Easter Puck, 1903
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Easter Puck, 1903
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Science Source
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Photograph - Illustration
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Entitled: "Easter Puck". Chromolithograph shows a little girl taking all the colored eggs from the Easter Bunny's basket; she is putting them in her apron, but some have fallen on the ground and are broken. There is a hen wearing a bonnet in the background." Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918. It was the first magazine to carry illustrated advertising and the first to successfully adopt full-color lithography printing for a weekly publication. The Easter Bunny is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior at the start of the season of Eastertide. The Easter Bunny is sometimes depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature carries colored eggs in his basket, candy, and sometimes also toys to the homes of children. An Easter bonnet is a type of hat that women and girls wear to Easter services, and in the Easter parade following it. Illustrated by Louis M. Glackens for Puck and published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, April 8, 1903.
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