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A gold miner stands at the door to a cabin telling the miners inside, who are celebrating Christmas, that there has been a “gold strike up the creek,” which causes the miners to rush for the door. Caption: Man at Door — Hey, you fellers! There’s been a gold strike up the creek!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-12-04
The Republican elephant stands among the bones and ghosts of dinosaurs. One is offering a membership card that states “Ancient Order of Extinct Animals – Membership Ticket.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-27
Two football players are dressed in outlandish gear. The one on the left wears a red uniform labeled “1892,” and the one on the right wears a blue uniform labeled “1912.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-13
President Taft, wearing a suit of armor, holds a standard labeled “Campaign of the Full Dinner Pail.” A squire labeled “Sherman” is placing the helmet with plume labeled “W.H. Taft” over his head. Another squire labeled “Penrose” is drawing back the opening of the tent through which Taft can enter the fray.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-16
Two giants, one labeled “Taft” and the other labeled “T.R.”, stand back to back, nervously perspiring, as a young boy holds aloft a sword labeled “Tariff Revision” with his right hand while holding a basket labeled “The Empty Market Basket” to his chest with his left hand.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-09-11
A young “Boy Scout” standing outside his tent meets “Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack [Omohundro], Kit Carson, California Joe, [and] Dan’l Boone.” Caption: “Put it thar, Pard! Yer do us proud!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-06-05
A ship labeled “American Business” sails into a fog labeled “The Sherman Law” and passes a bell buoy labeled “Dept. of Justice.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-22
Two children are surrounded by broken toys. The toys are pointing fingers at the children and complaining to Santa Claus about the treatment they’ve received from them over the past year. Santa is sitting on the right, reading a large book labeled “Condition of Last Years Toys.” Caption: Indignant Chorus of Last Year’s Toys — Do they deserve anything more, Your Honor? Just look what they did to Us!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-12-06
A man wearing a top hat labeled “Lawyer” sits on a pile of money bags labeled “Fees” in a cart drawn by a donkey labeled “The Law.” The reins are labeled “Red Tape” and the harness is labeled “Technicalities” and “Delays.” Hanging from a whip just beyond the donkey’s reach is a carrot labeled “Conviction of the Guilty.” A large horseshoe magnet labeled “Positive” and “Negative” hangs off the side of the cart.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-01-03
An Asian, possibly Chinese, soldier offers scissors labeled “Enlightenment” to Uncle Sam so that he can cut off his long braid labeled “Partisan Politics.” The soldier’s own severed braid labeled “Servitude” lies on the ground at his feet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-01-31
The ghostly figure of a manic-looking man, labeled “Judge Lynch” and carrying a book labeled “Lynch Law” and a lighted torch, hovers over a procession of people. The procession is led by three solid citizens followed by farmers, unruly elements, and finally a long line of regular citizens including women, who look back at a small column of smoke in the distance – presumably a lynching. One of the unruly men shoots at a dog. (“Judge Lynch” was the personification of the practice, frequently found in the South, of executing African Americans suspected of crimes without the benefit of trial. In the second decade of the Twentieth Century, Progressives advocated various reforms designed to circumvent the state governments viewed as the tools of entrenched interests. The Recall was intended to allow the citizenry to directly vote officials out of office. The cartoonist suggests that this first be used to abolish the practice of lynching.)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-02-21
President William H. Taft, as a scout, sneaks up on a tipi labeled “Outlook Wig-Wam” which shows the shadows of several men wearing feather headdresses. The one on the left may be Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-06
A British soldier tries to dodge bullets during the American Revolutionary War.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-03
A child-like figure labeled “American Industry,” supported by an infant walker on wheels labeled “High Protection,” holds in one hand a bottle of “Payne Aldrich Baby Food” and in the other a rattle shaped like the U.S. Capitol dome. On the tray of the walker is a broken elephant, an eagle, a bull moose, and a donkey. Caught underneath the support is an Uncle Sam doll. Caption: His delusion is that he cannot walk alone.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-31
On the left, anxious businessmen are gathered around a ticker tape machine, reading the ticker tape. On the right, anxious gamblers are gathered around a roulette wheel, awaiting the outcome. Caption: If it is legal to gamble in Wall Street, why isn’t it legal to gamble in the West Forties?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-28
On the left, pedestrians and people in and on top of buildings look with amazement at an airplane flying over a city. On the right, citizens no longer take notice of all the airplanes crowding the sky above the city. Caption: As it was a year or two ago / As it may be a year or two from now.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-08-23
A skeleton labeled “Death,” as a gladiator, stands over “The Sick.” Before giving the death stroke, the skeleton looks to the spectators seated in a section identified as “Anti-Vivisectionists,” who, holding their pets close, give the “thumbs down” signal. The emblem on their banner shows a hand about to snuff the flame on a lamp labeled “Progress.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-07
Two men in a make-shift laboratory are about to operate on a live rabbit. A group of concerned citizens has entered on the left, attempting to stop the operation. The spirits of many past victims of illnesses are on the right imploring the men to continue with their research for the sake of humanity. Caption: The Sentimentalists — For mercy’s sake, stop! / The Sufferers — For humanity’s sake, go on!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-02-22
Theodore Roosevelt on horseback carrying two guns, dressed as Rough Rider, in front of city hall.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910