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“The United Order of Jingoes,” comprised of newspaper editors and legislators identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Reed, Frye, Reid, Lodge, Allison, Boutelle, [and] Hoar,” sits outside the White House on a winter’s night, in the snow. President Cleveland, visible through a window, reads from a paper labeled “Cleveland’s Hawaiian Policy.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-02-20
A man is hit with a snowball on the back of his head, knocking off his hat and pince-nez. Caption: Concentration on this picture for five minutes will be found to equal two mint juleps and a cold shower-bath.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-08-11
Arctic explorers Frederick A. Cook and Robert E. Peary face off on either side of a frozen figure labeled “The Pole” holding up Cook’s “Book Royalties” and Peary’s “Lecture Receipts.” Each claims to have seen “The Pole” first. Caption: With acknowledgements to the designer of the Hudson-Fulton poster.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-09-29
A young man, in late winter, huddles over a small fire on a beach while a young woman swims offshore.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-02-21
A large man with a $ in his hair, wearing a bathing suit labeled “High Tariff Graft Interests,” stands in a lake labeled “The New Tariff.” He is shivering from the sudden change in the climate. A long hook labeled “Congress” is dragging his ermine robe labeled “High Protection” beyond his reach.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-03
Vignettes show how it might look if the summer were as cold as spring. In the central image, bathers at the seashore wear fur clothing and must step over steam-pipes for heating the surf. Surrounding images show a couple in the midst of a proposal being interrupted by walruses, patrons enjoying hot-sauce drinks “At the Fizz Fountain,” people bundled up on the resort porch happy to be free of mosquitoes which “die at a temperature of 14° or less,” and a guest getting a hot water bottle delivered to his room.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-06-05
A woman wearing winter clothing and holding her muff in front of her face has only one eye exposed.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-01-04
Oyster Bay’s veteran stage driver, Amos Boerum, asks President Roosevelt for help as he faces winter without enough money to buy coal and other necessities.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-07