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A woman moors an airship to her chimney by the light of a full moon. On board the airship are “American Goods Bought in England” that are being smuggled into the U.S. because of high tariffs that make the products too expensive. Caption: Let him invest in an airship and smuggle his necessities.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-06-23
William Jennings Bryan pulls on a saddle strap labeled “[18]96, 1900, 1908” on the Democratic donkey, trying to get it tight enough for the pin to fit into “The Third Hole” labeled “1908.” Caption: Same old cinch, but considerably tighter this time.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-10-21
Theodore Roosevelt appears as a two-faced Janus chess game piece. On the left is an angelic “Roosevelt The National Savior” and on the right a devilish “Roosevelt the National Menace.” Caption: It all depends on the way you look at him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-09
“Postmaster General” George von Lergeke Meyer, dressed as Santa Claus, stands beneath a sign that states “What is home without Statistics,” placing sheets of paper labeled “On Everything” in stockings hung before a fireplace. He carries a mail pouch stuffed with notices labeled “Mr. Taft on the Tariff, Mr. Bryan on the Tariff, Mr. Taft on Publicity, Mr. Bryan on Publicity, Mr. Bryan’s Conception of the Presidency, Mr. Kern’s Conception of the Vice Presidency, [and] Mr. Sherman on Protection.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-09-16
At a gathering of “The Undiscovered Club,” the North Pole, recently discovered by either Frederick A. Cook or Robert E. Peary, is making a tearful departure. Those gathered and awaiting discovery are “The Man in the Iron Mask, Perpetual Motion, The man who wrote Shakespeare, Fountain of Youth, South Pole, The Lost Lenore wearing a pin labeled ‘Poe’, Universal Peace, Captain Kidd’s Treasure, Honest Graft, The Great American Novel, [and] Something for Nothing.” Caption: The North Pole leaves the ranks of the Undiscovered.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-10-13
Print shows an upper class British man shaking hands with Richard Croker at an equestrian event.
Caption: Lord Slapbang–I am proud to shake the hand of one of America’s uncrowned kings! / Richard Croker (to himself)–One! I wonder if he thinks there are two of us? Somebody must have been stuffing him about Platt!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-17
Print shows a young messenger boy asking a fashionably dressed young woman to sign for the delivery of her Easter bonnet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-05
Print shows two fashionably dressed young women, one sitting in a chair with her left foot resting on her right knee, holding a cane and gloves, and smoking a cigarette. The other is sitting on the edge of a table, holding a paper with the word “Freedom” at the top; there is an alcoholic beverage between them. These liberated women are discussing a remark made by the husband of one of them the prior evening. Caption: “I had a row with my husband after the play, last night.” / “What about?” / “He tried to call me down for going out between the acts to see a woman.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-03-29
Two fashionably dressed women, a mother and her daughter, attend a football game. Caption: Mrs. Newcome (her first game)–Oh! isn’t it awful? Horrible! Why, they will kill that man underneath! / Her Daughter (an enthusiast)–Oh! he doesn’t mind it, Mother. He’s unconscious by this time!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-12-20
Print shows Puck pushing a fashionably dressed young woman on ice skates on a pond or river in a wooded area.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-12-13
Print shows an Irish American miner returning home to his wife who asks why he is later than usual, suspecting that the miners are on strike again.
Caption: Mrs. Dolan (as her husband returns at an unusual hour)–An’ yez bees on anither stroike, eh? Phat’s the’ cause this toime? Mr. Dolan (grimly)–Oh! Oi guess th’ Walkin’ Dilegate’s behoind in his rint ag’in!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-11-08
Print shows Admiral George Dewey, full-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing military uniform, holding hat in right hand and sword in left hand, with silhouettes of battleships in the background and firecrackers at his feet, on the occasion of his return to New York.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-10-04
Print shows a man reclining on a “Map of New York” with Thomas Collier Platt holding a platter catching gold coins raining down in the form of bribes from above.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-09-13
Print shows an elderly woman showing paintings of her ancestors to a young woman; she explains to the young woman that her husband has no ancestors and that he complained about paying for hers.
Caption: Mrs. Newrich–These are my ancestors.
Mrs. Upperten–And your husband’s?
Mrs. Newrich–He hasn’t got any! Why, he even kicked about paying for mine!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-09-06
A gigantic J. Pierpont Morgan clutches to his chest with his right arm large New York City buildings labeled “Billion Dollar Bank Merger.” In the foreground, a young child puts a coin in a “Toy Bank” as Morgan’s left arm reaches around the buildings to grab the toy bank for himself. Caption: Why should Uncle Sam establish one, when Uncle Pierpont is already on the job?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-02-02
A smug-looking Humpty Dumpty labeled “Increased Cost of Living” sits on a stone wall labeled “Corners in Food Stuffs, Graft Tariff, Gambling in Futures, Cold-Storage Abuses, High Tariff Rates, Private Monopoly, Middle-Man Extortion, Waste of Natrual Resouces, Parasite Profits, [and] Unearned Incomes.” At the base of the wall a large group of citizens strike the wall with a battering ram labeled “The Ballot.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-01-26
A boiler labeled “Brother Straitlace,” with a fire labeled “The Simple Life” and a lever labeled “Trip to New York,” blows off steam that shows New Year’s eve revelers in New York City. Caption: A device that keeps many an out-of-town boiler from blowing up.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-12-29
A sleeping, bloated man labeled “Protected Monopolist” shies away from a turkey labeled “Income Tax” that appears to have risen from the remains of the Thanksgiving Day dinner labeled “High Tariff Plunder.” Caption: A natural result of gluttony.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-11-17
President Roosevelt takes a walk with a male companion. The page is broken into five numbered frames. Roosevelt is speaking in each frame and becoming more and more animated. As he does so, he rapidly outdistances his companion. In the last frames, Roosevelt says, “I tell you, sir, Congress is a weakling-g-g!” “They are all deliberate and unqualified falsifiers.” However, his walking companion is left far behind.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1907-04-17
President Roosevelt is pictured in a variety of atypical situations. Clockwise from upper left: taking pictures of a bear family, playing chess, breaking up a scuffle between two boys, turning his back on a mother with a large family, and sitting with Syracuse University Chancellor James Roscoe Day in a hammock.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1907-08-21