In time of peace, prepare for vacation
Subject(s): Interpersonal relations, Photograph albums
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At center, a young man sits with his mannequin spouse labeled “Farmer’s Daughter,” looking at pictures in the “Family Album.” Surrounding vignettes show the man in training for the annual city-dweller’s summer vacation to the country. Caption: The wise young man goes in training now.
Comments and Context
With the advent of spring, Puck takes an early vacation from cartoons about railroad rates, muckrakers, and insurance scandals (the momentous New York State investigations and report were winding up at this time) with a humor-only, no-politics genre cartoons about the vicissitudes of an urbanite’s Summer retreat to rural resorts.
Cartoonists had so much fun with mosquitos and hard mattresses and noisy morning birds and ancient horsehair sofas, it seems a wonder that any vacationers ventured to distant farmlands and lake regions. But they did; and cartoonists evident did too, even if for research.
An inside joke in Ehrhart’s central drawing is a living-room copy of the Samantha at Saratoga, one of the most popular novels of the era. The book by Marietta Holley, originally published in 1887, rivaled the sales of those by Mark Twain and Bill Nye. It was famously illustrated by the Puck alumnus, Ehrhart’s former co-worker, Frederick Burr Opper.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1906-05-02
Creator(s)
Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937
Period
U.S. President – 2nd Term (March 1905-February 1909)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Page Count
1
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
In time of peace, prepare for vacation. [May 2, 1906]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o278534. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937. In time of peace, prepare for vacation. [2 May. 1906]. Image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. August 3, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o278534.
APA:
Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937., [1906, May 2]. In time of peace, prepare for vacation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o278534.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. August 3, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
APA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
