Image: The Opium Racket, Gynberg Ballads, 1887

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Description: The Opium Racket. Satirical illustration mocking Hawaii's king Kalakaua ("The Duke of Gynberg") and his dealing with You Lie (Tong Kee) from the "Gynberg Ballads", a political satire published by Alatau T. Atkinson in 1887. According to historian Ralph Simpson Kuykendall, the ballad and illustrations are the works of Edward William Purvis, a former vice chamberlain in the Hawaiian royal court.
Title: The Opium Racket, Gynberg Ballads, 1887
Credit: Atkinson, Alatau Tamchiboulac; Purvis, Edward William (1887) The Gynberg Ballads, San Francisco: Schmidt Lithograph Co. OCLC: 978697438.
Author: Alatau T. Atkinson (publisher) and Edward William Purvis (anonymous)
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