4.25x6.5". c.1880s. Blank reverse with paper print on front. Apparently showing fourteen Indiana politicians, twelve with photographic heads on cartoon bodies. Only one man has a name tag on his chest as "Holden" and he rides high wheeled bicycle. Other fascinating details include these: two flying men with wings, one riding a baseball bat and one holding "XXX" liquor jug and holding "Terre Haute Or Bust" satchel; sign above door "Billiards, Free Bar./Proposed Improvements"; man as artist, three men holding playing cards, man holding another man's head to "Politics" grindstone labeled "Balm Hurt Minds." In addition a man holds a sign "Rentz-Stantley's F.M. 8 P.M." This seems to reference the father of American burlesque. Michael B. Leavitt is cited as creating the first touring burlesque company and the burlesque style in general. He formed an all women black faced minstrel troupe named "Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels." The format was a three-act black-face minstrel show combined with vaudeville and musical travesty. He called the new genre "Burlesque." The troupe was later renamed the Rentz-Stantley Company so it seems the sign in the cartoon is referring to a performance of the Rentz-Stantley Female Minstrels. More on Leavitt's innovative entertainment field accomplishments are on Wikipedia. NM.