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A large man carrying golf clubs and a small piece of luggage, and holding goggles and a coat, with the railroad station in the background, asks who won the election. A diminutive boy is selling newspapers at his feet. Caption: The returned “Good Citizen” — Well, who was elected?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-11-08
Theodore Roosevelt tells Progressive National Committee Member Pearl Wight that he agrees that the American people are apathetic, especially on the issue of American interest and honor in Mexico, making them more to blame than President Wilson and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan for the situation. Roosevelt recalls a speech by former Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-13
President Roosevelt, Frank Swett Black, New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell, and New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt all call for donations. Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou holds a “cash contributions wanted!!!” flag. They call down from the “Republican breastworks” toward “General Apathy.” A number of men surround the general and lie on the ground.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-26
A “Democracy” woman is chained to “factional leadership” while a scaled and monstrous “apathy” approaches from below. Caption: Wanted, a Perseus! There she stands, poor soul,/Watching the red-gorged monster’s slow advance—/While ever he nearer and nearer creeps/And the gods laugh and the deliverer sleeps!
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-15
Benjamin F. Butler is a “Recruiting-Sergeant” holding a paper that states “Join the Butler Army OH! – Victory and Spoils in 1884.” He is appealing to a man sitting on a chair, holding a “Southern Vote” in his hands. Caption: The Unrecruited South – “Stranger, I guess you’ll have to count me out of this.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-07-18
On the left, pedestrians and people in and on top of buildings look with amazement at an airplane flying over a city. On the right, citizens no longer take notice of all the airplanes crowding the sky above the city. Caption: As it was a year or two ago / As it may be a year or two from now.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-08-23