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At center a valentine card features President Roosevelt as Cupid. Around the outside are other valentines featuring two European leaders, American industrial and political figures, a Russian admiral, a writer identified only as “Tom,” and a Wall Street con artist.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-02-08
John A. Dowie appears as a wizard at center, offering salvation and other products to gullible customers. The surrounding vignettes show various types of “people,” such as “The working people”, downtrodden and depressed, who are tricked into following the “Walking Delegate,” his pockets overflowing with money, and “The get-rich-quick people” who anxiously purchase bogus stocks and securities. There are those who have their palms read and those who believe they can build their own homes, as well as those who show off their castles with a huge “Mortgage.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-10-14
A wizard holds the strings to a wooden jumping toy shaped like a globe with a head, arms and legs. He is surrounded by vignettes with captions: “An early fake,” “The Millerites, waiting for the world to ‘come to an end,'” “The ‘Materializing’ fraud,” “The ‘Get Rich Quick’ delusion,” “The Dowieite’s short-cut to Heaven,” “The superstition of modern drug worship,” and “The profitable ‘Religion’ of Christian Science.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-04-10
President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Clayton to arrange an interview with President of Mexico Díaz for religious leader John Alexander Dowie and his wife, Jane Dowie.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-03
A commentary on the character of William Randolph Hearst in relation to how he has used his newspapers to shape public opinion about people in public office and current events. Focuses especially on the political cartoonists Hearst has employed, the editorials featured in his papers, and how he has used his ability to report and shape the news to aid his political efforts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-06