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President Roosevelt holds a candle as he steps outside in the darkness dressed in his pajamas and slippers. The outline of two people can be seen in the distance along with a small circle labeled “3rd term.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-30
Annie L. Taylor, a “farmer girl,” sends Theodore Roosevelt bayberry candles she made. She stood near him during his speech at the Suffolk County, New York, fair wherein he praised farmers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna holds a recently blown out candle and tiptoes away from a “1904 presidential boom” crib as President Roosevelt, who is in a picture frame, looks on. A baby bottle has spilled on the floor with the label of “newspaperiety.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-22
President Roosevelt wears a cape and holds a mirror and a candle. In front of him is a “muckrake.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-13
A group of legislators meet at night, but are threatened by the specter of President Roosevelt, wielding his “Big Stick.” Caption: Will it fall? …
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-1907
A female figure labeled “Europe” sleeps among boxes of “Munitions of War [and] Ammunition,” large shells, and a barrel of “Powder” with a candle labeled “Ambition” as a burning fuse. She is dreaming about “The Czar’s Proposal for a Universal Peace Congress.” Her dream shows an angel holding up a banner labeled “Millennium” around which are dancing the symbolic representations of several countries. Among them are a fox, a turkey wearing a fez, a double-headed eagle labeled “Austria,” a cock labeled “France,” an eagle labeled “Germany,” the British Lion, the Russian Bear labeled “Russia,” a fox labeled “Italy,” a cat labeled “Spain,” and a dragon labeled “China.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-05
Print shows Cyrus W. Field and Jay Gould as parts of a candle holder labeled “Wall Street” with a candle burning the flame of “Speculation.” The candle draws moths with their savings to the light, and as the moths get too close to the flame, they die and drop their savings into the “Wall Street” candle holder.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-04-26
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913