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Standard Oil as octopus. Udo Keppler.

Standard Oil as octopus. Udo Keppler.
20th-century
1900s
corruption
colour
destruction
USA
North-America
America-(continent)
crude-oil
octopus
fish
animal
illustration
20th-century
1900s
corruption
colour
destruction
USA
North-America
America-(continent)
crude-oil
octopus
fish
animal
illustration
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Standard Oil as octopus. Udo Keppler.

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Keppler, Udo (Joseph Keppler, Jr.) (1872-1956) / American

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Ken Welsh

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1904 AD (C20th AD)

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Next! After a work by Udo Keppler published in Puck Magazine, September 1904. A view of the Standard Oil Company, Inc, at the time the world's biggest petroleum company, as an octopus with tentacles which enveloped and influenced the most important American institutions. In the picture the beast is reaching for the White House. In 1911 the Supreme Court of the United States ordered Standard Oil to be dissolved and and fragmented into 34 different companies.

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