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Uncle Sam, as a matador, wipes the blood off his sword after dispatching a bull labeled “Beef Trust” in a bullring with a portly man labeled “Monopoly” anxiously leaning over the wall.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-02-22
Advertisement for Australian horse trainer O. B. Milburn’s appearance during the upcoming Great Bull Fight in Akron, Ohio. Milburn is known for taming “the most wicked, savage, man-eating stallions or mad bulls.” Additionally, S. J. Sidney will jump a horse into a lake. There is also a gentlemen’s bicycle race.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-07
President Roosevelt uses a “stuffed, very stuffed club” to fight a “trust” bull with the legs of two men in suits. Uncle Sam looks on and says, “Fake!” Caption: Theodore the toreador—I hope the prevention of cruelty to trusts won’t stop this show.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06
A “trusts” bull chases President Roosevelt—who is dressed in bullfighting attire—away. There is a sign on the wall that reads, “Great bull fight. Senor Roosevelt will kill the bull in four years if elected. Admission: 1 vote.” A caption at the bottom reads, “As it has been fought the last two years.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-10
Black ink cartoon of President Roosevelt dressed as a matador and waving a cape of “My Policies” at a bull representing James Roscoe Day, chancellor of Syracuse University.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1908-03-18
At a bullfight, Theodore Roosevelt is the bull surrounded by picadors and banderilleros labeled “La Follette, Root, Taft, Sherman, Bryan, Watterson, [and] Crane,” and William Barnes, who is unidentified. The men are thrusting lances and banderillas into the bull, while the matador, Woodrow Wilson, waits in the upper right background to finish it off. Caption: When the picadors sufficiently puncture him, the matador will finish him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-21