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Trying to get everything cleaned up before going on his vacation

Trying to get everything cleaned up before going on his vacation

President Roosevelt cleans Joseph Pulitzer in a “reform” washtub. Around Roosevelt is a basket of “more rascals.” There is also a globe, “Congressional rascals,” Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, and three newspapers–“N. Y. World,” “Indianapolis News,” and “disreputable journalism.” In the back are men hanging on the clothesline: Edward Henry Harriman, “trusts,” “Post Office rascal,” “lumber rascal,” “coal rascal,” and “political rascal.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-18

Caught in a shower

Caught in a shower

An intoxicated man, fully dressed, sits in a bathtub with the shower raining water down upon him. In his drunken state he has mistaken the bathtub for a motorboat. A seltzer bottle and an overturned bottle of liquor are on the floor at the end of the bathtub. Visible through an open door is a beach with dock and a sailboat offshore. Caption: “Thasser way with these darn motor-boats! Go back on yer just the worsh time! Like as not, be stuck in the rain here all day!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-09-03

Creator(s)

Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933