Puck Magazine Illustration Tote – World’s Fair Satirical Art

This tote features a satirical illustration originally published in Puck magazine in the late nineteenth century, when American humor favored ambition, excess, and the assumption that readers were paying attention.

The image imagines a towering, carnival-like “Colossus of Chicago” rising above the 1893 World’s Fair—part monument, part amusement, part quiet critique of national confidence. The longer you look, the more it reveals: miniature scenes, architectural jokes, and a sense of scale that is both proud and faintly ridiculous.

Printed on heavy cotton canvas, this is a practical, everyday bag built to carry books, groceries, notebooks, or the accumulated evidence of a long afternoon. Sturdy, unflashy, and quietly opinionated.

EU representative: The American Bystander, publisher@americanbystander.org, 1122 6th Street, Suite 403, Santa Monica, CA, 90403, US

Product information: Liberty Bags OAD113, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC

Warnings, Hazard: Blank product sourced from India, For adults

Care instructions: Spot clean, Do not bleach, Line dry, Do not iron directly over the printed area - print may stick to the iron.