Illustration shows a man labeled “Workingman” bent over under the weight of an enormous dinner pail labeled “Tariff for Graft Only”.
Caption:
The Fullest Dinner Pail
Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.26274/
Puck, May 27, 1908
Note that the dinner pail was the analog of what we’d call the lunchbox today; dinner was, at one point, the mid-day meal.
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