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Two Irish women talk in a kitchen over a cup of tea. In the background, an old man is sitting in a rocking chair, reading the newspaper. Caption: Mrs. Kelly — Does your husband get good pay, Mrs. Rooney? / Mrs. Rooney — Well, he would, Mrs. Kelly, ef ut wasn’t fer shtriking so often fer better pay.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-12-17
Two young women kiss Santa Claus as he enters through a window with his bag of toys.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-12-03
Mr. and Mrs. Newrich and their daughter consult with a man who is using “Burke’s Peerage” to trace the lineage of a prospective son-in-law. Caption: Mrs. Newrich — You say Lord Naryared’s family only goes back to Charles II. / The Heraldic Expert — Yes; to Charles II. / Papa Newrich — Great Scott! Judging from what he owes I thought he must go back to William the Conqueror!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-02-26
A young man asks his girlfriend’s father for her hand in marriage. Caption: Cholly — Mr. Jones, I want your daughter; – our mutual love is as strong and tumultuous as the rapids of Niagara. / Mr. Jones — Well, have you got a “barrel” big enough for two?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-11-13
A housewife, noting a shortage of plates, asks the cook what has happened to the missing plates. Caption: Mrs. Sharpe (severely). — Norah, I can find only seven of these plates. Where are the other five? Cook (in surprise). — Sure, Mum, don’t yez make no allowances for ordinary wear an’ tear?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-05-22
A native king, sitting on a throne, speaks with his advisers about the presence of a missionary on the coast. Caption: “Your Majesty,” said the right-hand man of the native king, “there is a missionary working his way along the coast.” “Well, we don’t want to have any trouble,” said the king. “Ask him if his people won’t be satisfied with a coaling station.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-01-23
A Chinese woman with two children talks to an American missionary on a street with a market in the background. Caption: “But why is it,” asked the thoughtful Chinese, “that I may go to your heaven, while I may not go to your country?” The American missionary shrugged his shoulders. “There is no Labor vote in heaven!” said he.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-12-19
A fashionably dressed young woman holds on to a Christmas tree as Puck chops it down with an axe.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-12-12
Two upper class men are talking in the street in London, while a coach labeled “Picadilly Circus” is waiting in the background. Caption: Englishman–You have some pretty high buildings in Chicago, haven’t you? Chicagoan (in London)–Well, I should remark! Why, the tops of some of them are covered with snow the year around!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-01-31
Illustration showing a man sitting on a rock with a rifle across his lap, he is holding a Bible, a young boy is standing in front of him holding a toy rifle, and in the background, a woman is standing at the entrance to their house. Caption: Boer Child. — Father, if I were carrying the Bible in one hand and a gun in the other and an enemy approached, which should I drop first? Boer Father. — The enemy, my son!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-02-14
Illustration showing two Irishmen discussing a portrait of George Washington. Caption: Clancy. — I wonder whoi Washington wore a pigtail? Casey. — Sure, oi dunno! Mebby Chinamin hod votes in thim days!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-02-21
Special Easter edition cover, in an art nouveau style, shows a woman performing a magic trick by making Easter eggs and other prizes flow from a piece of paper rolled up like a cone; also a young girl with angel wings is holding an Easter egg and a rabbit.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-04-18
An African-American man holds two hands of playing cards. One hand includes cards that feature the faces of President Roosevelt, Chair of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou, J. Pierpont Morgan, Charles W. Fairbanks, New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell, and New York Lieutenant Governor Frank Wayland Higgins. The other hand includes cards that feature the faces of Patrick Henry McCarren, Charles Francis Murphy, William Jennings Bryan, David B. Hill, Alton B. Parker, and Henry Gassaway Davis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10
“The trusts” walk a lamb with President Roosevelt’s head on it toward the United States Capitol. Roosevelt wears a crown.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-12
“James Hazen Hyde, Abdul Hamid, [and] Castro” step off the earth hand in hand.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-05-26
A Chinese play is being acted on a small stage with Joseph Gurney Cannon and Nelson W. Aldrich offering two small doll-like figures labeled “Small Dealer” and “Consumer” to a dragon labeled “High Protection” manned by two men labeled “Special Privilege” and “Graft.” J. S. Sherman, John Dalzell, and Sereno E. Payne play musical instruments on the left side of the stage. On the back of the stage is a Buddha icon labeled “Greed.” In the foreground, at the foot of the stage, are Chinese men labeled “Lumber Trust, Paper Trust, Steel Trust, [and] Beef Trust.” On the far right, beneath a sign that states “Box Reserved for Amer. Protective Tariff League,” is a Chinese man labeled “Chas A. Moore” holding a tray with two small figures labeled “First Voter.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-03-10
Theodore Roosevelt holds a large bottle of champagne labeled “My Policies.” Roosevelt looks like he is about to christen a ship depicted as the face of William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-03-03
The bust portrait of “Miss Africa” appears over a heart on a Valentine’s card that states “Will You Be My Valentine?”, with two black putti.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-02-10
John Bull, standing with one foot on England and the other on Ireland, holds strings attached to many warships which encircle the United Kingdom, while overhead fly menacing armed aircraft. Caption: “Britannia needs no bulwarks, no towers along the steep; / Her march is o’er the mountain wave, her home is on the deep.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-01-06
A large winged serpent wearing a friendly mask frightens the passengers aboard an airship. The caption reads, “Which of our aerial navigators will report him first?”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-07-14