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A man labeled “Labor Union” raises a large club labeled “Boycotting” over his head, about to strike a man labeled “Manufacturer” sitting behind a desk. In the process, he strikes a man labeled “Laborer” sitting on a chair behind him. On the wall in the background are two notices that state “Enforced Idleness for the Manufacturer” and “Enforced Idleness for the Laborer.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-11-25
Uncle Sam is seated at a table in front of “Uncle Sam’s Inter-State Market,” with a businessman labeled “Northern Capital” on the right and an agricultural producer labeled “Southern Goods – Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Whiskey” on the left. Standing before the table are James G. Blaine labeled “Bloody Shirt,” and John Sherman, Whitelaw Reid, and Joseph B. Foraker, who all have long flowing hair and beards like Rip Van Winkle. Blaine is leaning on a rifle labeled “Shot Gun.” Two young African American men are sitting on a bale of cotton and a keg of “Tobacco” in the lower right corner, and in the middle ground African Americans are harvesting cotton. In the background, along the shores of a harbor, is a prosperous city. Caption: Uncle Sam “My fossil friends, the War ended twenty years ago. Have you been sleeping ever since?”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-09-16
A businessman addresses a group of laborers, explaining to them how important tariffs are to their jobs and that if the reform candidate is elected, then the factory would have to close. On the businessman’s return from a trip abroad, customs officials search his luggage, and he rails against tariff duties and the invasion of his personal property. Caption: Around election time at the shop. On his return from a trip abroad.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-01-11
President Taft stands behind a chair on which a diminutive George W. Wickersham is standing. Wickersham is using a stick labeled “Sherman Law” to beat a toy labeled “Monopoly” on the table in front of him. The toy shows a wealthy businessman holding money bags sitting in a bowl. Hanging on the wall is a “Sectional View” of the toy showing that it is weighted at the bottom with “High Protection,” stating “The Reason Why” it does not stay down when Wickersham hits it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-08
A deer hunter labeled “Wickersham” holds a rifle labeled “Sherman Law.” A deer labeled “Restraint of Trade” runs off into the woods while a man labeled “Legitimate Business” holds his leg where Wickersham shot him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-01
A huge red flying creature labeled “Wickersham,” holding a fork with webbing in one hand and papers labeled “Trust, Dissolution, Sherman Law, [and] Disintegration” in the other, descends on fleeing crowds of men on a city street, possibly Wall Street.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-10-18
A jester pours dice in the shape of men and women from a cup labeled “The Rail Roads” onto a topographical map. “Travel number” is written in the lower-right corner.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-14
A resolute Uncle Sam, as a soldier with rifle, stands on a pile of money bags labeled “Financial Interests in South & Central America.” Sleeping on the ground, using the bags as pillows, are men labeled “St. Petersburg, Wall St., Lombard St., Paris Bourse, Berlin, [and] Vienna.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-04-05
The Roman god Mercury wears a hat labeled “Pan-American Union” and is draped in cloth the color of the American and South American flags. He points to a large globe showing “South America” and tells a group of mostly old men who are North American manufacturers that South America is ripe for exploitation. Caption: They jeer and scoff at him now as others jeered and scoffed at Columbus when he told them of a land to the west.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-03-29