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A circular textile featuring embroidered flowers, ships, birds, and a sailor. Below the ships, “At sea. April 15, 1910” is embroidered. Lace decorates the edge. The textile was owned by Charles C. Myers.
1910-04-15
White, square handkerchief with curly embroidery around the edge. An embroidered flower is in the corner and a the date and “France” is handwritten on the next corner. The handkerchief was owned by Charles C. Myers.
1910-12-25
A rectangular textile embroidered with multi-colored florals owned by Charles C. Myers.
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English
1908
A postcard showing people on a city street with an individual next to a stand with flowers. Charles C. Myers notes this is a flower seller in Sydney, Australia.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Flower sellers as you see them on the streets of Sydney.”
Charles C. Myers Collection
Postcard showing a flower market in Honolulu, Hawaii. The vendors are surrounded by flowers and many are wearing flower leis.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “A group of flower girls– including one Japanese man”
Charles C. Myers Collection
Stereograph showing the Agricultural Building and floral clock at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
Photograph depicting flowers and snow in Pasadena, California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01
President Roosevelt wishes that he could have been able to pay his respects in person instead of only sending flowers to honor “that American whom all good Americans are united in honoring.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-03
“Judge Parker” rows a small vessel that holds a casket on which a woman labeled “democracy” rests. The vessel is decorated with flowers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-03
Richard Olney holds a watering can as he looks down at a withered flower in the “New England corner” labeled “Olney presidential boom.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-09
Governor Roosevelt sends his regards for John Campbell Greenway’s health. He conveys his children’s concerns about Greenway, and notes that they sent flowers with notes enclosed in the box.
Arizona Historical Society
1900-03-17
A tall man labeled “Consumer” serves as the May pole to a group of chubby girls labeled “Steel Trust, Lumber Trust, Sugar Trust, Wool Trust, [and] Glove Trust” who are winding ribbons labeled “Schedule” around him. He is standing beneath cherry blossoms which spell “Puck.”
Seldom missing the opportunity to employ a pun, the issue marking May Day, the international workers’ day, Puck created a neologism in the caption to Albert Levering’s cartoon: “A Maypolitical Party.”
The hapless consumer — an iconic figured eventually supplanted by the political cartoonists’ average voter, John Q. Public — is strapped, immobile, by the children at the May day picnic. To depict the predicament more clearly, Levering has the “innocent” children as representatives of various trusts that still controlled the prices of many consumer goods in America. Further, the young girls are all chubby, from prosperous families; and the consumer is thin and wan.
Roswell P. Flower and Levi P. Morton are watering flowers labeled “Presidential Hopes” by pouring money on them. Morton’s flower is much taller than Flower’s flower. Caption: The same method, but different results.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-09-19
John Sherman, Secretary of State, dressed as an old woman with a purse labeled “Sec. Sherman,” plucks the petals off daisies labeled “Hawaii, Cuba, [and] Bering Sea” picked from a flowerpot labeled “Diplomatic Questions.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-14
Women, interspersed among flowers, are engaged in various activities, such as social work, dancing, attending the theater, and as brides. The accompanying verse begins with the stanza, “O city flowers, what kin are you / To country children of sun and dew? / Hot-house-bred wantons, glad to be sold / To bloom and be sweet for Sin and Gold!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-01-06
Print shows a moth or butterfly labeled “N.Y. County Democracy” with bust portraits of Lucius Robinson, Abram S. Hewitt, Samuel J. Tilden, and Clarkson N. Potter on the wings; it has just emerged from a pupa labeled “Tammany” with the face of John Kelly, and is flying toward a flower blossom labeled “1884”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-11-02
Theodore Roosevelt relates the chase and capture of three thieves that had stolen his boat. The thieves were captured along the river and then Roosevelt took them overland to the sheriff in Dickinson, Dakota Territory. He read Anna Karenina during the trip and has mixed feelings about the quality of the book but enjoyed Leo Tolstoy’s writing style. Roosevelt requests that Corinne Roosevelt Robinson deliver some flowers to Edith Kermit Carow before Carow travels abroad.
1886-04-12
President Taft, dressed as a woman, waters a garden labeled “Delegates – Hardy Quadrennial” with a watering can labeled “Patronage.” The “flowers” have human heads.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-04-24