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Rapid Transit to Sheol - Where We Are All Going According to the Reverend Dr. Morgan Dix
- Title:
- Rapid Transit to Sheol - Where We Are All Going According to the Reverend Dr. Morgan Dix
- Alternate Title:
- Rapid Transit to Sheol
- Collection:
- Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894
- Date:
- 1888
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1097.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1097_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1870 - 1899
- Subject:
- New York City
Satirical
Heaven and Hell
Railroads
Allegorical
- Measurement:
- 30 x 47 on sheet 36 x 54 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- A satirical map of the road to Hell from Puck Magazine in 1888. The train has left Manhattan, with Castle Garden, the spire of Trinity Church and the Brooklyn Bridge plainly recognizable, and has passed through the "Brooklyn Annex." The blissfully unaware sinners fill the Sassiety Car, the Clerical Scandal Car, the Theatrical Car, the Artists Car, the Literary Car, the Press Car, the Lawyers Car, and the "Dem & Rep. 'Combine'." The Mugwump Car is empty, perhaps because they had returned to the Republican fold after the 1884 election.
The Reverend Morgan Dix was a well known figure at the time, the long-time Rector of the aristocratic and wealthy Trinity Church. He was an ideal Puck target: "as smug and stern morally as Cotton Mather . . . . unconscionably fossilized in doctrine." (Swanberg 1968, 21-22). "Sheol" is an archaic Hebrew reference to hades (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13563-sheol, accessed December 7, 2014).
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- Source:
- Puck Magazine, March 28, 1888.
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.
