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President Roosevelt holds his big stick as he watched a blindfolded Benjamin B. Odell stand on the gangplank. Timothy L. Woodruff puts up his hand and says, “Give him time!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-23
Photograph of staff trapping and blindfolding a bighorn sheep during a roundup in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1960-02-18
Photograph of a trapped bighorn sheep about to be blindfolded by staff during a roundup in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1960-01-16
A Republican elephant holds out a dish of beans, including one marked “vice presidency,” to several blindfolded men, including Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Illinois Representative Robert R. Hitt, and Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-15
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, in a burglar’s mask, uses an “ambition” stick attempting to pry open the entrance to the “Tomb of Political Hopes,” which he believes to be the White House. He has “plans” in his top hat as well as a bag labeled “M. Hanna. White House.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06