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A policewoman observes a crowd of women outside a store advertising a “Sacrifice Sale of Millinery.” She is torn by her obligation to her duties as a police officer and her desire to take advantage of the sale. Caption: She will never be a success on some “fixed posts.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-04-16
A woman dancer, wearing a bright yellow dress and long feathers in her hair, kicks a tambourine that also appears to have feathers or streamers attached to it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-05-21
Pair of gold suspender clips with the initials “TR” engraved on one side and “1912” on the other. The clips were supposedly given to Theodore Roosevelt as a gift.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1912
A dastardly figure peers from behind a bush in the background, as a matronly woman pushes a young woman, looking starry-eyed and carrying a suitcase bursting with cash and stocks, out the front door, in response to a note which shows a pink handprint and states “Put ze girl and ze money on ze doorstep or I will slap you on ze wrist. Ze Pink Hand.”
L. M. Glackens’s cartoon presumably is a cartoon reference to a crime wave that existed throughout America cities starting in the 1890s and having a peak of activity in 1908 — extortion of innocent people through letters signed by a Black Hand. The activity was most active in the Italian immigrant enclaves of New York City, Chicago, and coal-mining regions of northern Pennsylvania. That, as well as internal evidence of the notes and confessions of blackmailers, confirmed the Southern Italian component of the movement.
Many women in the “Mrs. P. J. Gilligan” bar smoke and drink at their leisure. Caption: For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public.
Puck asserts in putative humor that there is a fine line between women smoking cigarettes in public, and the panoply of delights in a man’s saloon — heavy drinking, gambling, and ignoring the please of children to return home.
Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Charles W. Fairbanks, and Leslie M. Shaw all wear dresses for a ball. Roosevelt has selected Taft as the “best belle of the ball” – the best candidate for the Republican Party in the 1908 presidential election.
If his physical characteristics had not provided fodder for cartoonists, William H. Taft might have been lost to history. That is strictly not true, of course; his impressive resume, important achievements in the Roosevelt Administration, and — up to the date of this cartoon by L. M. Glackens — the favor of the president assured his presence in cartoons. After that, caricaturists were merely having fun at his expanse.
An attractive young woman stylishly dressed in the latest fashion walks in the snow, with two men walking behind her. Caption: Her Brother — Now I know what became of my new bath-robe.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-01-17
A woman wearing a large hat stands next to a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat. Caption: He — You smashed two cigars in my inside pocket just then! / She — That’s nothing! You bent a whole package of cigarettes in my corsage!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt about one of the help, Sophie, mixing up his clothes with Elliot’s and Father’s and the food they have been eating. Roosevelt went to a dinner and a picnic and some other friends came over and sang.
1876-05-14