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A photograph of Emily Tyler Carow, sister of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, washing one of dogs in a portable wash tub while her maid Georgette checks another dog for fleas at her home in Porto Maurizio, Italy.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
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Vignettes illustrate the comforts of domestic life at home, with the central scene showing a man bathing in a bathtub.
“After Vacation” is typical of the non-political genre cartoons, collections of themed gags that by 1905 appeared roughly once a month in Puck magazine. They provide to later readers superb diaries of everyday life that might otherwise be lost to history.
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.”
As habitual opponents of President Roosevelt among political cartooning’s ranks drew summations of the controversies, enemies, and issues of the administration during its last weeks, so did supporters. Their cartoons similarly provide future researchers with virtual checklists of the disputes and rivalries that often underpinned the notable news headlines.
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!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-03