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Three Theodore Roosevelts make up a fife and drum corps. Pince-nez and teeth substitute for the stars on the American flag. The caption at the bottom reads, “‘Teddy Doodle’ The Spirit of ’08.” This cartoon is signed, “Keppler, with apologies.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1907-05-15
Three members of a fife and drum corp marching into battle all have the face and figure of Theodore Roosevelt.
“The Spirit of ’76” (sometimes called “Yankee Doodle”) is a painting by Archibald MacNeal Willard (1836-1918), an Ohio artist who produced few other works of fame or distinction in his career.
In the interior of a cathedral filled to capacity, an enormous “$” is illuminated in the place of a rose window.
Anticipating Art Young’s famous center-spread cartoon in Puck a few years later (“Holy Trinity,” scoring New York’s Episcopal Church for its opulence even as it was a slumlord of tenements), this Carl Hassmann cartoon aims its scatter-shot at American culture and organized religion in general.