Cigar bands and labels

Attorney General Moody provides his opinion to President Roosevelt on the question of whether the Secretary of the Treasury has the power to change the design of imported cigar stamps. Moody argues that the statutes give the Secretary the power to make these types of decisions, which are then final and considered acts of the President. Moody advises Roosevelt to ignore the appeal to change Secretary Leslie M. Shaw’s decision.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-28

Vignettes depict the craze for cigar bands and the various ways in which they can be used to celebrate special occasions, such as getting married, the birth of a child, a holiday turkey dinner, on clothing to identify a family, as collectibles, and as a closure for a coffin. Caption: Dedicated to the gent who smokes ’em with the belts on.

comments and context

Comments and Context

As Puck magazine’s color centerspreads were increasingly given over to humorous cartoons, usually vignettes of commentary on a social, not political, issue of the day, the three cartoonists usually handling the assignments were S. D. Ehrhart, L. M. Glackens, and J. S Pughe.