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Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna hands President Roosevelt an “endorsement” bouquet as he looks at Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker. On the wall is an “Ohio Convention” banner.
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1903-06-03
Uncle Sam stands beside President Roosevelt and points to the “Post Office Scandal U. S. Mail” punching bag. On the ground are dumbbells, a barbell, and Indian clubs—”vigor” and “energy.”
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1903-06-15
President Roosevelt rides a horse and directs Postmaster General Henry C. Payne riding on an “investigation” Republican elephant to go higher to the “postal frauds” mountain. In the background is a large star with the label of “Star Route frauds.”
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1903-06-17
President Roosevelt rushes ahead on a horse and drags Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, who rides on an “Ohio” saddle blanket on another horse, along behind him.
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1903-06-20
Perry S. Heath sits on a “higher up” stake as August W. Machen, James N. Tyner, the Bureau of Promotions, and “Rural Free Delivery” are swept along in the current of the river. The United States Capitol building can be seen from afar.
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1903-06-22
President Roosevelt sits atop a surprised-looking Republican elephant as a scarecrow labeled “Iowa idea” of tariff reform” stands in front of them.
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1903-06-30
People look at a ruined United States Capitol building standing next to a volcano that has just erupted.
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1908-12-20
President Roosevelt bangs on the Senate side of the United States Capitol building and music notes come out. Caption: There’s music in the air.
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1909-01-08
President Roosevelt wears a mask and sits at a desk with Secret Service reports. On the wall are “Rogue’s Gallery no. 1–Members of Congress,” a “list of undesirable citizens–Harriman, Rockefeller, Foraker, Haskell, and Tilman,” and a March 1909 calendar. On the other wall is a sign–“Old Sleuth Hawkshaw & Co.: Private Investigations. Shadowing”–and some disguises, including “mollycoddle masks,” “Ananias masks,” “malefactors of great wealth,’ and a coat “for the frivolous judge disguise.” On the ground are “gum shoes” and a “Muck Rake” cat.
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1909-01-10
President Roosevelt and Senator “Pitchfork” Benjamin R. Tillman, identifiable by their footwear, Rough Rider leggings and a farmer’s hobnail boots, are buried underneath a pile of trash as they hold up “the big stick” and a pitchfork. Various scraps of paper have words on them: “liar,” “thief,” “fraud,” and “spite work.”
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1909-01-14
“Bumble puppy” and “Billy possum” carry a teddy bear with a “big noise” drum on a stretcher past a “persimmon tree.” In the background, President-elect William H. Taft swings a golf club.
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1909-01-23
John D. Rockefeller sits in a rocking chair and talks to a group of children–President Roosevelt, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, Ida M. Tarbell, Frank B. Kellogg, Thomas William Lawson, and a “muck rake” cat. A “Standard Oil” lamp lights the room. Caption: “Now, children, I’ll tell you the story of my life.”
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1908-11-20
President Roosevelt wears a “typewriter” on his back and points his finger at an elephant in Africa as another man photographs the incident. Caption: Mr. Roosevelt’s equipment need not be expensive.
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1908-12-09
President Roosevelt stands in mud labeled “Panama Ananias Cut” as he throws dirt on William MacKay Laffan and Delavan Smith.” Meanwhile, Joseph Pulitzer hides behind a rock and holds up a paper: “World–‘Never touched me!’ J. Pulitzer.”
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1908-12-10
President Roosevelt wears a cape and holds a mirror and a candle. In front of him is a “muckrake.”
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1908-12-13
President Roosevelt holds a torch as he walks through a cellar of gunpowder. There are two signs: “for Representatives” and “for Senators.” Behind him are the “Secret Service sleuths” and in front of him is a “muckrake” cat.
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1908-12-17
President Roosevelt beats on a bass drum at the center of a spotlight as William H. Taft speaks in the dark.
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1908-09-26
A man rows a boat on tempestuous water with Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell, and T. Coleman Du Pont. President Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan stand on a cliff on the edge of the water.
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1908-09-27
President Roosevelt watches an elephant drink from the “Old Wall St. Spring.”
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1908-10-11
A scarecrow–“straw vote”–casts a vote “for Taft.” President Roosevelt and William H. Taft look on as there are “reports” on the table in front of them. Caption: T. R.–“We win.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-16