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In this vignette cartoon, Uncle Sam stands at the center placing money in a box labeled, “To Save the Heathen of Foreign Lands.” Around him are vignettes showing American pastimes of pigeon shooting, cockfighting, boxing, and turkey-grabbing, as well as a lynching. Caption: And yet Uncle Sam is always giving money to “save the heathen.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-09-08
Three baseball players are entwined by snakes formed of baseballs labeled “Base Ball Trust.” Each carries a “Contract,” one for $8000, one for $10000, and one for $12000 and also stuffed in his belt papers labeled “Bonds, Stocks, [and] Deed Oran[ge] Farm.” Caption: No class of labor feels the grip of grinding monopoly more than our underpaid, overworked ball-players.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-05-14
President Roosevelt tells Brander Matthews that it is “horrid” to decline a request for “a pair of old pants” and thinks it is best to stay silent about the abridged spelling.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-01
American Counsel in England Halstead encloses an article by A. Maurice Low from The London Daily Post. Though titled “An Appreciation,” the article seems like a criticism, which is in line with the stories he has heard of Low’s character. He wishes Loeb a merry Christmas. His own Christmas has not been satisfactory, his wife is in Washington, D.C., at his mother-in-law’s bedside, and the children miss her.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-27