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Four men in a basket labeled “The Church” of a hot-air balloon labeled “Religion without Superstition” throw out sandbags labeled “No Museum, Blue Laws, Bigotry, [and] No Sunday Recreations” that are used for ballast, enabling them to soar higher, above dark clouds labeled “Ignorance” and “Superstition.” Caption: The more rubbish they throw out, the higher they can go.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-07-17
President Roosevelt, in the shape of a lion, holds Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell in his mouth. William Jennings Bryan runs away with a “saucy letter” spear in his left hand. In the background is an “heirship” balloon that has been poked.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09
William A. Peffer grabs for the ropes of a hot air balloon labeled “Populism” that has burst in two places while high above the Washington, D.C., area.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-10-10
A series of 12 panels relate a story about a dragon that is terrorizing a kingdom. The king issues a “proclamation” offering half his kingdom and his daughter’s hand in marriage to any of his knights who can rid the kingdom of the menacing dragon. Several knights do battle with the dragon, but all are killed. Then a man arrives in town who is an “æronaut” and has a large silk bag with him. He requests permission from the king to confront the dragon. The king laughs and considers him a fool, but gives his permission. The “æronaut” tricks the dragon into putting its head in the silk bag, which the man then ties around the dragon’s neck. In a rage, the dragon fills the bag with hot air and floats away from the kingdom. The man and the princess are married and he rules over his half of the kingdom for many years.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-12-14
An oversized man labeled “Promoter” sits atop a ticker tape machine, holding a large butterfly net into which a throng of investors fly. Some labeled “Broker, Merchant, [and] Banker” are tossing money in exchange for balloons labeled “Sash and Door Combine Stock, American Beet Sugar Co., Distillery and Warehouse Co. Stock, American Caramel Co., Auto-Truck Co. Stock, Print Cloth pool Stock, Chicago Milk Co., Knit Goods Co. Stock, [and] International Silver Co.” One balloon labeled “Inflated Industrial” has burst. Caption: With reference to these large combinations of capital which are now forming, my own judgment is that the danger is not so much to the community at large as it is to the people who are induced to put their money into the purchase of the stock.–Attorney-General Griggs.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-26
William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers, looking worried, fly in a hot air balloon labeled “Labor Vote.” They are caught in an electrical storm with lightning labeled “Revolt” and are being driven by winds to an uncertain fate.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-08-26
A hand labeled “Collections” holds a pin, about to pop a big red balloon labeled “Big Business Orders.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-07-31