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Easter Eggs for McKinley

A Promising Chicken
Louis Dalrymple
Chromolithograph
Pub.: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1897 April

William McKinley's Presidence : 1897-1901

A small chick labeled "Prosperity" has emerged from a large egg labeled "Easter 1897"; a rooster labeled "Rep. Party" is crowing in the background and a hen with the head of President McKinley is strutting on the righy.
Caption: "It is pretty small yet - but it is bound to grow."



An Easter Sermon
Louis Dalrymple
Chromolithograph
Pub.: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1898 April 13
from Puck magazine

President William McKinley stopps the hand of a man wearing buccaneer clothing and holding a large sword labeled "Yellow Journalism" and a trumpet labeled "War"; on the right is a goose wearing a medal labeled "Business Revival" and a large golden egg labeled "Prosperity 1898".
Caption: Yellow journalism is more dangerous to our peace, prosperity and national honor than all the enemies outside our gates.



McKinley's Easter Egg
Louis Dalrymple
Chromolithograph
Pub: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1900 April 18.
from Puck magazine

Vice-Presidential Aspirations after the death of the Vice-President Garret A. Hobart in 1899.

Special Easter edition centerfold shows William McKinley as a rooster standing next to a broken egg labeled "Vice-Presidential Aspirations" from which several chicks have emerged, identified as: "Lodge, Black, Bliss, Teddy, Root, Beveridge, [and] Timmy Woodruff."