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Lieutenant General Nelson Appleton Miles sits astride a horse and presents his sword to Father Time, who holds that hourglass reading “64.” There is a sign in the upper left-hand corner: Nelson A. Miles. Lieut. Gen. U.S.A. Retired Aug 6th 1903.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-06
A large group of revelers toots horns to celebrate the new year and the arrival of a young boy labeled “1909.” Father Time labeled “1908” departs, taking Thomas Collier Platt with him.
An otherwise innocuous, generic, celebratory cartoon in the 1908 New Year’s Eve issue of Puck has a political element as a bonus; and a rather pointed barb at that.
After the elections of 1908, many members of Senate and House of Representatives were retiring. Puck took special delighting in noting the departure from the national political scene of Senator Thomas Collier Platt. Platt had been a presence in Republican politics since 1881 when, as New York’s junior senator, he resigned his seat in concert with New York’s senior senator Roscoe Conkling. In a patronage dispute with the new president, James Garfield, they expected vindication by reelection of the state legislature (the public did not vote for senatorial candidates at the time)… but were surprised to be rejected. Conkling left politics; Platt — called by cartoonists of the day, chiefly Puck‘s, “Me Too” Platt” — survived and became a greater dictator of Republican politics and his state and through much of the national party.
The new year, “1911,” arrives by airplane, while on the ground Father Time looks aghast at the airplane overhead and the wreck of his automobile labeled “1910.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-12-28
Father Time rings bells proclaiming “The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number,” while a crowd in the street celebrates the New Year by using noisemakers, horns, drums, and cymbals to sound their personal causes, such as “Partisanship” and “Partisan Politics,” “Ring Politics,” “Spoils System,” “Women’s Rights,” and “Calamity Howling.” Caption: Time, the Bell-Ringer — Some year, perhaps, they’ll stop their noise long enough to hear the chimes.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-12-28
This vignette cartoon depicts changes to folklore, fairy tales, courtship, and punishment, that will result from the cycling craze. Vignettes include witches riding bicycles instead of brooms, Father Time riding a bicycle, Cupid running over victims with a bicycle instead of shooting arrows at them, fairies on bicycles, and a cyclist’s nightmare in Hell.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-21
Father Time presents the new year labeled “1886” to Puck standing in the foreground, holding his lithographic pencil. Behind him are scenes of events from 1885, such as President Cleveland’s inauguration on March 4, Fredinand Ward’s conviction and William Mahone’s defeat, publication of Pope Leo XIII’s “Encyclical” Immortale Dei, Louis Pasteur’s anti-rabies vaccine, Chinese attacked in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and Tacoma, Washington Territory, and the Grim Reaper strikes down Ulysses S. Grant, Alfonso XII of Spain, William H. Vanderbilt, composer Leopold Damrosch, Cardinal McCloskey, Thomas Hendricks, and Victor Hugo. Fighting continues in Bulgaria, Sudan, Tonquin, and Spain.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-12-30
Print shows a vignette cartoon where the vignettes display many aspects of time, such as “All time, Behind time, Hard time, High time, Lost time, Long time, Time’s up, Correct time, Take time, On time, Mean time, Due time, [and] First time.” The central vignette shows the “Flight of Time” as Father Time is chased away by a cherub carrying a torch labeled “1884.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-12-26
Two men ride bicycles. One is just starting out on life’s journey, being towed by Father Time. The second one is nearing the end of life’s journey and about to get caught by a scythe and thrown from the bicycle into a grave. Milestones and signs mark the journey: in youth there is “Health,” between 20 and 30 there is “Happiness,” at 40 there is “Pleasure,” at 50 “Hope,” at 60 there is “Neglect,” between 60 and 70 there are “Regrets” and “Sickness,” at 80 there is “Fear,” and at 90 is an open grave with an owl perched on the mile-marker. At the top center is a “Half Way House” and at bottom center, in a floral arrangement, is an hourglass on top of a clock.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-07-11
Father Time ushers out an old man labeled “1911.” He is surprised when he looks over his shoulder at the arrival of “1912” and sees a female Baby New Year wearing a hat and furs and holding a paper that states “Happy New Year Votes for Women.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-12-27