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This cartoon includes depictions of a number of guests at the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Gridiron Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-09
Uncle Sam waves an American flag as President Roosevelt on a Republican elephant, Alton B. Parker on a Democratic donkey, and Thomas E. Watson on a goat hobbyhorse line up.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-06
At center, a grape-like bunch of faces is surrounded by scenes depicting a reading of the news regarding membership in an organization; a composer struggling to write a neutral war song; a merchant’s shop filled with inspectors rather than customers; an etiquette issue over which utensil to use; and a two panel war comic.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-10-31
Vignettes struggle to find humor in war. A “Metropolitan Opera Star” is greeted with applause by the enemy. A woman frets over the escalating cost of perfume. A young student finds it senseless to study “geography – It’s going to be changed anyhow!” A German man asks a French man “vat vould be a good Cherman name for Paris?” Two men suspect a dachshund of “German spying!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-10-17
Vignettes depict the latest in women’s fashions, including a pagoda-style dress and furs to match the shaved poodle, also with recommendations that “Monkey furs should be worn with discernment” and “We suggest the decorative boiled lobster” hat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-10-10
Vignettes depict scenes from the making of movies. At center is “The ancestral gallery of the future – picture of grandfather at breakfast” showing a group of upper class people with a movie projector illuminating a painting hanging on a wall that shows a man sipping tea from a saucer. The surrounding vignettes show the illusions created by movies.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-09-26
An infant sits in an overturned, spike-topped helmet labeled “Militarism.” When the image is rotated 180° it shows a skull wearing a helmet. The image accompanies text by Benjamin De Casseres.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-09-19
A formally dressed diminutive man stands on a dining table set for a banquet with dishes of fish, lobster, turkey, oysters, other foods, and bottles of alcohol blocking his path. Three attractive women in a large goblet extend glasses of wine, beckoning him to come to them. He has taken a step forward and wavers from fear or trepidation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-25
A man leans on his elbows on a table with stacks of coins and a roulette wheel. A red demon is on the left and a black demon is on the right.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-09-12
At center, a brawl is underway among reserve soldiers anxious for action. Surrounding vignettes depict war-related shortages and other problems at home, such as “printing the baseball news on the tenth page now” and “no more Paris fashions.” At top, boxer Jack Johnson approaches a French soldier playing “Aux Armes Citoyens” on the trumpet. At bottom is “Our valiant correspondent at the front” locked in a safe labeled “The Daily Howl” in the middle of a battlefield.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-09-05
Vignettes depict scenes from travel, including a shocked woman confronted by a “U.S. Customs” scarecrow; a distorted view of Pisa aided by “a wonderful quality of chianti”; a Dutch woman exchanging her traditional costume for the latest Parisian fashions after the tourists have gone home; a composite of images from “one of those hurried tours around the world,” compressing sites from many places into a single image/impression; ruins that remind the traveler of construction projects back home; a woman sitting on a lonely beach populated with signs for the many different “seas” she has encountered while traveling; and what may be a self-portrait of the artist sending postcards from places around the world, while never leaving home.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-29
An elderly businessman with his eyes closed dreams or reminisces of past affairs with young women who are clustered around and on his head, speaking in his right ear and caressing his cheeks.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-15
At center, Theodore Roosevelt kidnaps the “G.O.P.” elephant (this figure can be rotated 180° to show Roosevelt being kidnapped by the “G.O.P.”). Around this image are vignette scenes showing, on the left, Edward “Carson” kidnapping Ulster from “Home Rule Ireland,” a man with a movie camera who has lassoed theater-goers at the entrance to a theater labeled “Drama,” and a man wearing suit and top hat labeled “Prohibition” kidnapping the Statue of Liberty; and on the right, a British suffragist carrying a policeman labeled “The Law,” a newspaper labeled “The Calamity Howl” howling as sheaves of wheat labeled “Bumper Crop” carry off an infant labeled “Business,” and a woman labeled “Dame Fashion” kidnapping a corset.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-08
At center two large hands labeled “Militarism” and “Jingoism” are squeezing men labeled “Labor” and “Capital” over an inverted spike-topped helmet stuck in the ground and overflowing with their blood. There is a skull and crossbones emblem on the front of the helmet. Surrounding vignettes depict, on the left, science, art (sculpture), and woodworking, and on the right, agriculture, art (painting), and blacksmithing.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-01
The angel of peace sits on a rocky ledge, playing a large horn, with a dove sitting on her feet. Around her in the night sky are discordant images emerging from the horn, such as Marianne knocking over the “French Cabinet,” Turkey and Greece as Jack-in-the-boxes shooting at each other, King George V and “Lords” dealing with a firecracker labeled “Ulster” and the “Home Rule Bill,” a man carrying a large stick labeled “Interstate Commerce” about to strike a menacingly snake-like railroad train, and “Huerta” and “Villa” fighting atop a pile of dead bodies.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-18
A well dressed man with a crown on his head sits on the edge of a fishbowl, dangling a crown from a fishing pole among three beautiful young woman as goldfish.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-11
At Coney Island, people dance the tango, ride elephants, view themselves in optical illusion mirrors, have their pictures taken, and eat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-06-20
Several people sow caviar while others measure and harvest sturgeon in Astrakhan, Russia.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-06-13
A young woman looks through the thumb hole in a painter’s palette. A paintbrush extends through the hole, and the woman has a tiny black star on her chin.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-06-13
At center, “‘The Gleaners’ as Millet might have painted it to-day” shows fashionably dressed women gleaning a field. Surrounding scenes show farm life as one might imagine it for a “gentleman farmer.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-06-06