, 1856–1896) |
| Medium: | Color lithograph |
| Dimensions: | Image and sheet (sight): 12 7/16 x 8 5/8 inches (31.6 x 21.9 cm) |
| Classification: | Prints |
| Credit Line: | The William H. Helfand Collection, 2004 |
| Accession Number: | 2004-99-34 |
| Geography: | Made in United States, North and Central America |
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