Masks

President Roosevelt wears a mask and sits at a desk with Secret Service reports. On the wall are “Rogue’s Gallery no. 1–Members of Congress,” a “list of undesirable citizens–Harriman, Rockefeller, Foraker, Haskell, and Tilman,” and a March 1909 calendar. On the other wall is a sign–“Old Sleuth Hawkshaw & Co.: Private Investigations. Shadowing”–and some disguises, including “mollycoddle masks,” “Ananias masks,” “malefactors of great wealth,’ and a coat “for the frivolous judge disguise.” On the ground are “gum shoes” and a “Muck Rake” cat.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-10

On the left is a pile of over-sized items that are used to fill leisure time, such as golf clubs, a shotgun, a football, a riding crop, a theater mask, and a horn, and also a large turkey, celery, cranberries, and a pumpkin. On the right, in the shadow of these material goods, is a diminutive church, dark and possibly empty.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-11-20

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956