Puck Christmas 1903
In a dining room, a man sits at a table eating, a woman has opened a door, and three men stand in the doorway, singing Christmas carols.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-12-02
Your TR Source
Caroling
The tariff “wait”
On a winter’s night a small figure labeled “Consumer” sings a Christmas carol at the bottom of the steps to a large federal building. Standing on the steps, a large, bloated man labeled “Special Privilege,” along with Joseph Gurney Cannon, J. S. Sherman, and others, present a formidable barrier to the sad and complaint-filled tidings of the meek caroler. The carol begins, “Confound you, merry gentlemen! Will nothing you dismay? Won’t you revise the tariff until the Judgment Day?”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1908-12-23
The carol of the “waits”
A group of office seekers labeled “McLean, Pulitzer, Dorsheimer, Blackburn, McLaughlin, Hill, [and] Dana” sing Christmas carols outside the “White House” where President Cleveland is visible through a window. Their carol goes: “God rest you, merry gentlemen, / May nothing you dismay; / Remember us poor spoilsmen left / This blessed Christmas Day. / Since Christmas comes but once a year, / Oh, let us share your Christmas cheer, / And chuck one little office here / On Christmas Day in the A. M.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-12-23
Creator(s)
“God rest you, merry gentleman, let nothing you dismay”
Theodore Roosevelt stands at an open window, greeting a group of men singing Christmas carols. The carolers are John D. Rockefeller, Joseph Benson Foraker, Henry H. Rogers, Edward Henry Harriman, David J. Brewer, and James Roscoe Day.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1907-12-25