Halloween

At center, Uncle Sam looks into a mirror while descending a stairway in a hall. “Swallow” and “Watson” are standing in the hall, holding candles. In the vignette at lower left, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Parker, and Davis, arrive in costume. On the lower right they are unmasked and engaged in a game with Columbia. On the middle left is “Bryan” as “An Old Timer,” and on the middle right “Taggart” and “Belmont” play a prank on an elderly woman with a “Bogie Man” labeled “Militarism.” At top left, bobbing for “Campaign Funds” are “Taggart, Bliss, Cortelyou, [and] Belmont,” and at top right “Odell, Shaw, [and] Hill” are “Jumping the Issues.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-10-26

Typed transcript of an article that appeared in the Bismarck Tribune, describing how the cowboys of the Badlands celebrated Halloween.

Collection

Dickinson State University

Creation Date

1885-11-03

Creator(s)

Unknown

A collection of articles relating to Medora and the Badlands that were published in The Bismarck Tribune.

Collection

Dickinson State University

Creation Date

1885-1886

Creator(s)

Unknown

William H. Taft sees what appears to be a ghost in front of him although it is actually William Jennings Bryan and a donkey hidden in a sheet. Taft says, “That’s the same one that tried to scare Teddy.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-31

Sally Flandrau Cutcheon does not wish to receive more letters from Charles Macomb Flandrau in the style of the last one. Cutcheon describes a story told to her by Joe Humphreys about some Native Americans in the Dakotas. She is attending the Women’s Congress to see Julia Ward Howe speak and recently visited her family.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1891-10-30

Creator(s)

Cutcheon, Sarah (Sally) Flandrau, 1866-1947

Charles F. “Murphy” holds “Father Knickerbocker,” a symbolic figure for New York City, his hands bound behind his back, over a large tub labeled “City Hall,” his head underwater among “Plums” labeled “Good Things, Appointments, Contracts, [and] Jobs.” Edward E. “McCall,” kneeling next to the tub, has pulled out a plum labeled “Control” and is handing it to Murphy. Caption: Boss Murphy — Take your time, Ed, and get ’em all. His Knicklets here won’t bother you.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-10-29

Creator(s)

Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937