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Nicholas II, wearing crown and royal robe, draws the drapes over the window to shut out the sun labeled “Progress,” as three ghouls clutch at him from behind.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-03-08
Members of the 47th Congress carry on their shoulders large money bags labeled “Surplus $150,000,000” and “Appropriations,” and a sign that states, “No large appropriations for the Navy whilst Robeson is mixed up with it.” At the lead are three men, one dressed in armor labeled “Folger” carrying a sword labeled “Trust” and a shield labeled “Integrity,” another carrying a large ledger labeled “Chandler Navy Department,” and the third carrying a paper that states “Sen. Harris’s Exposure of Robeson.” John Sherman and John A. Logan are among the congressmen that follow. They are walking past George M. Robeson as an ogre sitting on a pile of skeletal remains of ships with skulls as figureheads and labeled “U.S.N.,” at the entrance to a cave labeled “Naval Committee.” Robeson is biting his fingernails. A notice at the entrance to the cave states, “$180,000,000 squandered and stolen during Robeson’s management of the Navy 1868-76.” Caption: “…He is, by reason of age, also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave’s mouth, grinning at Appropriations as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-05-03
A figure composed of corn and corn stalks labeled “Record Breaking Crops” walks through a dark wood at night with a diminutive Uncle Sam, who is frightened by scary-looking trees labeled “Johnson, Taft, Sherman, Roosevelt, Wilson, [and] Debs.” Caption: “Don’t be frightened, Sammy. They can’t hurt you while I am with you.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-16
A large ghoul, wearing a dark shroud labeled “Necessity” and holding a whip, leads a small child out of a home where an unemployed parent is slumped over a table in the background. Over the door is a sign that reads “Lead Kindly Light,” and outside the doorway, two children are walking toward a factory and a sign that states “Machinery Operated by Children – Men Need Not Apply.” Caption: From the cradle to the mill.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-04-10