RAILROAD MAGAZINES — Railroad Magazine and Trains Magazine, and their predecessors and successors, are highly collectible. - UNFINISHED - TO COME

PUCK MAGAZINE — Puck was a weekly satirical magazine, published between 1876 and 1918. Even from its earliest days, it featured colored covers and larger colored centerfolds. Its heavily satirical cartoons focused on public officials, government policies, and robber barons. Millionaires were often the targets, most particularly, William Henry Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Cyrus Field. Lower echelon manipulators included Russell Sage, Daniel Drew and Chauncey Depew. After the deaths of Vanderbilt, Gould and Field, the magazine turned its sights on E. H. Harriman, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan. This collection includes illustrations of over 150 cover and centerfold cartoons featuring those particular characters. With 52 issues per year, there are lots of biting social commentary to choose from. However, one frequently needs to consult Wikipedia and other sources to get a sense of what and whom are being portrayed. Even when complete magazines are in hand, commentary often takes research to more fully appreciate. A few additional covers portraying robber barons are known, but yet to be located. To learn more, see Satire on Stone: The Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler, by University of Illinois Press, 1988. The hands-down best source of Puck cartoons is the Library of Congress, but its search and filtering capabilities are sadly limited. Try searching for "Puck Cartoons" in the "Prints and Photographs Online Catalog." 

Judge Magazine was a fierce competitor of Puck and also featured satirical cartoons with the same general targets and purposes. It even cannibalized one of Puck's better cartoonists and ultimately outlasted the earlier magazine. I have not yet researched Judge at the LOC, but will as I get time.