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Uncle Sam uses a magnifying glass to see in his left hand a diminutive man labeled “Rumor Monger” yelling “Panic, National Disaster, Failures, [and] Ruin” into a megaphone labeled “Wall Str.” Caption: Uncle Sam — Well! Will this nuisance ever learn that the country governs Wall Street; not Wall Street, the country.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-09-02
Yale professor and university president Arthur Twining Hadley looks through a huge magnifying glass trained on a laborer labeled “Trust Employee.” However, what Hadley sees through the lens is a “Trust Slave” linked by a ball and chain to “Trusts.” On the ground, at Hadley’s feet, is a piece of paper stating “Dangers of trusts and imperialism. Prof. Hadley.”
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-04-03
Uncle Sam holds up binoculars and a magnifying glass that are pointed toward a “Panama Republic” flag to John Bull. Caption: Uncle Sam to John Bull: “Can’t you recognize it?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-15
“Congress” holds a magnifying glass to read the large and tightly rolled “president’s message.” President Roosevelt walks away saying, “Now for the hunt.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-08
Presidential candidates are on display in a gallery for the press. Among the candidates are Jerry Simpson, William A. Peffer, Robert E. Pattison, David B. Hill, James E. Campbell, William C. Whitney, William E. Russell, Adlai E. Stevenson, Levi P. Morton, Robert T. Lincoln, William B. Allison, Thomas B. Reed, William McKinley, and Benjamin Harrison who is standing next to a stack of books and a sign that states, “My Friends Say I Am Not A Candidate.” Down the center of the gallery are several newspaper editors, some with magnifying glasses and telescopes. Among them are Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Dana, Whitelaw Reid, Henry Watterson, Joseph R. Hawley, Murat Halstead, and Evan P. Howell, and an unidentified reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-20
An entomologist holds a magnifying glass and kneels next to a small plant.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-09-19
A man labeled “Hill” holds a large magnifying glass labeled “Democratic Press Magnifier” between a donkey with blinders labeled “N. Y. Democracy” and a tiny shock of hay labeled “Cleveland’s Weak Indorsement.” The donkey is salivating over the large shock of hay labeled “Cleveland’s Indorsement” that it sees through the hand lens.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-10-14
Uncle Sam holds a large magnifying glass labeled “National Vanity” which he is using to examine a battleship flying an American flag labeled “U.S. Navy.” He is also holding papers labeled “Monroe Doctrine.” Caption: Why not look at it with the naked eye?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-05-06