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Castle Garden Emigrant Catchers
Caption: "Castle Garden"
Source: Puck
Date: June 14, 1882
Artist: Frederick Burr Opper
In your small group, use your Cartoon Analysis Checklist to discuss the sterotypes in the image.
1. What main point is this cartoon trying to make?
2. The signs read "Friend from the old country," "confidence man," and"Temptress" and others that are impossible to read. How do the visual features clarify the meaning of the captions?
3. How are the figures on the top right of the cartoon drawn? What stereotype is presented in the drawings?
4. What does the picure tell you about the dangers to immigrants?
5. What is the meaning of the cartoon?
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