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President Roosevelt stands on top of the “third term talk” giant with his big stick. Caption: The modern giant killer.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-12-04
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Giants
The warrior’s return
President Roosevelt appears as a knight on horseback carrying a lance labeled “Reciprocity” over his shoulder with a sack labeled “Campaign Funds” hanging from it. In the background is a giant ogre labeled “Infant Industries” sitting against a castle with a club labeled “Dingley Tariff” nestled against his right arm. Over the castle is flying a banner of “High Protection,” and a despondent maiden labeled “Fair Trade” is standing at the top of a tower.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-10-05
Jack and the Wall Street giants
A diminutive President Roosevelt stands on Wall Street, holding a large sword labeled “Public Service” before giant capitalist ogres labeled “J. J. Hill” holding a club labeled “Merger,” “Morgan” holding a club labeled “High Finance,” and “Rockefeller, Oxnard, [and] Gould.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-01-13
Who will get the credit?
An interior view of the House of Representatives shows Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other. A gigantic man wearing a crown labeled “Protected Trusts” and clothing decorated with dollar signs, his hands resting on a huge club labeled “Protected Tariffs,” sits before them, dwarfing the Speaker’s chair and rostrum. Representative Joseph W. Babcock climbs the club and turns to address Republican colleagues who attempt to flee in fear. The Democrats calmly sit and laugh. Caption: Representative Babcock (to his Republican Associates)–You’d better help me take this club away! The Democrats will do it if you don’t!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902-03-05
Puck 25th anniversary 1877-1902
Puck holds a pen and stands on a pedestal labeled “What fools these mortals be.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902-03-12
The coming struggle
President Roosevelt, as a knight on horseback, carries a lance labeled “Reciprocity” and faces a giant ogre labeled “Infant Industries” and leaning on a club labeled “Dingley Tariff.” In the background on the left is a castle flying a banner “High Protection” and with a maiden labeled “Fair Trade” standing at the top of a tower. Caption: And so the knight promised to take up his late lord’s lance and carry on the fight.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1901-10-16
He can’t see them
William Jennings Bryan carries a banner that states “16 to 1 will help you,” and Adlai E. Stevenson carries a banner that states “I ran with Cleveland, vote for me.” They stand in front of a gigantic farmer who has swelled to enormous proportions on profits from wheat, cotton, and other farm produce.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1900-08-29
Crowning the abomination
A huge figure labeled “Tariff for Trusts,” wearing a quilted cape labeled with products and percentages and holding papers labeled “Concessions,” sits between the Senate and House chambers. Garret A. Hobart sits on the left and Thomas B. Reed sits on the right. Nelson Dingley and William B. Allison, holding enormous pincers labeled “Ways and Means Committee” and “Finance Committee” with a crown labeled “Sherman’s Bluff Anti-Trust Law of 1890” in the jaws, are placing the crown on the head of the devilish figure at center.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-07-28
Creator(s)
Jack and the giant
Theodore Roosevelt appears as a giant sitting on a rock with a large stick across his lap. He is being challenged by a diminutive figure labeled “The Constitution” with a large sword and two even smaller figures labeled “You” and “Me.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1907-03-20
Jack the giant-killer
Two giants, one labeled “Taft” and the other labeled “T.R.”, stand back to back, nervously perspiring, as a young boy holds aloft a sword labeled “Tariff Revision” with his right hand while holding a basket labeled “The Empty Market Basket” to his chest with his left hand.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1912-09-11
Creator(s)
Woodrow and the bean-stalk
A man labeled “Wilson” with an axe labeled “Tariff Revision,” who has just chopped through vines labeled “Excessive Protection,” causes a giant labeled “Monopoly” to fall to the ground.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1912-10-30