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A monkey wearing a military uniform holds a sword labeled “Clan-na-Gael” and a flag that states “No Peaceful Solution! War!” The monkey stands on soil labeled “United States,” looking across the “Atlantic Ocean” at a lion dozing on ground labeled “Great Britain.” At the monkey’s feet is a cup labeled “To Free Ireland,” with a tag that states “Servant Girls Please Contribute.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-23
The Russian Bear sits at a table, carving a large roast beef labeled “Siberian Railway.” Serving pieces on the table are labeled “Enlarged Navy,” “New Spheres of Influence,” and “Better Financial System,” and a bottle of champagne is labeled “Port Arthur Fortification.” On the right, the British Lion labeled “England” is reclining on a small piece of land across a body of water.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-09-21
Print shows the ghost of the British Lion reacting with fear at finding an “Irish American” and a “German American” in a bed labeled “Anti Anglo-American Alliance.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-03
Print shows the British Lion labeled “England” lying in the foreground with a concerned look on its face, while in the background, a man labeled “France” is talking on the telephone to a man labeled “Russia,” offering to pull the Lion’s tail, if Russia will cut the Lion’s head off.
Caption: France (to Russia)–I will pull his tail if you will cut his head off!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-02-22
Print shows the British Lion attempting to put out the flames of a campfire labeled “South African War.” In the background are two figures labeled “Russia” and “France,” holding large pincers, who are pondering the idea of nipping the tail of the British Lion while it is occupied on South Africa.
Caption: The Friendly Foes–Oh! What a lovely chance to pull its tail!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-11-15
Print shows the British Lion, wearing a helmet, circling around Paul Kruger who looks like a South African porcupine, his back covered with bayonets. The Lion finds Kruger unapproachable.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-10-11
The British lion and the Russian bear threaten a turkey dressed as a Turk. Caption: England and Russia, together – “Be my ally, or I’ll give you the worst thrashing you ever had in your life!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-04-22
Print shows Charles Stewart Parnell, a prisoner in the “Kilmainham Kaboose”, directing a pack of small dogs labeled “Healy, Kettle, Egan, O’Connor, Dillon, Davitt, Sexton, [and] Brennan” to attack the British Lion, instead they scatter in all directions. Caption: Mr. Parnell in his great feat of letting loose the dogs of war.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-26
Print shows an oversized British Lion wearing boxing gloves labeled “Army” and “Navy,” standing over its most recent victim labeled “Egyptian.” Trailing off to the left are other victims labeled “Ashantee, Afghan, Boer, [and] Zulu.” Standing on the right is a diminutive Irishman pulling on boxing gloves labeled “Fenian.” Caption: “It is painful to be obliged to use force against the weak.” –Earl Granville in House of Lords.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-07-19
Print shows Samuel S. Cox, Abram S. Hewitt, and William E. Robinson (waving a paper that states “The demands of 20,000,000 Irish-Americans”) pulling on the tail of the British Lion. The front paws of the lion rest on the body of a man with a handgun in one hand and a paper labeled “Assassin O’Donnell” in the other. A gibbet stands in the background. Patrick O’Donnell was executed by hanging in London on December 17, 1883, for the murder of James Carey. Caption: The little men and their little grip on the British Lion.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-12-19
An injured lion, with the face of Ulysses S. Grant, lies on the ground next to a paper that states “An Appeal to the People, U.S. Grant.” Just beyond the lion is a donkey wearing a military uniform labeled “Rosecrans” and kicking up its hind legs. Caption: General Rosecrans, (Dem., of California,) thought that General Grant’s reputation had been exaggerated and misrepresented, and when history came to be written, it would be pared down to very different dimensions. –Debate on the Grant Retirement Bill in the House, Feb. 16th, 1885.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-02-25
Viscount Wolseley attempts to glue the tail labeled “Prestige” onto a weeping British Lion with the aid of British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone who is holding a glue pot labeled “Berber Expedition.” A large, bloody animal trap labeled “Khartoum Trap” and “El Mahdi Patent” is in the foreground.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-02-18
Grover Cleveland is a lion with his paw on a monkey labeled “T. Grady” on top of a rock labeled “Civil Service Reform.” Nearby is a small fire in which are roasting chestnuts labeled “City Spoils, State Spoils, [and] National Spoils Chestnut.” Cleveland is looking over his right shoulder at a group of monkeys in a tree. Among them are John Kelly, Charles A. Dana, Benjamin F. Butler, Henry Ward Beecher, and three monkeys labeled “Dynamiter, Ward Boss, [and] N. Y. Alderman.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-09-03
Uncle Sam, as a lion, is trapped in a net labeled “Lobbyism.” A small rat, identified as “Col. Mulhall,”sits on the ground before him. The U.S. Capitol, in the background, is ensnared by the same net as Uncle Sam.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-07-23
This cartoon shows three heads. On the left is a lion with a shaggy mane; in the center the lion has developed spectacles & large square teeth; on the right the lion has become an unmistakable Theodore Roosevelt with a checked neckerchief and pince-nez.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
This drawing shows a lion charging Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt in Africa. Philip Goodwin was sent by Chas. Scribner’s Sons to make drawings for Theodore Roosevelt’s book that was to be published on his return. Some, including this one, were published in African Game Trails.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910