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William Randolph Hearst appears as Shakespeare’s Richard III in a dream-state when various ghosts appear before him. His armor hangs on a nearby wall in preparation for battle. The ghost of William McKinley speaks Clarence’s line, “Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-10-31
A young boy sits on the ground, leaning against a tree, asleep. Around him are clusters of fireworks waiting to be ignited.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-07-04
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, as Don Quixote, sits in a chair, reading, with a sword in raised right hand, with visions of former (and current) presidents, as well as some of the social ills that he hopes to correct. Caption: Our esteemed Vice-President takes his candidacy seriously.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-05-24
A turkey sits on a tree branch, dreaming of a “Vegetarian Pledge” and countless people lining up to sign their names. All the wild and domestic animals laugh. In the lower right corner, an old man with an axe waits for the turkey.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-11-23
A man dreams about enforcing the blue laws by punishing young men for playing baseball, a young woman for playing golf, even a young girl for picking flowers. He imagines them imploring him to allow them their particular Sunday pursuits.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-13
A lullaby poem, describing what happens when children sleep. Quentin Roosevelt’s name is at the top, and the poem is in the hand of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Authorship is uncertain.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1906-03-10
Transcript of an article that appeared in the Evening Courier of Portland, Maine. Article was by Wesley Bradshaw (pen name of Charles Wesley Alexander) and recounts the story of General George McClellan’s vision of George Washington warning him of the imminent advance of Confederate troops on Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1862-03-08
Cartoon shows a dreaming man representing Cuba next to a sugar knife “Industria” with a sugar refinery in the background. In his dream a man “Sugar Trust” walks arm in arm with Cuban ambassador to the U.S. Gonzalo de Quesada.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
President Roosevelt sleeps in a bed next to a nightstand of books—”Hunting Big Game” and “The Winning of the West”—as he dreams about Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna riding on a Republican elephant.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-15
President Roosevelt sleeps as he is surrounded by a number of dreams about reelection, the Panama Canal, Tammany Hall, business and labor, and trusts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12
This issue of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research consists mainly of an account by H. Rider Haggard attesting that a dream he had of a dog is evidence of a psychic connection. Haggard dreamed of a dog with whom he was familiar, and believed that the dog was communicating that it was dying. He later learned that the dog had indeed died. Supporting accounts from Haggard’s household confirm his report of a dream, and investigations from the surrounding area confirm the approximate time of the dog’s death. An additional letter at the end of the journal provides further details about a previously reported meeting with famed psychic and spiritualist D. D. Home.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10
President William H. Taft sits on a tree branch labeled “Cost of Living,” which bends lower under his weight, above a smiling man labeled “Consumer” lying on the ground dreaming of the commercial products that soon will be within his reach.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-04-28
At top, a laborer daydreams he has the ears of a mule and carries a banner that states, “Strike! No Surrender! Down with Capital!” He is being led over barricades by a “Walking Delegate” who gestures toward a laborer standing with one foot on a prostrate industrialist. At the bottom is depicted the reality of an unemployed laborer’s waking life of familial discord, though he still has the ears of a mule. Caption: Same old day-dream. Same old awakening.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-03-20
Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed is asleep at his desk, dreaming that Thomas Collier Platt and Matthew S. Quay, as angels, are coming to offer him the “Presidential Nomination 1896.” Caption: It beats Jacob’s ladder out of sight.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-01-01
Uncle Sam lies asleep in a chair with a large eagle perched on a stand next to him. He is dreaming of conquests and annexations, asserting his “Monroe Doctrine” rights, becoming master of the seas, putting John Bull in his place, and building “formidable and invulnerable coast defenses.” On the floor by the chair are jingoistic and yellow journalism newspapers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-13
President William McKinley lies in bed dreaming of William Jennings Bryan riding the Democratic donkey and leading members of the Democratic Party. Party members carry banners that state, “Anti-American Foreign Policy,” “16 to 1 or Bust All Paper Should be Coined into Ten-Dollar Bills,” “Death to Trusts (the necessities of life are too cheap already),” “Down with the Courts,” and “Free Silver.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-08-02
Print shows the dream of an “Anti-Expansionist” where Admiral George Dewey, General Elwell S. Otis, a sailor, and a soldier come ashore in the Philippines to offer their weapons and the American flag in surrender to Emilio Aguinaldo and a poorly armed, ragged, but haughty, group of Filipinos.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-19
A female figure labeled “Europe” sleeps among boxes of “Munitions of War [and] Ammunition,” large shells, and a barrel of “Powder” with a candle labeled “Ambition” as a burning fuse. She is dreaming about “The Czar’s Proposal for a Universal Peace Congress.” Her dream shows an angel holding up a banner labeled “Millennium” around which are dancing the symbolic representations of several countries. Among them are a fox, a turkey wearing a fez, a double-headed eagle labeled “Austria,” a cock labeled “France,” an eagle labeled “Germany,” the British Lion, the Russian Bear labeled “Russia,” a fox labeled “Italy,” a cat labeled “Spain,” and a dragon labeled “China.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-05
An elderly businessman with his eyes closed dreams or reminisces of past affairs with young women who are clustered around and on his head, speaking in his right ear and caressing his cheeks.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-15
Puck’s stereotypical Irishman labeled “Democracy” appears in the role of “Bottom” from Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with Puck holding the head of an ass above him. He is holding a paper that states “Free Protection for Revenue Only. Free Revenue Reform for Protection Only. To the Civil Service Reformers belong the Spoils!!!” A host of fairies, insects, and minions of the night are gathered around him, including Theodore Roosevelt as a fairy standing on a snail labeled “N. Y. City Reform,” John Logan as a mushroom, John Kelly as a spider on a web labeled “N. Y.,” William Evarts as a bird with a long beak, unidentified man as a frog, James Blaine and George Robeson as owls, David Davis, Samuel J. Tilden as a grasshopper, Roscoe Conkling as a bird, Whitelaw Reid labeled “3 cts” and another man labeled “2 cts” as moths, and a diminutive Chester A. Arthur peering from behind Bottom’s feet. Jay Gould appears as a snake in the bushes. Among the fairies are “Randall, Carlisle, Dana, Cleveland, Cox,” and Henry Watterson. Uncle Sam and Columbia observe from behind a tree. Includes Bottom’s lines “I have had a dream – past the wit of men to say what dream it was. … But man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had” from the play.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-02-20