Demonstrations

“Gen. Coxey” carries a sword labeled “Sensation” and leads a band of disgruntled citizens marching under the banner, “We Want $500,000,000 in Irredeemable Money! and Death to Interest on Bonds!” They are chasing soap bubbles and balloons labeled, “Don’t help yourself get the government to help you!, Paternalism, It is the duty of the government to furnish work to the unemployed, [and] The government must pay the freight!” William McKinley, holding a bowl labeled “McKinley’s Soft Soap Bubbles,” Benjamin Harrison, and Thomas B. Reed appear as spirits leading Coxey’s Army toward the edge of a cliff.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-04-18

Police are breaking up a demonstration by capitalists who are turning the tables on the socialists by demanding their rights. Vignettes depict a capitalist rally in a “Fifth Avenue Dive”; Socialist thugs pressuring a priest for delivering sermons “dee-cidedly capitalistic”; A Socialist dismayed by a newspaper headline that states “Heinrich Equalrights, son of Socialist leader, joins capitalistic ranks”; and a poor showing for capitalists in the “Election Returns Bulletin.”

Comments and Context

Puck‘s occasional cartooning visitor, Harry Grant Dart, who drew mainly for the New York World and the Herald; and Life and Judge magazines into the 1920s, specialized in these busy genre-scenes. His work was always filled with details, impeccable perspective, and, often, “steampunk” or futuristic devices.

In this cartoon, Dart’s futuristic speculation is confined to the ideological — the humorous, logical, and frightening extensions of life in a Socialist America.

Photograph of a group of Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees standing outside their barracks in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1941

Photograph of unidentified Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees digging a ditch within one of the camps in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of an original picture containing Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees from companies 2771 and 2772 standing at a completed stone culvert constructed in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps work detail from companies 2771 and 2772 walking to a project site in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. Visible in the background are tents used prior to the construction of the camp barracks.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that housed companies 2771 and 2772 in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps truck parked in the snow at camp in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee Johnnie Logosz standing on a park pylon at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930

Photograph of the Civilian Conservation Corps company 2772 band playing within camp next to a building in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1939

Photograph of two unidentified Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees standing next the entrance sign for the camp that housed companies 2771 and 2772 in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of a temporary field mess shelter used by Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that housed camp 2772 in the North Unit of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees working at a park road construction site in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of a stone culvert and bridge being constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp kitchen with the mess sergeant (right) and an enrollee at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of a note concerning the passing of a Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee and an American flag flown in his honor at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

Photograph of a wooden foot bridge crossing Government Creek constructed by the Civilian Conservation in the South Unit of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

Photograph of unidentified men inspecting a retaining wall constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps crossing Government Creek in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1937

Photograph of a wooden foot bridge constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps crossing Government Creek in the South Unit of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1937