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In the interior of a large room where the over-sized mantle is labeled “Vanderbilt,” many of the decorations are for sale, as well as clothing displayed on lifeless figures. All items have price tags with value indicated. (The Vanderbilt ball was held on March 26, 1883, the grandest social event of the season.)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-04-04
Print shows three men: on the left, David B. Hill labeled “Peanut Politics,” at center is Richard Croker wearing a hat labeled “To the Victor Belong the Spoils,” and on the right, William Jennings Bryan labeled “16 to 1.” They are walking together, arm-in-arm.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-12
President Taft struggles to dress the Republican elephant in a dress labeled on one side “Reactionaries” and on the other “Insurgents.” He is unable to bring the two sides together in the back in order to fasten them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03-16
An attractive woman plays billiards surrounded by four dashing men offering her advice on how to approach a bridge shot. Caption: Expert advice on how to handle it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-06
A man and a woman are engaged in a wild modern dance, with the woman flipping upside down, on a dance floor with nearby tables and patrons at a nightclub. In the background are a few bored men. Caption: Blase Gentleman (in background) — Aw, let’s go some place where it’s a bit lively!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-02-07
An outlandishly dressed tour guide at a museum explains an exhibit showing a ticker tape machine to an equally outlandishly dressed couple touring the museum. Caption: Museum Attendant (in 1925) — These instruments, known as stock-tickers, were in use in Wall Street up to the year 1914. They were abandoned when the public got out of the market, and they are now very rare.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-01-07
Two well dressed men wearing top hats admire a beautiful young woman wearing a fur-trimmed red shawl and a hat with a small pine bough attached. Includes a lengthy notice “from Puck’s new management to Puck’s old friends!” about planned improvements for the future of the magazine.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-01-14
A man labeled “Republican War Record” stands in a pond labeled “Republican Corruption Water,” yelling to an Irishman wearing a hat labeled “Democracy,” gathering up the Republican’s clothing labeled “Tariff Reform, Free Canal, [and] Reduction Tax,” and a top hat labeled “Civil Service Reform” which he has placed on top of his own hat. His own tattered clothes are patched with “Ignorance, Poverty, Stupidity, Bourbonism, [and] Secession Record.” Caption: Republican “Hey, what can I do without them?” Democracy “What have you done with them – only cast them off!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-02
Women, interspersed among flowers, are engaged in various activities, such as social work, dancing, attending the theater, and as brides. The accompanying verse begins with the stanza, “O city flowers, what kin are you / To country children of sun and dew? / Hot-house-bred wantons, glad to be sold / To bloom and be sweet for Sin and Gold!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-01-06
Print shows a shabbily dressed man labeled “Intemperate Drunkard” on the left, a well-dressed man labeled “True Temperance” drinking a mug of beer at center, and a man labeled “Intemperate Teetotaler,” wearing formal dress, on the right. Caption: The Temperate Man “I want nothing to do with either of you!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-04-19
A beauty contest is underway where “First Prize” is the “Presidency.” The presidential candidates, all dressed as women, are sitting on raised platforms around which men have gathered to admire their beauty. Two men in the lower left appear to be voting for number “1. The Empire State Enslaver.” Among those in the running are “2. The same Old Widow from Beanville, 3. The Mulligan Masher from Maine [holding fan labeled] J. Blaine, 4. The Delaware Darling, 5. The Indiana Dumpling [holding fan labeled] J. E. MDonald, 6. The Homespun Houri of Ohio, 7. The Illinois Pet, 10. Utica Immortelle, 11. The Buffalo Girl, 12. The Indiana ‘Sun-Flower’ [with ribbon labeled] W. S. Holman, 13. The Nation’s Ex-Favorite [holding fan labeled] U.S.G., 14. The Pension Ring Pocahontas [with fan labeled] Logan, 15. The Centennial Spinster Ex-Champion de jure, 16. The Free Trade Fairy [with fan labeled] Hewitt, 17. The Ohio Water Lily Ex-Champion de facto, 18. The Pearl of Protection [with fan labeled] Randall, The Sherman Sisters 19. The Tecumseh Twin, 20. The Treasury Twin, 21. The Virtuous Vermonter [with fan labeled] Edmund, [and] 22. The Fat Fairy.” Among those depicted are Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin F. Butler, James G. Blaine, Thomas Bayard, Joseph E. McDonald, Allen G. Thurman, Robert Todd Lincoln, Roscoe Conkling, Grover Cleveland, William Steele Holman, Ulysses S. Grant, John Logan, Samuel J. Tilden, Abram S. Hewitt, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel J. Randall, William T. Sherman, John Sherman, George F. Edmunds, and David Davis.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-01-23
Whitelaw Reid, dressed as a dandy, turns away from a young woman labeled “N. Y. State” who is carrying a bucket labeled “Reform Milk” and headed in a direction indicated by a sign “To Reform.” He is turning down a marriage proposal before it has been offered. Caption: “I cannot marry you, my pretty maid!” / “Nobody axed you, sir!” she said.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-12-03
John Kelly, dressed as an old woman street vendor, sits at “Mrs. J. Kelly Political Fruit Stand,” selling “N.Y. Patronage Lemonade.” He has tossed to the gutter a lemon labeled “Edson” that shows the face of former Mayor of New York City, Franklin Edson. Whitelaw Reid leans around a corner at the end of the produce stand, where a notice has been pasted on the wall that states “City Hall Theatre. Passion Play. Judas – Edson.” Caption: A lemon that will never more contribute to the patronage bowl.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-12-17
Puck peers behind a curtain to witness Joseph Ferdinand Keppler staging a puppet show labeled “U. S. Senate” showing a confrontation between Jefferson Davis, dressed as a woman, and General Sherman. Another puppet labeled “Vance” sits behind the curtain with an unidentified puppet, possibly William Mahone. Caption: Grand reproduction of the Rebellion, and terrific combat between General Sherman and Jeff Davis!! Joe Hawley, manager.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-01-21
Print shows Chester A. Arthur dressed as a dandy, walking on a sidewalk with a young woman labeled “Republican Party” who is carrying a small dog labeled “Protection.” Standing behind them, on the sidewalk, is Roscoe Conkling, also dressed as a dandy, with a medallion with the number “306” (a reference to the number of delegates who voted for U.S. Grant at the Republican Convention), in the background is the U.S. Capitol labeled “Congressional Club House”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-09-26
Three well-dressed women with large bonnets discuss the fare on a street railroad while the conductor discreetly turns away.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-01-12
Four elderly men and two elderly women watch a fashionably dressed young woman as she walks down the sidewalk.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-10-15
A group of men at a football game is paying closer attention to exposure of a fashionably dressed young woman’s legs as she climbs the steep steps in a grandstand.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-11-12
On the left, a beautiful young woman wearing a beach robe enters a bathhouse to change. On the right, she emerges from the bathhouse fashionably dressed in an outfit that may be more revealing than her beach clothing, and carrying a parasol.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-10
A beautiful young woman poses for a group of wide-eyed male photographers. Caption: But remember, there is some Great Scenery around Broadway and Forty-Second Street in the Summer time.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-08-13