The consumer’s only chance
1909
Frank Nankivell’s 1909 cover for *Puck* magazine uses dramatic, moonlit imagery to satirize a frustrating economic paradox of the era. A daring aviator pilots a massive airship across the night sky, transporting crates explicitly labeled 'American Goods Bought in England' back to the States. Below, a mother on a rooftop clutches a tethering rope while her children reach up in wonder, representing the American consumer's only chance to buy their own country's products cheaply—since high US tariffs had ironically made them more expensive at home than abroad.
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