Content: "'Dolphin: What! go to sea, Secretary Whitney! Why, that might make me seasick!'"--caption below title.
Source Note: Harper's weekly : a journal of civilization. New York : Harper' s Weekly Co., 1857-1916.

Physical Description

Extent: 30 x 22 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)

Abstract

Cartoon satirizing the poor performance during sea trials of the USS Dolphin, one of four vessels ordered by Congress in 1883 to rebuild a United States Navy that was in disrepair. Secretary of the Navy William Whitney refused to accept the new ship, setting off a well-publicized political controversy and eventually driving the shipbuilder into bankruptcy.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17679160
Barcode: 33333159386974
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a2186950-c534-012f-8f22-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1885-06-06

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cruelty" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1885. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a2186950-c534-012f-8f22-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1885). Cruelty Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a2186950-c534-012f-8f22-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cruelty" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a2186950-c534-012f-8f22-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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