Garfield
Print shows James A. Garfield, bust portrait, facing left, in oval, with scenes from his life and death; includes verse.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1881-09-07
Your TR Source
Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894
Our Indian policy – a house of cards
Print shows Uncle Sam sitting at a table outside an “Indian Store” with Natives and government agents gathered around; he was constructing a house of cards labeled “Indian Policy” until the government agents and a man standing on a box labeled “Boston Sentimentalist” leaned over and blew on it, knocking it down.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1881-09-14
Creator(s)
The food of our youth
Print shows a mean-spirited infant boy in a cradle labeled “Infant Indian Exterminators”, armed with a rifle, knives, and handguns, feeding from a large bottle filled with “Dime Novel” and “5 ct. Paper[back]” literature, with other action and adventure books about “Pirates” and an “Indian Killer” on the floor around the cradle.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1881-09-21
Creator(s)
Life’s ups-and-downs — Puck’s improvement on Cole’s “Voyage of Life”
Two men ride bicycles. One is just starting out on life’s journey, being towed by Father Time. The second one is nearing the end of life’s journey and about to get caught by a scythe and thrown from the bicycle into a grave. Milestones and signs mark the journey: in youth there is “Health,” between 20 and 30 there is “Happiness,” at 40 there is “Pleasure,” at 50 “Hope,” at 60 there is “Neglect,” between 60 and 70 there are “Regrets” and “Sickness,” at 80 there is “Fear,” and at 90 is an open grave with an owl perched on the mile-marker. At the top center is a “Half Way House” and at bottom center, in a floral arrangement, is an hourglass on top of a clock.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1883-07-11
Creator(s)
The administration’s hardest job
President Cleveland and his cabinet officers struggle to push and pull the Democratic donkey labeled “Bourbon Democracy” into a stable labeled “Reform Stables.” On the donkey’s hooves, acting as brakes, are the faces of John Kelly labeled “Spoils System,” Charles A. Dana labeled “Anti-Civil Service Reform,” “Mclaughlin”, [and] “J.R. M’Lean.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-07-22
Creator(s)
A Lenten dream
A mermaid labeled “Presidency” swims in water with a clear view of the fish that are attracted to her. Depicted are David Davis, Grover Cleveland, Joseph E. McDonald, Benjamin F. Butler, Robert Todd Lincoln, John Sherman, Sereno Payne, Chester A. Arthur, William T. Sherman, John Kelly, Samuel J. Tilden, Allen G. Thurman, Abram S. Hewitt, Roswell P. Flower, John Logan, Thomas Bayard, James G. Blaine, Ulysses S. Grant, Roscoe Conkling, Samuel J. Randall, and Winfield Scott Hancock.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1884-03-12
Creator(s)
In memoriam U. S. Grant
The body of Ulysses S. Grant lies in state in front of an angel joining the hands of two female figures, one labeled “North” and the other labeled “South” under the heading “Let Us Have Peace.” Mars sits on the left and “Clio” sits on the right, with an incense burner between them.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-07-29