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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

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Political pirates

William Jennings Bryan, as a pirate on a ship labeled “Popocracy,” stands on a barrel, playing a violin, attempting to lure a nearby ship labeled “National Prosperity” close enough so that his band of pirates can board it. Among those pirates identified are “Tillman, Altgeld, Lease, St. John, Sewall, Watson, Peffer, Sulzer, Waite, Debs, Bland, Wm. Stewart, Hill, Blackburn, [and] Coxey.” The men are armed with guns, knives, and rifles. Blackburn has a patch labeled “1895” over his right eye. Caption: Trying to lure a rich prize, in good old buccaneer fashion.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-09-23

Puck’s labor-saving suggestion for Cupid’s summer work

Puck, at top center, manipulates an electric bow-shooting device, which sends arrows toward couples in the surrounding vignettes, where they are sitting beneath trees on the shores of a lake, riding bicycles, canoeing, swimming, boating, playing tennis and golf, and riding in a carriage. Caption: An electric arrow-shooting battery would beat the old-time bow, and […] the hearts of forty times as many victims, with neatness and despatch.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-08-19

Another delay

President McKinley addresses an audience from a stage in a theater. Behind the curtain, an overturned hat labeled “Aldrich” lies on the stage next to a man holding papers labeled “Committee on Finance,” kneeling before another man who is about to strike him with a club labeled “Demands of Western Senators.” Two other “members of the cast” are engaged in a fist-fight.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-06-16

He keeps them worried

Former president Grover Cleveland and his wife Frances play with their children, Ruth, Esther, and Marion, in the backyard of their residence. Several men labeled “Morgan, Daniel, Pugh, Faulkner, Vest, Dana, [and] Gorman” spy on them from behind a fence, bushes, and over a hedge.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-06-09

The woes of the sabbatarian fanatic – they get greater every year

A member of the clergy, a strict “Sabbatarian,” observes and deplores people engaging in various Sunday activities, including boating and bicycling. In the center vignette, Satan objects to the Sunday outings, too, because they seem “to make people better, instead of worse.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-05-26

Why he is happy

Spanish general and Cuban governor Valerià Weyler sits on his horse on an island labeled “Cuba.” A bomb labeled “Dissatisfaction” is burning near the rear of the horse. In the background, the dark clouds of the Cuban rebellion are overshadowed by heavier clouds of war labeled “Græco-Turkish War.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-05-12

In memory of the Grant monument dedication, April 27th, 1897

A large angel of peace stands atop a monument labeled “Grant,” on which a Union veteran and a Confederate veteran are placing wreaths labeled “North” and “South.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-04-28