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An old woman, known as “Madame Democracy Palmist,” reads William Randolph Hearst’s palm and speaks of the future. Caption: “You have reason to fear a large, dark man, who will shortly return from abroad!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-06-27
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
Theodore Roosevelt ponders a crystal ball with Woodrow Wilson’s face.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1916
Full color political cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt as a fortune teller. He sits inside a circus tent, reading the palm of a female figure labeled “New York State.” Leaving from the right side of the tent are Pennsylvania and Ohio. Waiting in line at the left are Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1910