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Uncle Sam sits in a chair smoking a pipe as a man labeled “California” and “States Rights” pleads with him. On a map of the United States in the background, an explosion appears over California; and newspapers in the foreground display headlines like “President’s Message Stirs Up Storm in San Francisco” and “California Dissatisfied.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-10
President Roosevelt plays a fife as Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman beat on “House” and “Senate” drums respectively. William Loeb walks behind them with a “railroad rate bill” flag that uses a “big stick” and pitchfork as a flag pole. They are dressed in colonial attire, in a recreation of the famous painting The Spirit of ’76 by Archibald Willard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-21
President Roosevelt carries “bear skins” on his shoulders as he looks at Secretary of War William H. Taft sitting on thee lid of a “presidential duties” pot. Caption: President Pro-Tem Taft—”I beg to report that the lid is still on.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-09
A man holds five playing cards with faces of American politicians on them: Missouri Governor Joseph Wingate Folk, Wisconsin Governor Robert M. La Follette, President Roosevelt, Secretary of State John Hay, and Illinois Governor Charles Samuel Deneen.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-30
President Roosevelt holds an “itinerary” and a gun as he walks toward the “happy hunting grounds.” The itinerary says, “Monday: leave Washington; Tuesday: speech at Louisville, stop at St. Louis; Wednesday: stop in Indian Territory, speech at Sherman, Texas, and at Dallas; Thursday: at Waco and Austin, arrive at Antonio; Friday: Rough Riders reunion at San Antonio; Saturday: speech at Ft. Worth, leave Ft. Worth for several weeks’ hunting in Texas and Colorado.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-04
Although appointments in the American consular service are not supposed to be announced until March, this newspaper article reports that someone has blundered in the matter of discussing John Lewis Griffiths’s selection for the consul generalship in Berlin, Germany.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-04