Carriages and carts

A seat in the third carriage has been reserved for John Campbell Greenway.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1905-10-24

Vice President Roosevelt rides in a carriage saluting the camera. The clipping is captioned, “Dedication of the Pan-American Exposition. Vice-President Roosevelt Saluting the Crowds on Main Street.”

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1901

Photograph showing a man in a horse drawn carriage in a driveway next to President Roosevelt’s house, Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-09-14

Photograph of a man on a horse carriage riding on a dirt road in the woods at President Roosevelt’s home, Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-09-14

Print shows a “Before” and “After” cartoon. In the “Before” scene, the “Democratic Donkey” is piled high with bags of “Dividends, Salaries, Profits, [and] Rents” that are tied on with a ribbon labeled “Income Taxes,” standing outside the “U.S. Supreme Court” where the Supreme Court justices are offering a two-wheeled cart for the donkey to use to carry the load. In the “After” scene, the “Democratic Donkey” is harnessed to the cart labeled “Supreme Court Decision on Income Tax,” which is overloaded with bags of “Dividends, Salaries, Profits” still bound with a ribbon labeled “Income Taxes.” “Rents” which are “(Exempt)” have fallen to the ground. The way the load is positioned in the cart raises the donkey off the ground. It remarks, “What shall I do now – I’m worse off than ever!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-05-01

President McKinley stands on the roadside near a large rock labeled “Unsettled Tariff Question.” Vice President Hobart and members of McKinley’s cabinet attempt to clear the roadway by removing another large rock labeled “Unsound Financial System.” Waiting behind them on the road “To Prosperity” is Uncle Sam sitting on a large wagon filled with “U.S. Commercial Interests.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-03-31

A mule and the wreckage of a wagon appear by the side of railroad tracks and an old man labeled “Silverite” hangs from a sign that states, “Danger! Look Out for Sound Money Locomotive.” A train rumbles off into the background with the caboose labeled “Sound Money Sentiment.” Caption: A pictorial prophecy for election day, November 3rd, 1896.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-07-15

A wagon labeled “Free Silver” is filled with a group of “free silver” supporters identified as “Tillman, Boies, Sheehan, Bland, Blackburn, Bryan, Sewall, Pattison, Sibley, Jones, Geo. Fred Williams, Peffer, [and] Altgeld.” Tillman holds a pitchfork with flag labeled “Repudiation” and Altgeld holds a burning torch. The wagon had been harnessed to a mule wearing a halter labeled “Democracy.” It has broken loose and is gathering speed as it rolls backwards down a hill. Caption: Silver Lunatics–Hip, hip, hurrah! Just see how much faster we are going since we cut loose!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-08-12

Uncle Sam opens the “Protection Gate” at the “U.S. Custom House” where a sign states “Reduction of Tolls from 50 to 38 Percent. Wool, Lumber, Twine, and Fresh Fish, Free!!” The Roman god Mercury is driving a wagon labeled “Commerce,” pulled by horses labeled “Prosperity” and “Business Revival,” and loaded with such commodities as “Leather, Flour, Jute, Coal, Cotton, Steel, [and] Wool,” through the gate. Caption: Uncle Sam (to the genius of Commerce)–Those tolls ain’t as low as we want ’em; but they’re the best we can do at present. Now let business go on!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-08-29

Two smug, well-dressed men, one labeled “Exporter” and the other labeled “Farmer,” ride in a fine carriage driven by the Roman god Mercury, his cape labeled “Commerce,” and drawn by two horses labeled “Manufacturing” and “Agriculture.” They ride past a broken carriage that crashed on a log labeled “Dingley Tariff.” The driver labeled “Importer” and the horse labeled “Import Business” sit on the ground next to the “Dingley Tariff” roadblock.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-02-01

A gigantic man and a gigantic woman ride bicycles on a dirt road. They are road hogs, forcing other forms of transportation, mainly diminutive horse-drawn carriages, off the road.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-05-20

Uncle Sam helps four little girls labeled “Philippines, Ladrones, Porto Rico, [and] Cuba” onto a wagon filled with many other young children, including “Hawaii.” Two horses harnessed to the wagon are labeled “Liberty” and “Union.” An old man, wearing a hat labeled “Monroe Doctrine,” sits on a log nearby and asks Sam if the wagon isn’t getting too full.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-09-28

President William McKinley is at the reins of a carriage labeled “Administration” carrying Uncle Sam and Columbia. Three men labeled “Hanna, Lodge, [and] Dingley” are having difficulty harnessing two unruly horses labeled “Expansion” and “Protection” to the carriage.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-11-09

Eight stagecoaches stand in a procession, each jammed with passengers. Riding in the first coach, labeled “Republican Harmony Coach,” are Chester Alan Arthur, Roscoe Conkling, James Gillespie Blaine, John Alexander Logan, Ulysses S. Grant, J. D. Cameron, George William Curtis, John Sherman, John F. Miller(?) and an unidentified man. Riding in the second coach, labeled “Dem. Love Feast Coach” and “One Republican thrown in to please Mr. Dana,” are Charles A. Dana, Benjamin F. Butler, Edward Cooper, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Edson, Samuel J. Tilden, John Kelly, and Hubert O. Thompson. Riding in the third coach, labeled “Heavy Hack,” are Cardinal John McCloskey, Robert Green Ingersoll, “Jacobs, Potter, Storrs,” Howard Crosby, Henry Ward Beecher, and Theodore Tilton. Riding in the fourth coach, labeled “Monopoly,” are William H. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, Jay Gould, and a box labeled Henry Clay. Riding in the fifth coach, labeled “Thespis,” are Lester Wallack, Rose Coghlan, Marie Geistinger, “T.P., J.E. Pearson, Levy,” Dion Boucicault, Edward Harrigan, and Tony Hart. The sixth coach is labeled “Homeopathy”; the seventh coach is labeled “Allopathy”; and the eighth coach is labeled “The Bruiser.” The horses pulling this last coach wear boxing gloves. Caption: [If this takes, we will have another one next year.]

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-06-13

Print shows a vignette cartoon with a carriage at center in which Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and William H. Vanderbilt are riding with large money bags; the wheels are labeled “Corporations” and “Monopoly.” The carriage is driven by an eagle dressed like Uncle Sam wearing a top hat labeled “1882” and carrying a whip labeled “Revenue Tariff.” The carriage is pulled by an “Underpaid Workman,” a “Starving Laborer,” a “War Widow,” a “Sewing Girl,” an “Old Merchant,” a “Poor Clerk,” and a “Cripple,”among others, with ropes labeled “Tax.” The surrounding vignettes show scenes of corruption, misfortune, presidential office seekers, Valley Forge, and “Charitable Institutions for the poor and unfortunate” from “Maine” to “California” showing buildings labeled “Poor House” and “Jail.” Featured in these vignettes are such figures as Chester Alan Arthur, George M. Robeson, Samuel J. Tilden, Roscoe Conkling, John Kelly, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin F. Butler, and Joseph W. Keifer, as well as “Honest Labor, Patriotism, [and] Integrity.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

A woman labeled “Legitimate Business” cracks a whip that spells “Crash.” She is driving a two-wheeled cart drawn by two horses with a large brush labeled “No Over-Certification Clearing House” attached, sweeping Wall Street clean of men labeled “Stock Jobber” and “Stock Gambler.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-05-21

Uncle Sam and Dame Democracy ride in a horse-drawn carriage through a forest where 21 or 22 faces of presidential hopefuls can be seen in the trees, rocks, and grasses, and have spooked the horses at the approach to a bridge. Samuel J. Tilden, not a candidate in 1884, is the only person depicted full-length.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-05-28

Print shows John Kelly driving a wagon labeled “Tammany” overloaded with rowdy delegates to the New York state convention in Syracuse. The wagon is being pulled by the Tammany tiger. Several men are drinking alcoholic beverages, while one man plays a harp.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-08-23

Print shows a coach labeled “Rural Democracy” filled with “Rural Regulars” carrying their farm tools, racing “To the State Convention”, driven by Samuel J. Tilden, with John Kelly representing “Tammany Hall” and John Fox representing “Irving Hall” hitching a ride, sitting on the rear step. The driver looks annoyed.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1881-09-14

Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed Switzerland and Scotland. He describes a carriage ride from Geneva to Chamonix. They ascended a mountain on mules to visit the Mer de Glace, a glacier on Mont Blanc. Roosevelt has been collecting stamps from the countries he has visited.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1869-11-11