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The Red Room at the White House is depicted in complete disarray with stains and holes knocked into the doors, furniture overturned, plaster cracked, and pictures hung at odd angles on the walls.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10
President Roosevelt points revolvers toward several items: a “beef trust” bull, a “railroad rebate” locomotive, and a “Standard Oil” can. Meanwhile, John Findley Wallace runs toward the “subway.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-02
Thomas Collier Platt waves his top hat while riding on the back of a bucking donkey. The donkey is labeled “Tribune” and has the face of Whitelaw Reid, and is in the ring at the “G.O.P. Circus.” Among those in the audience is Chauncey M. Depew.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-02-05
President Grover Cleveland and British Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, are dressed as Native Americans, smoking peace pipes filled with “Common Sense Tobacco.” Sitting with Cleveland, also dressed as natives, are Richard Olney, Robert R. Hitt, Charles A. Boutelle, Nelson Dingley, George Frisbie Hoar, William E. Chandler, John T. Morgan, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Sitting with Salisbury are Joseph Chamberlain, Arthur James Balfour, George Joachim Goschen, and the Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish. In the foreground is a hatchet in a hole, to be buried, possibly over the Venezuela boundary dispute.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-01-22
At top, a laborer daydreams he has the ears of a mule and carries a banner that states, “Strike! No Surrender! Down with Capital!” He is being led over barricades by a “Walking Delegate” who gestures toward a laborer standing with one foot on a prostrate industrialist. At the bottom is depicted the reality of an unemployed laborer’s waking life of familial discord, though he still has the ears of a mule. Caption: Same old day-dream. Same old awakening.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-03-20
Uncle Sam and Puck offer a toast to the New Year and Peace, with several heavily armed representatives of nations labeled “France, J. Bull, Turkey, Russia, Germania, [and] Italy” sitting around a table.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-01-01
A group of women in a gallery “Reserved for American Wives of English Lords” hold strings attached to crowns on the heads of their husbands in the House of Lords. Caption: A sure guarantee of peace between America and England.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-18
William E. Chandler, former Secretary of the Navy under President Arthur, salutes from a trap door in the floor where he is hiding. Red-stained papers labeled “Plan of Campaign Against England” by “W. E. Chandler Jingo-in-Chief” are on the floor, and bombs are exploding outside the door to the room. Portraits of John Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant hang on the wall in the background. Under Grant’s portrait, the text “Let Us Have Peace” has been crossed out. A much larger portrait of “W. E. Chandler Painted by Himself” and labeled “Ex-Secretary of United States Navy – Before the War” hangs next to the others. Also hanging on the wall is a “Proclamation Against England – No. 999” labeled in red “War.” Caption: Where our bloodthirstiest Jingo will be found when a real war comes.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-11
Puck holds mistletoe over the head of a young woman who is reading a magazine or newspaper.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-04
“Dr. Schurz” holding a large carving knife and sharpening tool, “Dr. Grace,” and “Dr. Parkhurst” holding a saw examine a sick tiger labeled “Tammany.” A medicine case in the foreground contains a drill, pincers, and a bottle of “Giant Powder – Reform Brand.” Caption: Cut him up into small pieces; – don’t let any of his nine lives get away!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-06
A monkey wearing a military uniform holds a sword labeled “Clan-na-Gael” and a flag that states “No Peaceful Solution! War!” The monkey stands on soil labeled “United States,” looking across the “Atlantic Ocean” at a lion dozing on ground labeled “Great Britain.” At the monkey’s feet is a cup labeled “To Free Ireland,” with a tag that states “Servant Girls Please Contribute.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-23
David B. Hill and Charles F. Crisp lie awake in a bed, suffering the nightmare of a spirit dragon labeled “Third Term.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-02
A hydra-like jack-in-the-box labeled “Political Trick-Box” has the heads and arms of Matthew S. Quay, David B. Hill, and Arthur P. Gorman, each holding a whip labeled “Bosses” and pointing an index finger.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-09-25
A future Fourth of July celebration is depicted where women have gained suffrage and equality. Young and old women ring a bell labeled “Equal Rights.” A notice on the bell tower states “Strike Out the Word Male.” Women emerge from underground and participate in a procession, marching under banners that state “United Order of Matinee Women” and “Higher Culture Division.” The procession passes two statues, one of a woman holding a rolling pin labeled “Erected to the Memory of the First Woman Who Wore Breeches” and the second of an eagle wearing a bonnet, labeled “The American Bird is a Hen Eagle and Lays Eggs. [?] Blake Sculp.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-04
The U.S. Senate chamber is reduced to pandemonium when a Senate Page announces the unexpected arrival of “Investigators Lexow and Goff.” Among the senators scrambling for cover are Arthur P. Gorman, Matthew S. Quay, Calvin S. Brice, Edward Murphy Jr., and George F. Hoar. Caption: The awful scene that would ensue if investigators Lexow and Goff should unexpectedly appear in the U.S. Senate chambers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-27
A woman is denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled, “Ballots must be prepared in these booths.” A policeman is standing on the left, and, in the background, election officials are standing over the ballot box for “Election District No. 13.” Caption: How can she vote, when the fashions are so wide, and the voting booths are so narrow?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-06
Thomas B. Reed, in the role of “Lohengrin,” arrives to rescue “Elsa” as the “Republican Party of New York,” with Thomas Collier Platt in the role of “Telramund” and Lemuel E. Quigg in the role of “Ortrud,” his wife. They are all at the gate of a castle and a swan labeled “Aspiration” is in a moat at far left. Caption: “The Republican Elsa would gladly be rescued from her oppressors.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-15
The family of “Tom Popleigh” happily decorates a Christmas tree. In a vignette at left, a well-dressed man gestures toward the growing family of Popleigh and vows to remain a bachelor. In a vignette on the right, the elderly bachelor sits alone at a table and ponders what he has missed by remaining unmarried. The caption reads: “But the years have done all this for Popleigh.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-08
A shotgun wedding between Uncle Sam and Hawaii is being presided over by a minister labeled “McKinley” who is reading from the “Annexation Policy.” A former Confederate general labeled “Sen. Morgan” with a “Jingo” feather in his hat stands behind them holding a shotgun labeled “Bluster.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-01
Presidents Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley nurse a foundling labeled “Civil Service Reform” discovered on “the White House steps” that was “left by Geo. H. Pendleton 1883,” through four administrations, to the point where she has become a young woman on a bicycle-built-for-two with McKinley. Caption: Showing how civil service reform has been preserved from the deadly spoils fever.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-17