Puck's Gallery of Celebrities—The King of A-Shantee

Frederick Opper's single-panel cartoon depicts two Irish immigrants inside a ramshackle shanty: a man seated on an overturned washtub and a woman standing nearby amid squalid domestic clutter. The punning caption—'The King of A-Shantee'—collapses 'shanty' (the slum dwelling) with 'Ashanti' (the West African kingdom). Both figures are rendered with exaggerated features characteristic of anti-Irish caricature of the 1870s–80s. *Puck* deployed such imagery during peak Irish immigration, reflecting anxieties about Tammany Hall political power and urban overcrowding.