Fruit

President Roosevelt thanks Mary Sheffield Moriarty for the basket of fruit.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-23

John Kelly, dressed as an old woman street vendor, sits at “Mrs. J. Kelly Political Fruit Stand,” selling “N.Y. Patronage Lemonade.” He has tossed to the gutter a lemon labeled “Edson” that shows the face of former Mayor of New York City, Franklin Edson. Whitelaw Reid leans around a corner at the end of the produce stand, where a notice has been pasted on the wall that states “City Hall Theatre. Passion Play. Judas – Edson.” Caption: A lemon that will never more contribute to the patronage bowl.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-12-17

Vignettes show a country woman harvesting canned fruits and vegetables from “The Quaint Old Kitchen Garden,” surrounded with scenes of a young boy catching canned “Salmon” from a stream filled with other canned fish, an old man trying to catch cans of chicken running about the farm yard, a man loading a wagon at the “Freight Depot” with food products shipped from New York, and a milkmaid at a dairy opening a can of “Condensed Milk” at “Milking Time.” Caption: “Table stocked daily with an abundance of eggs, milk, fresh fish and vegetables.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

The caption of S. D. Ehrhart’s topical genre cartoon is, of course, a phrase that frequently appeared in brochures, signs, and newspaper advertisements for weekend or summer-vacation getaways at farms and rural spots. Whether farmers were committed to sell their produce to larger concerns, and needed to rely on canned goods, or not, Ehrhart’s cartoon probably was more representational than satirical.

Military Governor of Puerto Rico Davis sends Secretary of War Root information about the effects of a hurricane that struck Puerto Rico. He describes the damage and what relief supplies are needed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1899-08-13