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Theodore Roosevelt wonders how much whiskey or brandy he should take for medicinal purposes. He also supposes that Edgar Alexander Mearns will have “small mammal traps and the like.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-20
President Roosevelt walks through a forest and is about to step on a “rate bill” animal trap. “The Senate” watches from behind the trees. Caption: Senator Rayner—”But I do say, and I say it again with the greatest respect and reverence for the President, and that the President is so constituted that he cannot look at a trap without fooling with the spring!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-15
President Roosevelt leaves the White House with a gun and a “Senatorial game bag.” He encounters a number of animal traps: “railway rate trap,” “Panama trap,” “federal ins. trap,” “Santo Domingo trap,” “Venezuela trap,” “German tariff trap,” “state interference trap,” and “campaign expenses trap.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-03
Cipriano Castro, President of Venezuela, hides behind a large rock, hoping that the large claw-type animal trap labeled “Monroe Doctrine” he set will prove effective in preventing the British Lion, a cat labeled “Italy” with the face of Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, and a boar labeled “Germany” with the face of William II, Emperor of Germany, from coming ashore to demand payment of international debts.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-02-11
Uncle Sam holds a lantern labeled “Prudence” in one hand and holds onto John Bull with the other, leading Austria, Japan, France, and Germany through a field of traps labeled “Casus Belli” in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt has had Edgar Alexander Mearns detailed from the army and under the direction of Charles D. Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution. Larger animals on the expedition will be shot by Theodore or Kermit Roosevelt. Roosevelt is interested in adding reptiles and freshwater fish to the specimens collected. The curing and transportation of the specimens will be paid for by the Smithsonian.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-03
David B. Hill is caught in a large claw-type animal trap labeled “Nomination for N.Y. Governorship.” A sign posted next to the trap states, “This trap was set by David B. Hill to catch an Anti-Snapper.” Two groups of men are standing to the right and left. Among them are Charles S. Fairchild, Carl Schurz, Edward M. Shepard, William R. Grace, and Oswald Ottendorfer. They are laughing at him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-10-17
At top, Puck holds a paper that states “The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – Here modern science, aided by Vivisection, is gradually conquering and eradicating human disease” with a view of the Institute in the background. At bottom is a frontier scene with a man trapping small animals for their furs which hang at a cabin in the background. Caption: One dedicated to vanity; the other to science. Which better justifies the killing of animals?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-03-14
At top left a woman wearing feathers and fur stands near a dead bird and a fox caught in a trap. At top right a hunter has shot a deer. The bottom right shows a laboratory scene with Alexis Carrel and Jacques Loeb dissecting an animal in a laboratory. The bottom left shows Dr. Simon Flexner keeping a bedside vigil for a sick child.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-01-24
Viscount Wolseley attempts to glue the tail labeled “Prestige” onto a weeping British Lion with the aid of British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone who is holding a glue pot labeled “Berber Expedition.” A large, bloody animal trap labeled “Khartoum Trap” and “El Mahdi Patent” is in the foreground.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-02-18
Print shows at center, a “Profits” driven retail salesman who lets his merchandise go “Cheap” and at a “Bargain” through an “Easy Payments” plan depicted in the jaws of a trap. An “Agreement”is also depicted in the jaws of a trap, that states “Goods forfeited if instalment [sic] not paid when due”. Vignettes surrounding the central figure show such merchandise as chairs, carpets, beds, “the Baby-Carriage”, a stove, sewing machine, and the dinner table, being “carried off” for failure to pay on time.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-09-12
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
A large ape with a human face wears a sheep skin as a disguise. Text on the side of the skin states “High Protection and Prosperity for American Labor and Capital.” The ape is wearing a hat labeled “Graftocracy” and its left foot is caught in a bear trap labeled “Lobby Exposure.” It walks with the aid of a staff through a landscape that is both wilderness and dotted with factories. Caption: The Brute with Brains – This disguise doesn’t seem to fool them the way it used to.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-10