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President Roosevelt and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman go fishing in a “senatorial pool.” At the bottom of the pool is “the railroad rate bill” turtle, a “Philippine tariff bill” alligator, a “statehood bill” frog, and a “Santo Domingo” fish. On the ledge are two crayfish by a “bait amendments” can.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes Frank M. Chapman to ask to borrow “the frog swallowing the lizard” which Roosevelt sent to the museum several months ago. The loan is for Mrs. Ella May Howland, the wife of the publisher of The Outlook, and the bearer of the letter will undertake to return it after a day or two.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-12
In a reply to Arthur Hamilton Lee, Theodore Roosevelt describes the activities and achievements of the Roosevelt family, including the impending birth of his grandchild to Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt. Roosevelt expresses relief at the end of his public speaking career and is more preoccupied by his interest in natural history than in politics, including his upcoming article, “Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds and Mammals.” Roosevelt then goes on to discuss politics, including his approval of the current British king, expresses frustration with the American people, and discusses President Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-27
President Roosevelt writes to Judge Magoon of the War Department that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt loves the Aztec frog gift and is turning it into a pendant.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-10
A heron wearing a “Parker” crown picks up a frog with the face of Martin W. Littleton. Other frogs watch, including Joseph W. Bailey, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman with his pitchfork, William Jennings Bryan, David B. Hill, and Charles Francis Murphy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-22
President William H. Taft, as Saint Patrick, wears a miter with the spectacles and grin of Theodore Roosevelt on it. Carrying Roosevelt’s big stick wrapped in “His Policies,” he strides ashore toward lizards, snakes, and frogs labeled “Aldrich, Cannon, Rockefeller, Harriman, Land Grafter, Ship Subsidy, Beef Trust, [and] ‘Preserved’ Food.”
Barely weeks into his Administration, President William H. Taft is in Puck Magazine’s honeymoon phase, depicted in the cover cartoon by L. M. Glackens as a Saint Patrick who legendarily drove snakes from Ireland. Taft, caricatured as almost thin — anyway, not of the roly-poly corpulence in campaign cartoons — and earnestly about good deeds.
A group of conquistadors labeled “Hoar, Sherman, Depew, Harrison, Reed, McKinley [as Ponce de León], Wanamaker, W. Reid, Boutelle, [and] Foraker” gather around a pool of water labeled “High Protection Doctrine,” drinking the water. Frogs in the lower right corner are labeled “Monopolist.” Caption: They think it is the fountain of political youth and strength; but it is only a stagnant pool that is almost dried up.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-01-24
Uncle Sam is taking a large frog out of a fish tank labeled “U.S. Treasury” before it eats all the goldfish. Caption: Uncle Sam – I’ll have to kill this here Greenback Frog; or, by Jingo! he’ll swallow up all my Gold Fish!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-01-30
Print shows a large frog labeled “La Ligue Patriotique” and “Paul Déroulède” sitting on a lily pad labeled “Anti-Semitism”; standing on the shore is a man, wearing a phrygian cap and holding a paper that states “Vive La Republique,” watching the frog explode.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-03-22
Near a wetland labeled “Campaign Swamp” are William M. Evarts and John G. Carlisle as two cranes on the left. Several frogs identified as “Lincoln, Arthur, Robeson, Edmunds, Cameron, Sherman, Logan, Grant, Davis, [and] Blaine” perch on the right. Another small frog, labeled “Me Too,” who may be Jay Gould, rides piggy-back on a larger frog that may be William H. Vanderbilt. “Lincoln” is making a leap over “Arthur” across a bit of water toward a board labeled “Presidential Nomination 1884” that is part of a dock or wharf. Caption: It would not surprise us to see the above acrobatic feat performed by this rising young frog.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-03-26
A black Labrador retriever labeled “Jack” sits on a life preserver labeled “Re-election to U.S. Senate” on a board propped up against the bank of a lake. Sitting on the shore in the lower right corner is a frog that looks like Benjamin F. Butler. Caption: Mr. Logan’s enthusiastic friends have already nominated him for the presidency – in 1888.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-06-10
A large bull labeled “Lincoln,” with the head of Abraham Lincoln, stands among the reeds of a swamp where a puffed-up frog labeled “Roosevelt” is standing on a piece of driftwood labeled “Progressivism” in a pool of water labeled “Practical Politics.” Caption: The frog who wanted to be as big as the bull.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-09-25