Boulders

William H. Taft attempts to push a rock labeled “Ohio” with Senators Charles Dick and Joseph Benson Foraker sitting on top of it through the White House gates as he sweats profusely. President Roosevelt looks on with a bomb labeled “popular policies” in his right hand. Caption: The president– “Don’t work so hard, Bill! We can blow it up with this stuff in my hand.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-20

George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, appears as Sisyphus rolling a large boulder labeled “Majority for Roosevelt” up a steep hill.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-09-14

Photograph of park staff removing a large fallen boulder that rolled on to the scenic loop drive in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1968-02

Creator(s)

National Park Service; Wintch, Michael Ott, 1937-

Photograph of a wooden informational sign entitled “Edge of a Glacier,” which describes modern evidence of an ancient glacier in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1961-04

Creator(s)

National Park Service; Maeder, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1926-2001

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

E.C. Kropp Co.

Language

English

Period

Unknown

A man labeled “Tax-payer” has fallen on steps labeled “Congress.” He has a large boulder labeled “War Taxes on Iron on Sugar on Cloth Salt Leather [and] Linens” strapped to his back. On the steps is a small stone labeled “Tax Taken Off Patent Medicines, Perfumery, etc.” In the room at the top of the steps, many hands dip into a bowl of coins labeled “River & Harbor Bill.” Caption: “He asked for bread, and they gave him a stone!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-08-09

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896