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President Roosevelt sits at a table with members of his cabinet. He gestures at Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton. Beside Morton is a newspaper with the headline: “A.T. & S.F. R.R.’s Secret Rebates—Paul Morton Traffic Mangr.” There is also a “suit of armor formerly worn by Sec’y Morton” with a locomotive engine for a helmet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-03
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks as Don Quixote stands with shield and lance next to a well on which stands a suit of armor labeled “Indiana Organization.” To the right of Fairbanks, in the background, is a hobby horse. The full moon above shows the face of President Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: The flower of Indiana knighthood keeping watch over his boiler-plate.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-06-14
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs interviews a number of naval officers on some alleged defects in the construction of several battleships now being built. Chief among these concerns are the questions of the placement of the armor belt, the positions of the guns, and the design of the hoists to provide the turrets with ammunition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-21
Otto von Bismarck and William E. Gladstone stand on a “Political Stage.” Bismarck is wearing a suit of armor and Gladstone has an axe hanging from a rope around his neck. There are bouquets of flowers for each on the stage from their respective German and English “admirers.” Caption: It seems that those popular stars, the “Iron Chancellor” and the “Grand Old Man,” will have to respond to another encore.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-02-20
Print shows diminutive gladiators labeled “Jones,” “J.D. Sayers” with large sword labeled “State Anti-Trust Laws,” “Bryan” with large sword labeled “Demagogism,” “Hearst,” “Pingree,” “Hogg of Texas” with sword labeled “State Law,” Theodore Roosevelt with sword labeled “Roosevelt,” and “Alger,” and also Joseph Pulitzer. A crowd in the background carries banners that state “Down with Trusts” and “Down with Dept. Stores.” They are struggling against a large gladiator wearing armor labeled “Trusts, Power to Undersell Competitors, Vested Rights, Right to Buy and Sell, Natural Right of Association, Business Progress, Steady Work, [and] Payment of Good Wages.” The gladiator is carrying a shield labeled “Constitution of the U.S.” and a sword labeled “Low Prices.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-07-26
New York political bosses Thomas Collier Platt and Richard Croker appear as Roman centurions, wearing armor and carrying swords labeled “Bossism.” They are daintily shaking hands with the New York state capitol building labeled “Albany” in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-11-16
Two men and Carl Schurz, holding hands and labeled “C. & H.”, sit on James Gillespie Blaine who is lying on the ground wearing armor.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-26
President Taft, wearing a suit of armor, holds a standard labeled “Campaign of the Full Dinner Pail.” A squire labeled “Sherman” is placing the helmet with plume labeled “W.H. Taft” over his head. Another squire labeled “Penrose” is drawing back the opening of the tent through which Taft can enter the fray.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-16