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The front of the postcard shows intersecting color circular portraits of President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, with leaves and an American flag and a Union Jack flag.
1907-1914
Kermit Roosevelt was sorry to hear of the dreadful time Isabella Ferguson is having. He describes the Roosevelt family’s travels in Europe, specifically Norway. Theodore Roosevelt is being received everywhere with great enthusiasm.
1909-05-18
An image of impoverished, bedraggled Revolutionary War-era patriots is contrasted with President Roosevelt portrayed as a king, with Uncle Sam bending to kiss Roosevelt’s foot.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
Alexander III, labeled “Russia,” looks sternly at William II, labeled “Germany,” who returns the glare, as they walk along a pathway away from a statue of “Peace,” a female figure with wings, looking doubtful. Alexander III is accompanied by a diminutive Sadi Carnot labeled “France” who is shaking his fist across the pathway at a diminutive Umberto I, labeled “Italy,” who in turn shakes his fist, and a diminutive Franz Joseph I, labeled “Austria,” who accompany William II.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-08
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Several European rulers stand next to signposts labeled “France, Turkey, England, Germany, Italy, Austria, [and] Russia” lining the sides of a dirt road, with “Servia” and “Roumania” in the background. The rulers are all keeping an eye on William II, the German Emperor, as he walks down the road between them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-10-18
A large group of children in a nursery are fighting amongst themselves. They are labeled “England” and “Russia,” “Austria” and “Italy,” “Greece” and “Turkey,” “France” and “Germany” fighting over a child or doll labeled “Alsace Lorraine,” “Roumania” and “Servia,” and in the background on the left, “Denmark” and “Sweden,” and “China” and Japan. The mother of the house, an angel labeled “Peace,” looks tired and exasperated. There is a dead bird in a birdcage hanging on the left. Caption: Madam Peace–Goodness, gracious! – were there ever such troublesome children? They are always promising to be good, and yet they are always squabbling!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-17
Queen Victoria holds up an infant labeled “Little New Duke of York. Christening Robe Cost £300.” She presents the baby to John Bull who is holding a paper that states “Heavy Expense Account – Royal Family.” In the background is a castle labeled “Royal Nursery.” The baby is probably Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-25
A scruffy man labeled “Russia” carries a rope and attempts to set a ladder against a pillar labeled “Supremacy” topped with a statue of “Britannia.” At the base of the pillar is a pile of fallen statues labeled “Alexander, Napoleon, Charles V, Charles the Great, [and] Caesar.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-07-20
A series of 12 panels relate a story about a dragon that is terrorizing a kingdom. The king issues a “proclamation” offering half his kingdom and his daughter’s hand in marriage to any of his knights who can rid the kingdom of the menacing dragon. Several knights do battle with the dragon, but all are killed. Then a man arrives in town who is an “æronaut” and has a large silk bag with him. He requests permission from the king to confront the dragon. The king laughs and considers him a fool, but gives his permission. The “æronaut” tricks the dragon into putting its head in the silk bag, which the man then ties around the dragon’s neck. In a rage, the dragon fills the bag with hot air and floats away from the kingdom. The man and the princess are married and he rules over his half of the kingdom for many years.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-12-14
Uncle Sam stands on a wharf with five diminutive figures with attributes of the rulers of Austria (Franz Joseph I), Russia (Nicholas II), France (Felix Faure), Germany (William II), and Italy (Umberto I), and with John Bull representing England. Uncle Sam is showing the others an American steamship constructed out of bundles, barrels, and bales of exports, many indicating revenue in dollars, which, he believes, they “can’t resist.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-08-17
John Bull sits on a strong fortress representing England, with a telescope in one hand and strings attached to battleships in the other. On the edge of the continent are four figures representing “Germany” (William II), “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “Italy” (Umberto I) and “France” (Felix Faure) wondering what John Bull is doing. In the background, a battle rages between the United States and Spain around the island of Cuba. Caption: The Continental Powers–What are you doing there? / John Bull–Oh! nothing, nothing at all; – just looking on!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-18
Uncle Sam, wearing a military uniform and holding a sword labeled “U.S.,” sits at a table on which is a small cake on a platter labeled “Cuba,” with a decanter labeled “Philippine Islands” on the table and a bottle labeled “Porto Rico” in an ice bucket. On the left, John Bull is holding a sword labeled “England,” slicing a large cake on a platter labeled “China.” Around the table, with him, are four figures representing “Russia” (Nicholas II), “France” (Felix Faure), “Germany” (William II), and “Japan” (Meiji), each using a sword to carve up the cake which is labeled “Wei-Hai-Wei, Coal Fields of Shan-Si, Ta-Lien-Wan, Port Arthur, Hainan, Kai Chau, [and] Formosa.” Looking on from behind a wall on the far left are Italy (Umberto I) and Austria (Franz Joseph I). Caption: John Bull (to the Powers)–What are you mad about? We can’t grudge him a light lunch while we are feasting!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-25
A scene is depicted of dueling grounds in a wooded area where a duel has taken place between a tattered buccaneer labeled “Spain” and “Medievalism” and Uncle Sam, who is holding a sword labeled “19th century Enlightenment.” On the ground between them is a broken sword labeled “Misrule.” Two figures, possibly acting as seconds, one labeled “Austria” (Franz Joseph I) and the other representing Germany (William II), are supporting “Spain” between them, and a man carrying a doctor’s bag labeled “France” is rushing from behind to attend to the wounded man. John Bull and “Japan” (Meiji) are standing behind Uncle Sam. Caption: Uncle Sam–By Jingo! I’m sorry for the poor fellow; but he made me do it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-06-01
The horrified ghost of “Charles V” observes Práxedes M. Sagasta filling an oil lamp labeled “Spanish Honor” from a container labeled “Bombast.” The lamp sits on the “Map of Spain” on top of a small table. Caption: Shade of Charles V – Is that all that is left of my sun that never set on Spanish soil?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-06-15
The child king Alfonso XIII, as a wooden puppet, is slumped over on the “Throne of Spain” with a clergyman standing next to him. On the walls to the right are portrait paintings of “Charles V, Ferdinand and Isabella, [and] Philip II.” On the left, an arm labeled “Home Riots” reaches through the curtains with a torch to ignite a bomb labeled “Anarchy” next to the throne.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-06-08
A gleeful Uncle Sam sits with John Bull, who is a sailor representing England, and six figures representing “Spain,” “Italy” (Umberto I), “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “France,” Germany (William II), and “Russia” (Nicholas II), watching a fireworks display that shows the outline of a huge American battleship that illuminates the ruins of the “Spanish Fleet.” The clouds of smoke show portraits of “Schley, Sampson, Hobson, [and] Dewey.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-07-06
Joseph Gurney Cannon, as the cruel, autocratic Sultan of the Turks, Abdülhamid II, sits on a throne, smoking a hookah labeled “Obstruction,” as two men, in the background, dressed as Turks labeled “Payne” and “Dalzell,” suffer from a chill or other deprivation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-09-30
A crazed man representing the Czar of “Russia” sits on a throne, manipulating marionettes that represent “France” (Felix Faure), “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “Italy” (Umberto I), “Germany” (William II), and “England” (John Bull) playing musical instruments.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-05-05
Theodore Roosevelt meets with William II, the emperor of Germany, Armand Fallières of France, Victor Emmanuel III, the King of Italy, and King Edward VII, of Great Britain. He is being interrupted by a sobbing Republican elephant, imploring him to return home now, especially if he cares at all for the Republican Party. Caption continues: “The bell in the graveyard tolls One; / You said you were coming right home from the wilds as soon as your shooting was done. / Come now! Come n-o-o-w! Oh, Teddy! Dear Teddy! Ifyoucareevenalittlebitforusteddy, Come NOW!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-13
Print shows an upper class British man shaking hands with Richard Croker at an equestrian event.
Caption: Lord Slapbang–I am proud to shake the hand of one of America’s uncrowned kings! / Richard Croker (to himself)–One! I wonder if he thinks there are two of us? Somebody must have been stuffing him about Platt!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-17