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President Roosevelt watches from above as a lady labeled “District of Columbia” and a tiger labeled “Spoils” fight over a chair labeled “District of Columbia Judgeship.” Caption: The Lady: “Justice, Mr. President, this belongs to me.” The Tiger: “Hands off, young woman! This goes to my bag, Teddy, and don’t you forget it.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-19
Theodore Roosevelt with his hunting rifle looks up at a treed raccoon labeled “Beef Trust.” Caption: Coon (to David Crockett Roosevelt): “Don’t shoot, I’ll come down.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-28
A ring fighter named “Cuban Reciprocity” with “Ways and Means” and “Administration Promise” is knocking out the “Sugar Beet” trust.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-12
Theodore Roosevelt waves a banner with “Reciprocity” written on it as the ghost of William McKinley stands in the shadows. Caption: “The banner which William McKinley raised and Theodore Roosevelt saved”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-15
A Republican elephant with a “sound money” trunk in a boat and a Democratic donkey in a bucket attempt to row to the “White House.” The donkey says, “Lend me your trunk and I’ll beat you!” Uncle Sam holds a revolver and watches.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-13
William Jennings Bryan, Alton B. Parker, Grover Cleveland, and William Randolph Hearst roll eggs on the White House lawn. One egg is broken. The other read: “Cleveland 3rd term,” “? Parker,” and “Trust busting Hearst.” President Roosevelt says from inside the White House, “You can play in my back yard.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-04
A Republican elephant and Democratic donkey use a “Panama” machine as President Roosevelt—”engineer”—looks on. Arthur P. Gorman watches from afar.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-24
A goat with a head that resembles David B. Hill rams its head into the “administration’s Panama policy” brick wall. Three goats watch in the background. One asks, “Are you going to try it, Billy?” Another says, “How do you like my Panama accordian pleat?” A bald eagle and “Panama” watch from the top of the brick wall and chuckle.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-05
“Cuba” and a woman labeled “reciprocity” walk toward the “White House.” The “Senate” and “House” are to their right. A bald eagle says, “Teddie is with you.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-17
Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow and President Roosevelt shine “publicity” light on four men holding money, bribes, and grafts. The light is fed by the “Bristow Report.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-30
President Roosevelt, holding on to his big stick, prepares himself to get on “the stump.” Uncle Sam urges him on, saying, “Jump on it Teddy.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-1907
President Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan sit on spatulas, with heat coming from “Wit, humor, etc.” below them. Roosevelt seems to be enjoying the ride, while Parker remains impassive.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903
President Taft swims in a lake labeled “My policies — T. R.” Two boys observe, the first commenting, “Sure! He’s great big — he’s got de ava de poiz [avoirdupois, “weight, heaviness”] — he can’t sink.” The second says, “Gee! He’s a regular floater.” A moon with President Roosevelt’s face rises in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
President Roosevelt readies his big stick, labeled “1912,” standing above the sleeping form of President Taft.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-1912
From the White House, President Roosevelt assists Secretary to the President William Loeb in reloading a cannon with “Letters to Bryan” as ammunition, asking, “Did that last one reach him? Load her up — plenty more coming.” In the background, William Jennings Bryan stands by his own cannon, saying: “Did that one touch him.” Caption [handwritten]: Keep it up your making some great hits.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
A four panel cartoon showing National Guardsmen marching into Camp Ordway in Washington, D.C.; President Roosevelt assisting Foreign Affairs Minister Komura and Secretary of State Witte with the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War; Secretary of Agriculture Wilson celebrating the return of Hyde (possibly James Hazen Hyde); and a Mississippian and a Louisianan eying each other across the state line, while a mosquito above them says, “Here’s where I get my work in. Biz-z-z.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905
A group of legislators meet at night, but are threatened by the specter of President Roosevelt, wielding his “Big Stick.” Caption: Will it fall? …
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-1907
Six frame cartoon showing Benjamin F. Barnes expecting to be punished for throwing a woman out of his office, and instead, being rewarded with the position of Washington, D.C., postmaster.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-04-03
Six frame cartoon showing a citizen of Washington, D.C., anticipating that a resident of the District would be elected postmaster, and his reaction when Benjamin F. Barnes, of New Jersey, instead receives the position from President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-04-07
Six frame cartoon showing President Roosevelt appointing Benjamin F. Barnes as postmaster of Washington, D.C., and then showing Barnes being hit in the face by “Public Disapproval.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-04-04