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Two men and Carl Schurz, holding hands and labeled “C. & H.”, sit on James Gillespie Blaine who is lying on the ground wearing armor.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-26
Newspaper editors Whitelaw Reid and Murat Halstead try to distance themselves from Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa holding newspaper headlines that indicate their earlier support. Caption: They liked him before election – they disown him now.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-02-04
Former Confederate general Fitzhugh Lee stands next to the fox hide labeled “The Old Virginia Fox, Mahone” that he has nailed to a door. Behind the door is a saddle labeled “The Treason-Stained Saddle.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-11-11
Uncle Sam prepares a list of places in China where “Americans [have been] killed by Chinese,” and a Chinese man prepares a list of places in America where “Chinese [have been] killed by Americans,” including the latest incident in “Wyoming Territory.” Caption: China “Taking in the late massacre of my people in Wyoming Territory, there seems to be a slight balance to my credit!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-09-16
Puck hangs onto the coat-tails of William H. Vanderbilt, who is holding a money bag labeled “Donation of $500,000 to Build a New Medical College,” as he climbs the steps to a building labeled “N. Y. College of Physicians & Surgeons.” At the top of the steps are trustees and men with surgical instruments eagerly awaiting the donation. On the right, in the background, is a man standing in the doorway of a building beneath a sign that states “Crape & Plantem. Undertakers.” He is waving a white cloth. Caption: Vanderbilt – “The public be – doctored!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-29
Print shows a group of men, probably President Garfield’s physicians, exiting Francklyn Cottage where Garfield died. The men hold slips of paper that state “Self Exoneration”. Three men standing on the left hold papers that state “Private Theory, Temperance Ideas, [and] Power of Prayer”. (They may represent physicians that were dismissed when Garfield appeared to be recovering).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-09-28
Illustration showing Jay Gould as the Devil holding a paper labeled “Majority of Stock”, standing outside an office labeled “Successor to Satan”; he is presiding over the “Hades & World Lightning Transportation Line” which is a railroad train headed for a station labeled “Terminus – President Jay Gould.” The locomotive is labeled “Crasher” and uses “Brimstone” for fuel, a passenger car is labeled “Only Anti-Monopolists Carried,” also the “Sulphuric Telegraph Co. – Gould Pres.” which has many devil-like demons stringing wire cables on telegraph poles and an office where telegraph operators work at desks beneath a sign that states “Any Imp who attempts to strike will be transferred to the Western Union Company”, as well as “The Bottomless Pit Roasting Co. – Jay Gould, Pres.” where an “Anti-Monopolist editor”, “Puck”, and “Thurber” are roasted “in effigy.” At bottom, a man labeled “Satan Janitor”, with bandages, carries a scuttle filled with brimstone, a watering-can labeled “Kerosene”, a broom, and a key ring, skulks down the steps from Gould’s office. Caption: How the place will be run, two years after Jay Gould’s arrival.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-09-19
Print shows Chester A. Arthur dressed as a dandy, walking on a sidewalk with a young woman labeled “Republican Party” who is carrying a small dog labeled “Protection.” Standing behind them, on the sidewalk, is Roscoe Conkling, also dressed as a dandy, with a medallion with the number “306” (a reference to the number of delegates who voted for U.S. Grant at the Republican Convention), in the background is the U.S. Capitol labeled “Congressional Club House”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-09-26
John Kelly bends to pick up a wallet labeled “New York City Mayoralty” that is lying in the street. Puck, hiding behind a tree, is holding on to a string attached to the wallet, ready to pull it out of Kelly’s reach.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-04-08
A dejected soldier sits at a train station beneath a sign that states “Trains Leave Every Hour for Fort Tombstone Fort Lonesome Fort Scalp’em and all Western Army Outposts” and near another sign that states “Special Accommodations for Transferred Army Officers,” with an infant on his lap and his traveling orders labeled “Ordered to go West Secy. Endicott” between his knees. His extended family of wife, mother-in-law(?), children’s nanny, and several rambunctious children accompany him. In the lower right foreground is a valise labeled “Major Dunerfull.” Caption: The effect of government reform on a military man of quiet domestic ambitions.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-08-26
Benjamin F. Butler is a laborer standing next to a box of “Tools for Exhibition Purposes,” with “Butler’s Valet” next to him. At the valet’s feet are papers labeled “R. R. Stock [and] Monopolists’ fees” and behind him is a safe labeled “Bonds.” Butler is holding papers labeled “Speech.” Through a window is seen a tattered man standing next to signs that state “Grand Butler Mass Meeting” and “Please Keep Order and Don’t Crowd.” Caption: Butler (to his valet) – “Keep an eye on the valuables, while I go out and address the mass-meeting!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-09-10
A woman labeled “Mrs. Lockwood,” holding papers that state “Nomination for Pres. Womens’ Rights Party,” bursts through an opening in the floor of a stage to appear next to a clown labeled “B. B.” who is holding a paddle labeled “Demagogism” and a string of sausages labeled “His Own Nomination, Womens’ Suffrage Nomination, Tewksbury Pauper Nomination, Convict Party Nomination, Greenback Nomination, [and] Last Nomination.” Caption: Arrival of the political columbine to join the political clown.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-09-17
Benjamin F. Butler is a shoe shiner with his kit, stooping to pick up a smoldering cigar butt labeled “Grady” that John Kelly, on the left, has discarded. They are on a sidewalk in front of the “Tamma[ny] Ciga[r] Stor[e]” where there is a sign posted on the building that states “Cleveland Cigars – New and Popular Brand” with a cigar store Indian figure at the door.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-09-24
Print shows John Kelly driving a wagon labeled “Tammany” overloaded with rowdy delegates to the New York state convention in Syracuse. The wagon is being pulled by the Tammany tiger. Several men are drinking alcoholic beverages, while one man plays a harp.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-23
Justice, an old woman, sleeps at a desk, with cobwebs, spiders, and mice taking over the courtroom. Outside a window an armed group of vigilantes have broken down the door to a jail and removed a man whom they are about to hang from a nearby tree. One man carries a flag that states “Lively Lynchers.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-07-04
Several reporters for disreputable newspapers, such as “Reporter of the ‘Daily Sewer'” and “Reporter for the ‘Daily Garbage Barrel,'” are barred from entering a courthouse. Caption: The reporters of incorrigible scandal-mongering journals must be kept out of the criminal courts, or we shall have to keep the newspapers out of our homes.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-06-03
George M. Robeson, William E. Chandler, and John Roach sit on the hull of a ship resting on its side with patches labeled “Repairs” partially covering holes. Caption: A historical picture.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-07-01
Three women are bathing putti with bars of soap and hanging them by their wings on a line to dry.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-07-04
A man stands at a dining room table, using various chemical apparatus, such as a “Milk Tester” with “High Water Mark,” a “Sand Extractor” over a “Sugar” bowl, and a “Butter Tester,” as well as a microscope and a retort, to analyze food products before sitting down to eat. He has a book titled “Chemistry” in his coat pocket. Caption reads: “Look before you eat – and see if you can discover any unadulterated food.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-03-12
Jay Gould is a spider on a web of “Western Union” telecommunication lines that extend from several utility poles and cover (ensnare) Justice atop a “Courthouse.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-07-22