The deadly upas tree of Wall Street by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894, artist. Published 18820101

The deadly upas tree of Wall Street by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894, artist. Published 18820101. Print shows a large, old tree at the edge of body of water with Albany, N.Y. on the right, in the background, and the U.S. Capitol on the left, in the background. Hanging from the branches are many coins with "$" and a few blossoms labelled "Bribes for Legislation, Bribes for Lawyers, Bribes for Judges, Bribes for Editors, [and] Bribes for Congress". Telegraph lines are tangled in the branches and the face of Jay Gould is formed by limbs and branches at centre. The bodies of several people lay among the debris beneath the tree; Roscoe Conkling is slumped against a row of buildings and a railroad, "Westbro[?]" has expired over the same row of buildings, a skull is labelled "Jim Fisk" next to "Whitlow Reid", Ulysses S. Grant, at centre, is labelled "Black Friday", beneath a railroad is the body of a woman labelled "Stockholder", against the trunk of the tree is a man labelled "Stock Holder E.R.R." who looks a little like Cornelius Vanderbilt, and on the right is Alonzo Cornell labelled "Blind Pool". All appear to have succumbed to greed through the machinations of Jay Gould.