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Cupid appears on horseback, shooting two handguns into the air outside the North Portico of the White House, on the occasion of the wedding of Alice Lee Roosevelt, President Roosevelt’s daughter, and Nicholas Longworth. Caption: February 17th, 1906.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-02-14
Cupids on horseback lasso attractive young couples and herd them toward the “Matrimonial Corral” in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-09-09
The bust portrait of “Miss Africa” appears over a heart on a Valentine’s card that states “Will You Be My Valentine?”, with two black putti.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-02-10
Cupid writes notes that state “Two can live as cheaply as one.” Some are addressed to “Mr. Huggard,” “Mr. Younglove,” and “Mr. Spoony.” Watching him are a doctor, a nurse, a butcher, a grocer, a milkman, a maid, and a businessman.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03-30
A woman stands against a wall with many arrows stuck around her. Cupid tells a man standing nearby that he is doing his best. Caption: Cupid — I’m doing the best I can, old man, but if I make one hit in twenty these days I’m lucky.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-02-14
President Taft, as a blindfolded cupid labeled “Party Solidarity,” wears a quiver labeled “Harmony” and stands against a backdrop of a large red heart. He is holding strings attached to four birds labeled “Root, Wickersham, Knox, [and] Aldrich,” and two strings attached to arrows that have been shot through hearts labeled “Insurgent” and “Reactionary.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-02-09