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Mars, the Roman god of war, sits on a throne with his arms folded across his chest and a sword resting on his lap. He is illuminated by a ray of light beaming from above. At center a broken olive branch lies on the ground, and on the right a female figure labeled “Peace,” cradling a dove, flees storm clouds, representing Russia and Japan, about to clash, between her and Mars.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-02-24
Postcard showing the forested side of a mountain in the foreground and the peak of another in the background. Clouds fill the space in between the two.
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Two turkeys, one dressed as a Turk standing among smoking bombs and pumpkins, stand beneath clouds that rain axes, bombs, vegetables, pies, and rifles upon them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-11-18
A large female figure wearing a fur-lined cape and holding a fan labeled “Fashion” is using a magic wand to create flower-strewn rain clouds that drive away the remnants of the presidential campaign and the marchers carrying banners that state “Down with Money Power,” “Down with Populism,” “Prosperity,” and “16 to 1,” leaving in her wake fashionably dressed men and women at a formal ball. Caption: That although the follies of the presidential campaign are vanishing, Fashion still reigns, and the doings of her votaries will amuse us the same as ever.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-11-25
A man and a woman stand on a hilltop observing dark clouds composed of empty religious vestments, bunnies, and chicks drifting across the sky. The clouds partially obscure a disk (the Eucharistic bread and/or sun) labeled “Easter’s Religious Significance” showing a cross and a crown of thorns.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03-23
Columbia sits on a rock on the coast as men bring packages of supplies labeled “From Ohio, Missouri, From New York, [and] California.” Just offshore, men pull on the oars of a rowboat laden with large bundles labeled “For German Sufferers” and “For Germany” and a large money bag. In the background, debris floats on the high waters of devastating floods. Overhead are fair weather clouds labeled “Charity” and dark clouds, which drop more rain, labeled “Suffering [and] Distress.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-01-17
Puck reclines before a table covered with alcoholic beverages, some labeled “V. H. Dusenbury’s P.P. Brandy” and “Puck Punch [No London Punch],” smoking and blowing smoke rings. Among the figures appearing in Puck’s smoke cloud are Chester Alan Arthur labeled “For a Good Veto” and fishing for “Popularity”; George M. Robeson at the helm of a boat carrying a large money bag labeled “Appropriation”; Jay Gould, Russell Sage, and William H. Vanderbilt sailing on a boat labeled “Monopoly”; Susan B. Anthony and another woman, George William Curtis labeled “Civil Service Reform,” Roscoe Conkling, Jay A. Hubbell labeled “Deform,” Ulysses S. Grant labeled “No Third Term,” David Davis, Robert Green Ingersoll boxing with Thomas De Witt Talmage, James Gordon Bennett, “Old Rossa” with “Dynamite,” Cyrus W. Field trying to net a “Coronet,” John Kelly and Samuel J. Tilden on a seesaw, William Russell Grace standing on a rock labeled “Public Esteem” with Seth Low trying to climb up, and James Russell Lowell on a “British Mission.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-09
A young woman sits on a precipice, holding aloft a bouquet, and surrounded by mountainous wilderness. The faces of young women from around the world appear as cloud formations.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-14
A weather vane with an elephant labeled “G.O.P.” is being blown in all directions by clouds labeled “New Nationalism, Radicalism, Insurgency, Conservatism, [and] Standpatism” showing the face of a proponent of each political system, among them President Taft. Caption: The Demoralized Weather-Vane — Will somebody please tell me where I’m supposed to point!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-07-26
Three old men sit on a stone wall watching the clouds form beautiful ballerinas dancing a ballet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-08